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Spinning in Infinityby  Joshua Corin
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2025
After a brutal battle leaves their starship crippled and life support failing, four crew members debate whether they are real or merely simulations — and must decide whether to keep fighting for survival or sacrifice themselves to save the ‘real’ people their existence was designed to protect.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder Inkby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2024
After witnessing her tattooist father murdered, his orphaned daughter uses his dying gift to payback his killers in a uniquely creative way.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dawn of Arnieby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An awkward, lonely neat freak decides to loosen up, get out of the house and go on a few dates. Unfortunately he has no luck with the ladies -- until he meets the Queen of the Untamed Forest. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder By Chairliftby  Ken Hauser
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
When a young woman is left on a chairlift overnight in a minus 60 windchill, a Deputy must shovel through the bullshit from four suspects to find the killer.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Madam Lucindaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Unfortunately, he is Madam Lucinda's first ever customer and things don't go quite as planned. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 characters.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Moonshineby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
In this Southern gothic noir a moonshine guzzling sheriff is on the case to find his missing wife, but all he finds is the werewolf that plagues his dry little county.

Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby  Ryan Armstrong
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Conversionby  Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvation—only 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
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
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: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Weekendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Spending the weekend creating a suicide vest for his young daughter, a disillusioned father has a terrible plan for her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Prefer Not To Sayby  Maroun Rached
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025
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
Dolce, Fraud Relationshipsby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
Three women share a similar tale of being in a relationship for the wrong reasons, but refuse to leave the lifestyle.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Weddings, But a Funeralby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Being in the right place but at the wrong time changes the fortune of a serial chancer. Tim Harcourt’s bravado and white lies present the widow of a crime family with everything she needs to make him their latest client – a fact Tim is blissfully unaware of.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tommyby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2024
A young graffiti artist decides to tag a war memorial and finds his lack of respect has surprising consequences.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
MEGAby  Tina Field Howe
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2025
A working man confesses to his best friend that his frustrating years of depending on the lottery to bring him fortune are over.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Adriftby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
After a yacht capsizes during a sudden storm, a lone survivor records her final hours aboard a half-sunken vessel, sending video logs to anyone who might find them. As night falls, she notices distant lights beneath the waves—moving in patterns too deliberate to be natural. With her oxygen fading and rescue signals unanswered, she realizes she isn’t alone on the ocean—and that what’s watching her is waiting for her to drown.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When COVID Cameby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After COVID arrives, in silence, a woman living alone copes by isolating, masking, and eventually being vaccinated after which she is only then able to welcome others into her home. Music accompanies her actions and the only line of dialogue occurs at the films end when she welcomes her grandson and his girlfriend into her home. *Dallas Shorts 2023 Semi Finalist*

Genre: Artistic
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From Rat to Bossby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
“From Rat to Boss”—Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, "Lucky" Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himself—an act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025
A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beside meby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2024
When Ethan shares an innocent drink with his unsuspecting friend Conner about the corruption in their drug business, he hints around the reason why he really invited Conner over for drinks, with a deadly ultimatum.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Soldierby  David Lee Hooker
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2025
The story follows a secret military unit sworn to protect Christmas. When terrorists target a small-town Santa parade to kidnap children, this elite squad has to go undercover — in full holiday gear — to save the kids and stop the chaos before Christmas is canceled.

Genre: Action/Adventure
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Unbelongerby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Jackby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2024
A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pol Pot & the Khmer Rougeby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2025
Pol Pot is tutored by Mao. He forms the Khmer rouge & Overruns Cambodia. He kills 2 million countrymen by pickaxe & starvation. The US invades during the Viet Nam war, then the North Vietnamese take over the country. Pol Pot retires to the countryside & dies a natural death.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Where Toe Beginby  Clifford Shepherd
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missing—with no pain or explanation—he spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
God's Libraryby  Charenelle Jean Williams
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2025
Three strangers at a bus stop unknowingly become the focus of a celestial mission, where angels battle time and temptation to save their souls before it’s too late.

Genre: Other
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Pumpkinsby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
Halloween comes only once a year, but not everyone is happy about this. In fact, several pumpkins are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. (Horror/comedy)

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It Was Only Yesterdayby  Nathan M. Scrivens
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
A boy attempts to get his mother to smile again after her father's passing.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2025
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
A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sometimes it Stares Backby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2024
An obsessive codebreaker solving Cicada 3301 uncovers a forgotten Mayan god’s secret, risking the release of an ancient evil.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Grand Offerby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Ashcroft’s plan to bribe his loyal groundskeeper Tom into murdering his wife backfires, leading to a deadly twist where both men end up dead.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly scheme—and poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trouble with Bermudaby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.

Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennis 2.0by  Peter Donald Skagen
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2025
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
 
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