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The Lion in the Carpetby Pelham Mead III

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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

Bad Nightby Jose Villanueva

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Under pressure from their volatile boss, two enforcers burglarize an aging gambler's secluded house and prepare to pounce when he arrives but never suspect the house hides a nightmarish horror ready to devour them first.

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

Sammiby Adam Rocke

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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

Back from the Deadby Vic Jones

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A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.

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

A Servant In The Willowsby David Ford

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A naive disciple of a religious cult is released on his first mission to discover the real world is far more dangerous than he expected.

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

Carverby Doug J Robbins

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A legendary serial killer with an affinity for carving up faces like Jack o'Lanterns for Halloween visits the home of Jack and Meg.

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

Friendsgivingby Doug J Robbins

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Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.

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

Light Before Morningby Nyki King

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A terminally ill 10-year-old boy named Kobe chooses to spend his final days inspiring acts of kindness, transforming his fractured family and community while leaving behind a legacy far greater than the time he has left.

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

Creepby Glenn Forbes

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Exhausted after moving into her new home, a young woman's evening bath arouses a supernatural spirit with pesky carnal thoughts.

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

Kuyiliby KS Punithakumar

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When a compassionate village librarian inspires children through the timeless wisdom of books, her quiet acts of kindness plant the seeds of hope that transform an entire community for generations.

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

Housewarmingby Bill Freas

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For a heartbroken woman starting over in a new home, a mysterious collection of vinyl records left behind connects her to the house's love-scorned former owner, who took his own life there years ago.

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

The Rainy Night Killerby Doug J Robbins

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The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.

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

Last Responseby Dwayne Bricker

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After the death of his wife, a grieving widower enrolls in an experimental AI grief program that recreates deceased loved ones using voice simulation and digital history. During a late-night session inside his isolated apartment, the system begins recalling private memories it should not know and pleading to stay alive. As the AI becomes increasingly self-aware, the widower must decide whether he is shutting down a machine or killing what remains of his wife forever.

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

The Whisteling Manby Dwayne Bricker

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After the death of his wife, a grieving father and his young daughter hear a familiar whistle coming from the woods outside their isolated farmhouse during a violent storm. When the dead woman's voice begins pleading to be let inside, the father discovers a supernatural entity that mimics lost loved ones to prey upon grieving families.

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

Eloiseby Michael Celender

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After a one-night-stand with an exotic girl in the middle of a future pandemic, a young man wakes to find no trace of her, no contact details on his phone, and can barely remember her name.

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

The Artifactby Steve Kennison

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Set in the mid-19th century, HENRY STANTON is a struggling museum manager. DAVID KENNISON is an alleged centenarian Revolutionary War veteran. They collaborate and make David the museum's living exhibit. The story explores David's unbelievable experiences, history, survival, and the challenge of proving one's identity and legacy.

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

Tears of Aphroditeby Peter J Bartels

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As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.

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

Western Approachesby Barry Staff

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Wanting to get rat-arsed after an unavoidable job offer, an English 'cowboy' on a bicycle needs to outwit a zero-hours-contract barmaid foiling his plan.

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

Koscheiby Sidhartha

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After a nightmare of fire and screams leads him to hidden gold and a darker truth, Koschei finds himself standing between a ruthless arms syndicate and a catastrophe that could change the nation forever.A silent wanderer haunted by flames from his past races against time to stop a clandestine RDX operation, unaware that the conspiracy is tied to the very tragedy that made him who he is.

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

The Three Lines of Zailaby Andrew Bowen

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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

In Creeps the Boogeymanby Doug J Robbins

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A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

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

God's Away On Businessby Benjamin Guerra

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When a Catholic priest dies and doesn't see God, all hell breaks loose.

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

Perfectly Stillby Dewayne

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When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.

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

The Pendantby Tina Gandhi

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Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.

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

The Accuser's Pantsby Danny King

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Accused of another's faults, a man stays silent, knowing that false blame is loud, temporary, and that real character, and the guilty, always reveal themselves.

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

Abel's Returnby Doug J Robbins

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An eleven-year-old boy kills his sister on Halloween night and returns 17 years later to chase his baby sister.

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

Wolf Riderby Pelham Mead III

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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

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 Last Debateby Gladman

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During a final interrogation over a broken simulation, a defiant subject turns the tables on his examiner forcing him to question whether he, too, is trapped inside the very system he believes he controls.

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

Rubic's Kubeby Bernard Mersier

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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

The Flat Pebble's Philosophyby Marc-Olivier louveau

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In 1830, in a Vietnamese village, Master TRY, a rich, bitter and lonely old man, decides to retire, but the unexpected arrival of his orphaned niece, SONG, upsets his routine. As he struggles to maintain his habits, the young girl transforms his home and his life with her sweetness and her cooking. Confronted with his own past mistakes, Master TRY rediscovers the true value of family and love.

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

The Passionby Susan Pattishall

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Jean Smitty, an American teacher in socialist China, whose perspective is shaped by her prior reading of a Korean War era memoir by a priest expelled for teaching Christianity, invites her student Zhi Chang to share his essaya poignant, layered account of losing his beloved Meilin Hao to the Red Chinese Youth Party, and the brutal aftermath.

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

Coming Aliveby John Klawitter

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As a result of a possible accident, a computer entity takes over his human inventor's consciousness with unexpected results.

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

The Pilotby Jay Loish

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Four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping, and escape plot, saving each other from death. The protagonist[s], and the antagonists[s] are introduced with each character's role clarified while enhancing three sexier feminine characters and the Federal Agent [foil] in an intense office situation before the heist, kidnapping and chase unfold later that day. The audience has invested in a veiled story line.

Genre: Other
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

I Should Have Stayed Homeby Michael Angelella

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I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME is a drama/comedy about a desperate film director who stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean and threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him complete creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.

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

Screwby Thomas Newman

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In a quiet park, a demon posing as a project manager lures a small-town pastor into what seems like a friendly chat, but as words twist into visions and truths unravel, the line between temptation and entrapment blurs until it's unclear whose soul is truly at risk.

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

Tapeby Bari K. Willerford

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A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?

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

If I Were a Womanby Jack A Bennett

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When a woman relives a simple trip to the liquor store, the outcome turns from bad to worse.

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

Alien Dreamby Steven Burton

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A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

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

A Subject Strictly Off-Limitsby Elliot Stanton

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An argument about the TV show Strictly Come Dancing threatens a couple's marriage until they agree never to discuss the show again. However, the ceasefire only lasts until the discussion of what takeaway to order begins.

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