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Candy, Girl Reporterby  Linda Gould
Candy, a young journalist, is interviewed on a talk show to promote a book she wrote about a campus rock band. She'd fallen in love with the lead guitarist, Preston, but suffered heartbreak when her flaky roommate, Josephine, lured him away. She has taken revenge by implicating Josephine in a campus bombing and exposing her and Preston as liars.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fear Of Fallingby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A driven EMT takes a rescue call during a deadly storm. The tortured angel he finds in the old man's shed won't be his most life-changing discovery. -- multiple Finalists

Genre: Horror
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tears of Aphroditeby  Peter J Bartels
As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Jumperby  Patrick McNamara
A scrappy rock'n'roller about to report for bail, discovers he can't afford his clothing store purchases and tries to steal them, until his change room cubicle is flooded with blood and he must leave without being noticed.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
A Man Possessedby  Donald Copenhaver
After being passed over for promotion, a bitter office worker's online rage transforms into something physical, consuming him and everyone around him.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lady In The Wallby  Renata Vaughn
After the devastating loss of her infant, a grieving woman battling undiagnosed postpartum depression spirals into a psychological nightmare as her husband's infidelity blurs the line between reality, paranoia, and a dangerous search for the truth.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby  Cephra Stuart
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Home Like a Shadowby  Linda Boroff
Adapted from award-winning, anthologized short story https://www.piltdownreview.com/2018/10/home-like-a-shadow.html Worldly, cynical college girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his alcoholic mother's birthday party in a "Grapes of Wrath" town in the baking San Joaquin Valley and finds herself drawn into family conflicts and memories dating back a hundred years and more. To her surprise she finds belonging and acceptance amidst the drinking, gambling, and a violent 2 a.m. free-for-all.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Who Said Penis?by  Adam Rocke
Thanksgiving dinner at a swanky Bel Air mansion comes with roast turkey and all the trimmings, plus an anatomy lesson from a 7-year-old.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After a dream about a burnt down home near the Air BnB he is staying at compels him to investigate, an Atheist strives to find out what caused the fire and learns that his beliefs may be misguided.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Koscheiby  Sidhartha
After a nightmare of fire and screams leads him to hidden gold and a darker truth, Koschei finds himself standing between a ruthless arms syndicate and a catastrophe that could change the nation forever.A silent wanderer haunted by flames from his past races against time to stop a clandestine RDX operation, unaware that the conspiracy is tied to the very tragedy that made him who he is.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacreby  Doug J Robbins
When Danny is followed home by a strange man in a mask, he thinks it's a harmless Halloween prank, but he soon finds out that the man has sinister intentions.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rumor Has Itby  Paul Weidknecht
A phone stolen at work leads a woman to understanding her capabilities and, even, her future.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Restaurant: A Visual Comedyby  Jackie
When his pizza takes too long to arrive, a young man takes matters into his own hands

Genre: Comedy
1-4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stay Warmby  Steven Burton
A man with his young son, offer comfort to a homeless man which also provides a break from their grief for the recent death of Mary, a beloved wife and mother.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Unaware she's half alien, a young woman experiences everything about anyone with one touch, which puts her life in danger and at risk for extermination by those who fear her kind.

Genre: Sci-Fi
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Screamersby  Chris Lewis
A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Padres e Hijosby  John Porter
A young Latino learns to thank his father for having loved him enough to stay alive.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Valentine Promiseby  Philip Marraccini
Love That Triumphs Over Tragedy. Rena Patel, from India, navigates the pressures of a medical career and the complexities of unspoken love. After a devastating cycling accident leaves his close friend Jenna paralyzed, Rena is torn between his professional duty and his growing personal feelings for Jenna who faces physical loss and heartbreak, Rena must to control his emotional boundaries with his hopes for her recovery.

Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two WOMEN shoplifters brainstorm elaborately with dramatic rehearsal about returning their loot (a pair of stolen earrings), imagining how the SHOPKEEPER would forgive them and how the media would celebrate them for their honesty. Then after feeling satiated with this drill, they end up into inaction and status quo.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cuddly Toyby  CARLOS ALEX CENI
The life of a handicapped guy takes a dramatic turn when he looks out the window and spots a cuddly toy next to a wheelie bin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Not?by  Steven Blows
A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Interviewby  Michael G Holmes
On the morning of an important interview, a bitter corporate lifer kills time with imagined self-sabotage, petty distractions, and fantasies of escape.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marcus and his Snowmanby  DJ Robbins
Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Incarnationsby  Bob Messinger
A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Butt Crack Innby  Kenneth M. Kielty
Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kicking Tiresby  Tony Jerris
When a pragmatic dreamer meets an angelic stranger, he realizes that even the most skeptical hearts sometimes need to kick the tires on love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Degreeby  Barry Staff
Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby  John Porter
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America don't want to go along with the marriage their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Groomerby  Bob Messinger
Can one person bring down a professional child trafficker simply by getting into his head? This brutally honest, day-in-the-life story of a "groomer" challenges us to see the depths of his depravity and feel the pain of those he leaves behind.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A battle‑scarred warrior in a storm‑torn medieval world finally confronts the two‑headed dragon that symbolizes his greatest failure, rescuing the woman he once abandoned and inspiring a terrified village to step out from behind locked doors. When the camera pulls back to reveal the adventure as a video game played by two modern boys, the story becomes a meta fable about fear, courage, and the everyday "dragons" we choose to faceor avoid.

Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Officer Nick is a lone wolf and refuses to work with a partner, but warms up to his partner while everyone deals with a few rogue zombies.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feeding Frenzyby  Philip Marraccini
After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
 
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