Floaters
When an optometrist notices impossible coordination in his patients’ eye floaters, he realizes they aren’t seeing a pattern, they’re becoming one, as the city quietly organizes into an involuntary human migration.
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Steven RaneyWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:Sci-fi, Horror
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Number of Pages:72
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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2026 Spring Horrorhound
Finalist -
Midwest Weidfest
March 19, 2026
Finalist
Steven Raney is a Las Vegas–based screenwriter and professional poker player whose work focuses on characters navigating pressure, identity, and the strange logic of modern systems.
With a background in systems design and years spent studying patterns and behavior, he gravitates toward stories where ordinary everyday life feel bigger, louder, and stranger than expected.
His writing blends grounded emotion with speculative edges, exploring how technology, routine, and belief quietly shape who we become.
Floaters began with something universal, those drifting shapes we all see when we look toward the sky or a bright white wall. They are harmless, mundane, almost forgettable. But they follow us everywhere, suspended in our vision since birth, which is a strange thought once you really sit with it. I became fascinated by the idea that something so common and so familiar could become the source of a quiet global unraveling. Horror often comes from the unknown, but I wanted this story to come from something everyone already knows but never thinks about, mostly because that seemed like a fun way to make people nervous the next time they look at the sky.
My goal was to explore a primal kind of fear, the fear of losing agency not through violence or chaos, but through calm certainty. What happens when the world does not scream as it ends? What if the apocalypse shows up without drama, without explosions, without anyone even raising their voice?
