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The impact of phones in the life of couples.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Terror ensues, when a guy hooks up with an online date who is already dead... Or is she?

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cueball & Rickyby  Mary
Two hit men, arguing over how to dispose of their latest victim's body, must change their plans when faced with an unlikely surprise.

Genre: Comedy
5 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
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
Marilyn Comes To Niagara Fallsby  Alan Barkley
A WWII war bride, about to leave her GI husband has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dawn of Arnieby  Jason K. Allen
An awkward, lonely neat freak decides to loosen up, get out of the house and go on a few dates. Unfortunately he has no luck with the ladies -- until he meets the Queen of the Untamed Forest. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Romance
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When I'm Lying In My Bedby  Jared Kelly
Six year old Aaron is very fearful of what lurks underneath his bed - and he has good reason to be scared. Told in ryhyming voice over by Aaron, this creepy one-pager will have your skin crawling and your toes curling. "Sometimes when I'm in my bed, I hear the noise I really dread..."

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Prioritiesby  John Porter
A young radio talk show host must choose between solving the problems of the world and attending his son's grammar school play.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby  Cassandra Wells
Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated. 

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Rainbowby  Vijay Kumar Dammalapati
A neglected boy finds solace in his nanny's love and decades later returns as a doctor to heal the woman who raised him, and himself.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Magical Day at the Dumpby  Frank Vespe
Two sisters' inaugural trip to the Town Dump gets interrupted when a visitor appears out of nowhere and offers help, but his help is foreshadowed by an eerie feeling that something's not right.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Days of Gloryby  Jason K. Allen
A sidewalk shoeshine man touches the life of a hopeless customer. (1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deliver Us Some Evilby  Jerrod D. Brito
Three teens are stalked by a creepy, reclusive neighbor the night before Halloween.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby  Doug J Robbins
Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ancient Secretsby  Wayne E. Johnson
While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby  Jack Halliday
An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Light Traffickingby  Gary A. Edwards
Red Light Traffic - Of three participants in group therapy for juvenile victims of human trafficking, which will be successfully rehabilitated and which will face further tragedy? This is a dark short graphic play about juvenile human trafficking designed to instruct young girls and boys about how to spot and prevent exploitation of children by sexual predators.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
I Will Wait For Youby  Kevin Silva
A legendary lawman separates from the attractive fugitive he's fallen for and attempts to cover up her connection to a mysterious heist.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby  Doug J Robbins
The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Good Conversationby  John Porter
A young psychiatrist struggles to have a good conversation with her boyfriend--and finds it with a patient.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out Of The Rainby  Adrian Milnes
A man takes pity on a woman and her baby sheltering from the rain, but lives to regret it.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lot 2by  Doug J Robbins
Emily take Baby Farts A Lot to show and tell and it creates quite a stink in the classroom.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Timeby  Jason K. Allen
A family of four enjoys a quiet dinner around the table. But mom seems different tonight... (1 location, 4 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The fate of the suitcase stolen by a policeman during a search of a criminal's house. It was hidden, found, changed hands a few times, and ultimately ended up in the possession of a policeman again. Marginal actors: the policeman's girlfriend, her dog, and the neighbor.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spirit Upwellingby  Linda Boroff
Cynical young college girl accompanies her new boyfriend, an aspiring law student, to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his alcoholic mother's birthday dinner and is pulled into family conflicts and secrets dating back a hundred years. Despite her skepticism, she finds love and acceptance within the dilapidated house. Adapted from a prizewinning, anthologized short story. https://www.piltdownreview.com/2018/10/home-like-a-shadow.html Eric Hoffer Competitioni finalist among 2000+ entries and anthologized in Best New

Genre: Family
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby  Niagara Ross
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.

Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shrouded by Shadowby  Hutira Gábor
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Medium of Exchangeby  Steven Blows
When money begins to talk to a frugal cashier, he discovers with extraordinary consequences that he has the power to bend its controlling influence to his will.

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Doorsby  Bar Mandalevy
Traveling through the unfamiliar, a man struggles to hold on to reality as the world around him becomes surreal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Beach Dayby  Derek L. Polen
A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
A former child star struggles with the belief that the people he loves most in the world have been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Moment In Timeby  PAUL BYRNE
A bounty on their heads, a middle eastern woman in D.C. must trust a psychotic D.E.A. agent to save her family from an arms dealer's vendetta despite his claims of loving her in a past life... and he can prove it.

Genre: Action/Adventure
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Beholdby  Steven Burton
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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