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The Sin Binderby Rob Drusetta

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A determined dead woman, stuck in limbo, seeks to release her twin sister from the garden gnome prison by negotiating with the librarian Sin Binder that placed her there for her sins.

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

By the Seaby Tina Field Howe

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Clever Brandi, English heir to a fortune, frames her husband in the murder of her mother, the family matriarch.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

No Witnessesby Juli Henry

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In a near future where hospice patients' final moments are recorded and sold to their families, a veteran nurse risks her career by granting a dying woman one last request: the right to die in private.

Genre: Sci-Fi
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Pawnsby Adam Rocke

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The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Andrea and Jackby Christopher Andre

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Inside a reconstructed town built from her fractured memories, Andrea confronts her dead brother Jack and discovers that the truth of his death and the mysterious force attached to him may be far more dangerous than the guilt that brought her there.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Doc's Barby Kenneth M. Kielty

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Doc's Bar is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy Two young men who were childhood friends make plans to meet up in a midtown NYC bar. One friend is Jewish, in his third-year residency, and broke. His friend is an antisemitic Wall Street broker who is rich. The young doctor sets his buddy up with a Russian doctor who is studying for her medical license. Both need money and the stockbroker the solution!

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

When You Go to Townby Susan Jordan

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A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

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

The Three Lines of Zailaby Andrew Bowen APR

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In this legendary tale of love and courage, the matriarch of a farm family of German Shepherds amazes her brood with the astonishing story of how one line of wolves that descended from the mythical Wolf Goddess Zaila remained wolves, and the other line evolved into dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history forever. The Three Lines of Zaila is also a 56-page illustrated paperback adapted from the script.

Genre: Animation
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Ouroborosby Benjamin Fields

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When an LA Fire dispatcher receives a mysterious call from the remote cabin where her lover vanished, she races back to find answers. But what she discovers is that some mysteries cannot be resolved and some cycles cannot be broken.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Sisters of St. Andrewby Vince Grittani

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On the eighteenth hole of a golf course, a wily rabbi, a competitive priest, and two mischievous nuns collide in a battle of faith, guilt, and golf when one sister tries to secretly fulfill her late father's outrageous dying wishspreading his ashes in the sand trap.

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

Sick Bloodby Stan Usherenko

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When two brothers revisit the imprisoned father who tortured them as kids, they're pulled into a deadly new game one designed to prove that his sickness runs in their blood. SICK BLOOD is a visceral, emotionally charged horror-thriller about generational trauma, the inheritance of evil, and the terrifying question what if the monster you fear most is part of you?

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

07.07.77by Serge Mirov

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After a first, accidental night together in the summer of 1977, a still slightly drunk, naked young man slips out of his sleeping girlfriend's room to find a toilet, only to get lost in a labyrinthine Soviet communal apartment where every encounter threatens to expose him.

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

Catharsisby Rochelle Potkar

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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 Substitutionby Dwayne Craig Bricker

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During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.

Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Spider Daddyby Wayne E. Johnson

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An eleven-year-old boy, fixated on horror comics and monsters, finds that his recurring nightmares become reality with devastating results for his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and, ultimately, for him.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Christmas Carnageby Doug J Robbins

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The Christmas Killer, Henry Clay, stalks Allyson on Christmas Eve, leaving carnage in his wake.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Shiftby Gladman

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A manipulative therapist accused of murdering his patient uses his final interrogation to expose evidence of a deeper conspiracyforcing his unseen interrogators to confront the possibility that he may be the key witness, not the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sakoby Tigran Vardanyan

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On a stormy night in a remote mountain gorge, a lone shepherd is hunted by ancient spirits who lure the living with music, memory, and madnessforcing him to confront whether the horrors chasing him are supernatural... or already inside him.

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

The Next Voiceby Charles Hall

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Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Interviewby Michael G Holmes

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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

Hankby Baerbel Morsch

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Days before retirement, a veteran detective takes on one last cold case a 32-year-old unsolved murder with a dying witness who finally wants to talk.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sweet Punchby Elizabeth Appell

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An urchin from the streets and huge fan has a dream that if the champion boxer fights tonight, he will kill his opponent. The champ has had the same dream. The boy fails to convince the Champ not to fight. The fight goes on and a lethal left hook fulfills the dream.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Chillby Bari K. Willerford

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Five people isolated at the Arctic Circle. Three scientists, a meteorologist and a chopper pilot all have to contend with a monster outside the compound wanting to get in, another monster already inside.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Only the Windby DJ Robbins

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Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.

Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Maybe Tomorrowby Mary Kay LaBrie

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Set against the gentle rhythms of a Florida retirement community, a daughter learns that waiting for the right moment can mean missing it entirely.

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

Scarecrowby Doug J Robbins

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Trick or treaters think a scarecrow is just a Halloween Decoration, until they find out that its machete really can cut 'em up.

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

Synnoiaby J. H. Allely

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After a devastating accident leaves his wife in a coma, a grieving man accepts an experimental technology that preserves her consciousness inside him. But as their minds become inseparable, love, guilt and identity begin to blur, forcing him to confront whether keeping someone alive can become another form of imprisonment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Game of Thrones: In East L.A.by Adam Rocke

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On a crazy So Cal road trip, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen take a wrong turn and wind up in East L.A. where they run afoul of a notorious Mexican street gang. Violence is coming!

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Lenaby Jason Allen

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While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Last Nightby Durgesh Devda

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One argument. One reckless decision. One irreversible night. When a young couple's confrontation takes a terrifying turn, hidden truths emerge, blurring the line between guilt, responsibility, and fate, and forcing them to confront consequences they cannot escape.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Dutchess Greenby Joseph Brown

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The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Kissby Mary Goldman

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Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

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

Once Blue Now Dead Redby Darryl N. Layne

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Mankind has always wondered what happened to our sister planet Mars or as it once was called "Seti". Dak, Band, and Mika environmental scientists is facing a severe environmental crisis. They work tirelessly to save Seti with help from AI android "Guardian". With time running out for Seti, they build a spaceship to migrate to a blue planet we now call Earth. Their desperate attempt lead to a desperate surprising end leading into part two "Spores ".

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by Ron Brawer

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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Mercyby Michael Morra

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A ten-year-old cancer patient must fight for her life when she's hospitalized with pneumonia and is stalked by a supernatural entity that's intent on killing her.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Standoffby Linda Gould

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A filmmaker, hauled before a government tribunal and accused of making a subversive film, defends herself with the help of a loyal publicist who protects her boss by rewriting the screenplay's ending on the spot.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

From God and Manby Zach Jansen

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Assigned to a desolate outpost, a young soldier must choose between his moral compass and his superior's twisted sense of divine duty when it comes the execution of questionable orders.

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

Clella (Pathways Of The Heart)by Diane Yates

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In the Ozark Mountains, a selfless woman of indomitable spirit shoulders the weight of the Great Depression, raising six children and tending the farm while her husband turns to drinking, gambling, and womanizing. When he abandons her, a mysterious guitar player arrives on the scene, and she must choose between loyalty to her past and a possible new future. (Based on a true story.)

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Miraclesby Paul Sokal

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A young, naive parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican's Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he's told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Rebirth Morgueby Wilson Espinal

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After a young boy vanishes under impossible circumstances, a trio of paranormal operatives employed by a covert morgue uncover a deadly spirit and wage war against the supernatural forces preying on the living.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles