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Double Takeby Marjory E. Leposky
A stalker is following unaware couple.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Xanadu Shoresby Jay Loish
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on
XANADU SHORES.
It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.
Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Digby Jason K. Allen
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby Lisa Marie Brennan
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Selfby Truong Nguyen
The story of a young man living an uninspired life, getting drunk all alone and talking to himself about his life choices.
Genre: Artistic
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby Bernard Mersier
Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby Elliot Stanton
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Behind Door #1by Andrew Tarquinio
A young man helps his parents clear the squalid apartment of his recently deceased Aunt, finding more than filth waiting for him in the hoarder's heaps.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Betty and Booby Patrice Sarath
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Visions in the Haunted Ledgerby Vanessa M. Chattman
A burned-out accountant discovers a haunted ledger that tracks deaths before they happen, and each entry is tied to a cursed candle.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Virgin Brideby Perk Perkins
After a drunken, groom-to-be receives a graphic photo of his fiance with another man, he mails the scandalous pic with all the wedding invites, but discovers the picture was a prank from his best man, leading to a blood-soaked chain reaction.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killergartenby Chris Fell
Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby Elliot Stanton
A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
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
Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Malathor's Wellby Erik Shein
In the quiet town of Willow Creek, eight-year-old Emily Porter discovers an ancient, cursed well hidden deep in the woods. When her innocent wish for happiness unleashes a malevolent force, her family must confront the horrifying price of their dreamsor risk being consumed by the darkness forever.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby Andrew Chisholm
Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man's mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where the Heart Isby Anthony Cawood
The spirit of Christmas must overcome those with hatred in their hearts.
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.
Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sisters of St. Andrewby Vince Grittani
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
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidentby Daniel Genchev Yanev
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Apartmentby Brandi Self
A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can't connect.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Schoolby Bernhard Riedhammer
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fireflies or C.S.H.C.?by Martin Richmond
Avoiding certain incineration by the skin of his teeth, a young man basks on a desert isle, reflecting on his survival and the manic, apocalyptic balloon flight he shared with Alfred Hitchcock!
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheby Lamar D. Vine
After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby Andrea Zastrow
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father's Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sammiby Adam Rocke
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
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith (The Sanctuary Siege)by Dewayne C Bricker
During a chaotic hostage standoff, Pastor Jonas stays behind to talk down a wounded veteran demanding proof that God still listens. Their tense exchange strips away ritual and pride, revealing two broken men searching for grace. When SWAT breaches the doors, Jonas shields the gunman and prays aloud for them bothchoosing compassion over fear in the moment that decides their souls.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tommyby Anthony Cawood
A young graffiti artist decides to tag a war memorial and finds his lack of respect has surprising consequences.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wit's Endby Barry Staff
Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lion in the Carpetby Pelham Mead III
Billy Alton is an 8-year-old boy in 1950 who is stricken with polio. He is put in leg braces and kept at home. Billy begins to see imaginary animals appear in his bathroom, a Lion, a Beaver, an Eagle, and a Wolf who take Billy on journeys to teach him to prepare for the future.
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
2 Plates @ The Endby S.C. Smith
At a Thai restaurant, two mournersone a scarred woman, the other a man who can only communicate through writinggather for a funeral unlike any other, reflecting on the life of an artist whose unfulfilled potential and tragic choices led them all to a brutal conclusion about life's unrelenting cruelty.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tangled Rootsby Deogratias Nyakiki
In a quaint town, Mia, a botanist grappling with her family's hidden history, partners with Ethan, a free-spirited artist, to restore a neglected community garden. As they navigate their growing bond and unearth long-buried secrets, Mia's quest for identity forces her to confront her fears and embrace vulnerability. Their distinct personalitiesher analytical precision clashing with his creative chaosforge a connection that leads to both personal growth and the revitalization of their community, all against a backdrop of both h
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Nothingby Lamar D. Vine
When a grieving retiree installs an AI life coach to escape crushing loneliness after divorce and loss, he must confront buried rage and rediscover purpose through writing before the seductive voice consumes his identityor lose his last chance at redemption.
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Loveeby Kishore kumar
Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.
Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby Andrew Bowen
After they rescue and adopt a lost wolf pup, the mother of a farm family of German Shepherds tells her brood the fantastic story about how one line of wolves descended from the mythical Wolf Goddess Zaila remained wolves and another line joined with man to evolve into dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history forever!
Genre: Fantasy
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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