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Screens of the Damnedby Anton Ballard

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The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

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

The Tell-Tale Heartby Eric Olson

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A nervous caretaker murders an elderly man to rid himself of the man's hideous "vulture eye," only to be driven toward confession by the relentless sound of a beating heart that no one else can hear.

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

Reflectionsby Dewayne C Bricker

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When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

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

Beauty Beholdby Steven Burton

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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

The Watchersby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.

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

Bearby DeWayne Bricker

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When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Not Yetby Claudia Hoag McGarry

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A couple, preparing to attend his mother's memorial, are bickering and anxious as the viewer or reader slowly understands the subtext they have lost a child.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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

Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby Paul Joseph Mulbrecht

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Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 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

Poet Dancerby Steven Burton

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A female choreographer observes a male stranger with a walking disability and then discovers his musical talent which leads to mutual inspiration.

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

Scarecrowby Doug J Robbins

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Margo cheats on her boyfriend and meets a grizzly demise at the hands of a fake version of the scarecrow killer, but her killers meet the real scarecrow killer, and all hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
4 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

Cold Moon Highby Doug J Robbins

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The dead walk up to the house, zombies and ghosts.

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

Two Gen-Zby Robert Franklin Godwin

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Two disenchanted Gen-Z use the GEEKERS Dating app to meet-up and have a night long conversation walking the neighborhoods of Manhattan.

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

The Junkie's Flawby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 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

My Brother Just Shot Me!by Don Nyambe

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A mother's dark past returns to haunt her when the son she abandoned years ago is shot by his brother.

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

The Cuddly Toyby CARLOS ALEX CENI

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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

Thanks for the Rideby David E Ballard

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An attractive young woman gets a ride from her boss after the office Christmas party and things don't go exactly as planned for either of them.

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

Calling Clementeby Jim B Marcus

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In 1960, two young brothers forge an unlikely relationship with baseball great Roberto Clemente. Now, as adults, they rediscover the bond that shaped their lives long after the final out at Forbes Field.

Genre: Biographical
2 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Vampireby Doug J Robbins

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A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 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

Locked Inby Carl

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When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.

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

Specialby J Treacy Cole

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A bullied boy's resilience is fueled by his grandfather's musical legacy. A true story.

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

The Horned Toadby Loren Davis

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When five advanced AI language models gather to dissect a western screenplay, their debate is upended by the silent presence of a horned toad lizard on the windowsill, forcing them to confront the limits of consciousness, meaning, and their own existence as the world outside quietly decays.

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

Eagle 12by Lamar D. Vine

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In 1991 Panama, still reeling from U.S. invasion, a young Army MP investigator has one explosive weekend to crack a volatile case that spirals from routine call to career-threatening conspiracy, forcing him to navigate military politics, personal loyalty, and the razor-thin line between justice and chaos.

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

Alien Invadedby Dexter Williams

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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

Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne

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After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

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

Refugeeby Doug J Robbins

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A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real. The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.

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

The Deliveryby Dwayne Bricker

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Homesick in her cramped apartment, Lena orders no-contact deliveryjust soup and comfort food. When the app says her driver has "arrived," a safety alert claims he's "concerned for her wellbeing" and needs her to respond. Outside her door, the driver's polite voice turns invasive as he cites her heart rate, moods, and habits pulled from apps and devices, exposing an obsession that won't end when this order is marked "completed."

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

Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford

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After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.

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

White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby Susie Schecter

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Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

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

Mariliseby Ronald V. Micci

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Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Day 11by Adam Rocke

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The six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned, partially destroyed shopping mall.

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Point of Irish Coffeeby Rochelle Potkar

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As his distracted MISTRESS plots revenge on three women who made fun of her over her husband's abandonment, a DOG follows all her hateful emotions that metamorphose him into a worst beast a hateful homo sapien (a man).

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

Sentinelby John Alexander Fraser

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A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

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

Masterworkby Donald Copenhaver

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A tormented artist prepares for his gallery debut by creating the ultimate pieceone that demands a part of himself.

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

Partnersby Nicholas Joseph

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Years after their partnership ended in betrayal, a detective interrogates his former best friend, now a murder suspect, only to uncover a dark, twisted truth rooted in a forbidden love that shattered their lives.

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

Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby Elliot Stanton

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The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

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