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The Seventh Seal Experimentby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

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

Renewalby Darryl N. Layne

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A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.

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

Gone With The Gulf Streamby Jack Sherry

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A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

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

The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby John Porter

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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

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

Sheby Lamar D. Vine

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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

There's Something Wrong with Mariah Janeby Bill Freas

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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

Dead Airby Dwayne Craig Bricker

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A high-school radio crew hijacks an "unused" emergency frequencythen a calm voice begins broadcasting their deaths for tomorrow.

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

Voidby John McCarney

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A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two liveslinked by what they don't say. A two-page micro-short about mental health and unseen scars.

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

Lathroby Aliki Sakallerou-Kokkinou

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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

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

The Villageby Adolpho Phillips

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Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.

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

The Trombone or Modern Romanceby Linda Kampley

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Two college students meet in a cafe, don't really know how to talk to one another, and yet fall in love.

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

Anonymous Sourceby Tim Bechen

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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

The Labby Nancy Kimmel

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Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

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

Little Red Cellsby Ronald L. Ecker

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A boy whose body produces too much blood finds himself held captive by a partying vampire convention, and he must try to escape before their annual Feast of Blood.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Late Night Stayby DJ Robbins

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A weary businessman checks into a hotel with a history of violence, and said hotel is supposed to be extremely haunted.

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

Storytellerby DJ Robbins

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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

Xanadu Shoresby Jay Loish

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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

Leaving Berlin (A True Story)by Ron Brawer

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On her deathbed, a Holocaust survivor recounts her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and reveals a dark family secret -- encountering shocked disbelief.

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

The Haunted Pizzaby Doug J Robbins

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Ginger orders a pizza, and all Hell breaks loose. She winds up getting possessed.

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

Monster in the Toiletby Tim Humphries

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When three partygoers discover their friend has been dragged into a possessed toilet, they're flushed into a grotesque alternate dimension ruled by a foul-mouthed turd demon and must fight their way back before the monster takes them all down the drain.

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

The Magic of Misfitsby Bill Freas

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After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby Elliot Stanton

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A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.

Genre: Comedy
10 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

Trip the Light Fantasticby Bari K. Willerford

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A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!

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

Sinbad and the Last Centaurby Jaime Velez

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SINBAD is trapped in Tritonia, the fabled land of the Centaurs, where he battles a league of evil necromancers in their quest for the Sword of Largunia and the Black Lotus that will yield immense power and immortality. The Prophesy of the Last Centaur.

Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Suspectsby Will Johnson

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A grieving man befriends a mysterious stranger, finding answers to what happened to his deceased wife.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

From the Flamesby Alistair Bryson

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A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

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

Meby John Armond

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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

Necessary Evilby Adam Rocke

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A child must commit an horrific crime to prevent a much greater atrocity from occurring.

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

Guns, Guts, & Gucciby DC Copeland

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A top secret government agency assists a "mature" man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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

Don't Let The Lights Go Outby Bobbie Burgess-Tatum

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A family's secret is about to be unlocked and it just may end the world.

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

Candy Corn and Peppermintby Doug J Robbins

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A killer's MO while dressed as Santa Claus is to pass out a pouch full of candy corn and peppermint.

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

Raven Pointby Jason K. Allen

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Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

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

EXFILby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

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

Bug Boyby J. J. Hillard

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A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

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

Occam's Beardby David Ezell

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A former child star spirals as he becomes convinced that the people he loves most have been replaced by impostors.

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

Selfby Truong Nguyen

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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

Blue Horsesby Paolo Galli

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Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

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