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Ice-Cold Revengeby  Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
House for Saleby  John Porter
A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Short Waitby  Art D'Alessandro
Harry, 41, nearly runs another driver off the interstate, as he angles his classic BMW onto a downtown ramp toward the bus station. Dad's coming in and Harry hopes he's not late. Can't bear late or waiting. But when the old man shows up finally, Harry learns a big old life lesson about time.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Storytellerby  DJ Robbins
A storyteller pays for his hotel room with three supernatural storiestwo supernatural horror stories about love, lust, and violence, and one supernatural love story.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occult Markby  Doug J Robbins
Fictional YouTube star Occult Mark buys a haunted doll from eBay and quietly begins to mesh with the doll, not knowing where he ends and the doll begins.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On a deserted strip of highway, a young slacker with no ambitions in life meets a beautiful hitchhiker with everything to prove, and she may have just found what she needs for her recipe for success.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
2 Heart Shuffleby  Bernard Mersier
Sitting on opposite sides of the bathroom door, Laura and Rodney confront their deepest insecurities and unspoken boundaries, ultimately deciding whether emotional vulnerability or possessive fear will dictate the future of their relationship.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fueled by a bad breakup, two best friends create a Podcast where scorned women compete to tell the worst man-hating story, until a shocking confession derails their man-hating mission and challenges their definition of love.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
By the Seaby  Tina Field Howe
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
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvationonly to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 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
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
Dragomir and the Ieleby  camelia dinu
While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Real Spaghettiby  Richard Bruce Stirling
After being released from a South American prison, Spaghetti - the world's most famous poet - unexpectedly shows up at the door of kindergarten-teacher Mary, who has been trying to free him all these years.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Lily Sanders
A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gagging For Itby  Barry Staff
A budding mute and blind standup needs to get through an audition to prove the act will work.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Great Pancake Recordby  Jeffrey Massie
[Based on a short story by Owen Johnson] At a private boarding school in the year 1905, John Smeed sets out to make a name for himself.

Genre: Comedy
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Anonymous Sourceby  Tim Bechen
A relentless female journalist battles powerful adversaries in a male-dominated industry as she risks everything to get the story and ensure justice.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime & Punishment 2121by  Jim Norman
By 2121, the entire judicial system has been scrapped in favor of an AI controlled system. Punishment is unique, including the requirement of serving the sentence in the past. In this case, the Wild West.

Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blessings of the Yellow Ringby  Danny King
When a well-meaning priest shares the inspirational story behind his treasured yellow ring, an outrageous revelation transforms a moving testimony into a deliciously awkward comedy of misplaced faith.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby  Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
In his garage, a retired robotics engineer builds a conscious robot he calls Dennis, then has to fight to save both their lives when a lovely enforcer from an 'agency' arrives to erase them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 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
Not a Creature Was Stirringby  Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Wrong with Mariah Janeby  Bill Freas
After two preteen sisters come upon an unsettling find in the attic of their new home, the younger girl grows ill as her family enters the most terrifying night of their lives.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Affectionate spoof of coming attraction previews. Movie trailers with a wink and a smile. I can smell the popcorn.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Detective and the Priestby  Jan Clinton Chilson
The Lead Detective of a police department, at the directions of the Chief, is assigned a priest, in assist in successfully solving crimes.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You Can Never Go Backby  Lamar D. Vine
A lonely divorced introvert rekindles a forbidden affair with his unhappily married first love after 25 years apart, embarking on steamy weekend getaways filled with nostalgia and desire, but as their passionate escapes unravel into betrayal, deceit, and profound heartbreak, he must confront the painful illusion of second chances to ultimately forge a path of solitary freedom, nomadic travel, and self-reinvention abroad as a writer.

Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Driver Sevenby  Elliot Stanton
A vintage car appears like an irresistible purchase, but at what real cost? An unassuming man is convinced to buy a pristine classic car from a mysterious seller. Even though the car is beautiful, it hides a dark and deadly secret that it soon unleashes on its new owner.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Do Unto Othersby  Joe Leone
An elderly woman and a middle-aged business banker form a bond based on mutual respect and the "golden rule." One good deed leads to another in this feel-good drama about living the golden rule. A chance encounter of two kindred spirits leads to enlightenment and realization of purpose as they lean upon one another for strength and support in their hour of need.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
07.07.77by  Serge Mirov
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
The Woodcutterby  Raymond Reboulet
A young man believes and an old man remembers the reasons behind the ways of old which the village has forgotten. A child in danger awakens the town and renews its purpose.

Genre: Family
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When You Go to Townby  Susan Jordan
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
When a nervous stranger ducks into a rundown dive bar to hide from his past, a cold and relentless hitwoman walks in behind him. As the tension breaks into violence, the bartender and a foul-mouthed parrot become the only survivors in a night that goes completely off the rails.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
 
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