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She Curses Like a Sailorby  Micheline Birger
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Too crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America off the hook ? (Copyright Wash. DC) A play/ teleplay.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 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
Sweet Punchby  Elizabeth Appell
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
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 Mediterraneanby  Kenneth M. Kielty
The Mediterranean is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy. Set in NYC, a middle level mafia guy stops into an Italian restaurant in the late evening for a drink. The bar is empty except for a bar tender and a beautiful young woman. He falls for her immediately. Her life story is intriguing, but is she real?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 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
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Romance
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Loose Endsby  Adam Rocke
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there's a price on your head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The 7th Soldierby  Evgeny Kim
After escaping a secret soldier program, a man wired with a deadly implant and his loyal dog must fight their way through gangs and assassins in order to finally disappearand live free of pain.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby  Michael Hutchinson
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spider Daddyby  Wayne E. Johnson
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
After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome to Arbor Parkby  Donald Copenhaver
When a real estate developer destroys an ancient tree to build luxury housing, nature takes its revengeroot by root, limb by limb.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby  DJ Robbins
At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A burned-out young man sent to a retreat to "reset his mind" begins to unravel when fellow patients vanish, forcing him into a chilling confrontation with his own darker self.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stinging from betrayal, a fiery young woman pursues gruesome punishment for a cocky young man and his wimpy buddy after she discovers he's shared an intimate photo of her on his group chat. Hell hath no fury, and friendship hath no boundary.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a shadowy leader stands on the edge of powerworshiped by the masses, haunted by their own liesthey must decide: leap into legend or let the herd's blind devotion become their executioner.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Whiskey Glass . . .by  John Porter
A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A writer's reality unravels into a disturbing virtual labyrinth, forcing him to confront the fabricated nature of his existence before he's permanently consumed by the digital abyss.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Luck Be a Ladyby  Elliot Stanton
The gambling bug bites, and the infection spreads. A naïve young Englishman bites off more than he can chew when he attempts to double-cross a brash Texan at a Vegas roulette table.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faster By Nightby  Paul Byrne
Surviving rape and torture in a Russian filtration camp, a Ukrainian female commando pursues her American dream of being a concert violinist, until she crosses paths with the sadistic general who wants to finish their dirty little war.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Devil's Bargainby  Cassandra Wells
When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wolf Riderby  Pelham Mead III
This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Madame Presidentby  Mich
Susie Q. pounds on 'Heaven's Door' demanding to talk to 'The Man' about her becoming the First Woman President of the U.S. Secretly, she wants his blessing.

Genre: Comedy
23 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
Prefer Not To Sayby  Maroun Rached
Three people are challenged about how to tackle gender on their company's website.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby  Jack Halliday
An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby  Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Swampby  Chris Chatzikirlis
In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rescue In Earth's Orbitby  Michael J Volpe
A lone astronaut survives an overdue rescue mission and an impossible spacewalkthen returns to Earth with a truth that cannot be spoken.

Genre: Sci-Fi
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
Prioritiesby  John Porter
A young radio talk show host must choose between solving the problems of the world and attending his son's grammar school play.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From God and Manby  Zach Jansen
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
 
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