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A late-night radio host takes a caller's cheating-girlfriend rant as entertainment until he claims she's locked in his car boot. Checking Find My Phone, Lexi realises the signal is in the station car park and "Dolly" is her wife. Live on air, the caller blames Lexi's past relationship advice for destroying his life and demands she feel the same loss. Lexi must keep him talking long enough to save Ronnie without hiding behind the jokes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between Detroit and Toledoby  Sonny James Traylor
In a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she finds herself on the run with a half-million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby  Carl
When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby  Bill Cornelius
After surviving a near fatal car crash, two friends find that neither is what they appear to be and a mysterious corporation hopes to keep it a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
An image-obsessed actor is bitten by a snake while staging a publicity-friendly hiking trip, then spends what may be his final minutes rehearsing the perfect deathbed message instead of confronting the life he actually lived.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
A former child star spirals as he becomes convinced that the people he loves most have been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Killer Partyby  Dwayne Bricker
On Halloween night, three friends follow a mysterious invitation to an isolated mansion expecting a partybut find themselves trapped inside a surveillance nightmare. As unseen forces manipulate sound, space, and fear itself, paranoia turns deadly and each girl is pushed to her breaking point. When the final survivor realizes the horror is being watched for entertainment, she must fight to keep control of her mindor become the final act in a twisted performance.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby  DJ Robbins
At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother's Gavelby  Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Is a Rollercoaster...Sometimesby  Elliot Stanton
With its ups and downs, they say life is a roller-coaster, except when you're trapped and unable to get off one. When an engaged couple becomes unwitting prisoners at the apex of a broken-down roller-coaster ride, the metaphor is never more (or less) apt.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life to being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to face an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Generous Hostby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
In a twisted tale of digital deception, a loving couple's date night spirals into terror when a vengeful brother exposes the boyfriend's secret online scam exploiting his girlfriend's image, ending in a ruthless home invasion and fatal betrayals.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Silver Starby  Leonard Varasano
Haunted by the death of a young child during his watch, a police officer contemplates vengeance against the suspect he holds responsible.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dream Worldby  KS PUNITHAKUMAR
A compassionate village school teacher dreams of a world without caste, hunger, hatred, or division. Inspired by that vision, he returns to reality determined to teach humanity to his students, believing that lasting change begins with the next generation.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Pixie Detectiveby  Larry A. Jaggard
A little tomboy pixie detective discovers that her black cat possesses some unusual qualities after she accidentally uncovers an illicit operation taking place at the abandoned shipyard adjacent to her home.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Amish Countryby  Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The House on the Hillby  Maddie Peterson
A college student with a class project begins investigating a local myth, opening a world of mystery.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas at the Orpheumby  Todd Bronson
On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby  Dexter Williams
A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
How Do You Get to Margie's House?by  John Porter
With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out On A Limbby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An amputee Vet has volunteered for a program that promises her hope. But the new tech has opened up more than just hope, and the creatures that can now see her have already eaten her phantom limbs and hunger for more.

Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty in the Ringby  Jessica Taylor
An injured MMA fighter on the brink of losing everything crosses paths with a broken ballet dancer recovering from a violent assault. Together they discover strength, redemption, and love as she trains to fight in the ring and he learns how to fight for her heart.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Margo cheats on her boyfriend and meets a grizzly demise at the hands of a fake version of the scarecrow killer, but her killers meet the real scarecrow killer, and all hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A "dirty laundry specialist" can be a great asset at a lawsuit settlement conference.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In 1991 Panama, still reeling from U.S. invasion, a young Army MP investigator has one explosive weekend to crack a volatile case that spirals from routine call to career-threatening conspiracy, forcing him to navigate military politics, personal loyalty, and the razor-thin line between justice and chaos.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunter Withinby  Lamar D. Vine
When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A couple in bed after making love, perfect! Except when the man and woman verbally communicate, fireworks.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby  Michael Hutchinson
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Split Second Decisionby  Michael G Holmes
A flood of increasingly distracted thoughts race through a shallow good Samaritan's mind as he prepares to intervene in a grocery-store armed robberyor so he thinks.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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