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Have A Little Faithby Lloyd Muchenje
Having struggled to conceive for years,a praying woman finally gets pregnant only to lose her unborn child and uterus during a premature delivery. Years later, she miraculously conceives through an ectopic pregnancy and goes to give birth to a healthy baby without medical complications.
Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Transferenceby Frazer Lee
Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Edgeby John M Grace
A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Scarecrowby Doug J Robbins
Trick or treaters think a scarecrow is just a Halloween Decoration, until they find out that its machete really can cut 'em up.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Do Unto Othersby Joe Leone
An elderly woman and a middle-aged business banker form a bond based on mutual respect and the "golden rule."
One good deed leads to another in this feel-good drama about living the golden rule. A chance encounter of two kindred spirits leads to enlightenment and realization of purpose as they lean upon one another for strength and support in their hour of need.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stairwaysby Dewayne C Bricker
When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.
Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fairytale Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III
Tom Wolf is thrown into the Bedlam Mental hospital in the early 1800s in London, England for being drunk. He tells the doctors that is is a wolf and they laugh at him. He then tells stories of three pigs whom he sold houses to and a young girl named Red Riding Hood and finally a Russian named Peter. The doctors punish Tom each time.
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wish You Were Hereby Steffany Sommers
A pair of boardwalk souvenir sunglasses takes a leap of faith to find adventure off the rack.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Into The Fogby Rade Mileusnic
After years of estrangement from their son, an elderly couple's cross-country drive through a dense, unsettling fog forces them to confront fading memories and a shared tragedy they can no longer outrun.
Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby Elliot Stanton
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other's company significantly more than seemed possible.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Whisteling Manby Dwayne Bricker
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
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From the Flamesby Alistair Bryson
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
MEGAby Tina Field Howe
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
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby Cephra Stuart
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Singularityby Peter Donald Skagen
A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Marxby Barry Staff
Re-materialising today in mutual haunt Soho, London, Groucho Marx and Karl Marx find both want capitalism finally laughed into oblivion, but as they conflict over methods to use, they try to locate the one place where Karl was listened to before.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby John Porter
A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Her Faceby Marc Prey
Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Artifactby Steve Kennison
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
Genre: Biographical
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Labby Nancy Kimmel
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
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not the Brightest Guy in the Worldby John Porter
A hard-working, middled-aged plumber admits that he's not the brightest guy in the world, then struggles to understand why his middle-aged lady is happy one minute, sad the next, and mad the next
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Powers and Principalitiesby James K. Cole
Two angels are sent on assignment to earth to enlist a high school teacher, who has just lost his wife and is angry at God, to help fight the powers of darkness in his school.
Genre: Sci-Fi
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Happy Endingsby Ronald V. Micci
A pair of financially strapped old-timers on a farm in the Midwest, Eleanor and Bertrand Cornweevil, receive a surprise visit from a man trying to entice them into selling the oil drilling rights to their land. But it's really their souls he's after.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Belowby Dewayne C Bricker
A marine biologist battles to survive when her dive partner mutates after a deep-sea octopus biterevealing an alien species preparing to rise from the oceans and reclaim Earth.
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Attack of the Church Furnitureby David McPete
A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Higher Educationby Candy Fox
A college professor tries everything - including an exaggerated strip club dance - to get her zoned out, laptop focused students to pay attention, but to no avail.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sanctuary Rowby Lamar D. Vine
In the gritty underbelly of 1983 Las Vegas, a rebellious teen battles addiction, underground rock scenes, and haunting family secrets in a desperate quest for identity, forcing him to break free from destructive cycles and forge a path of raw self-redemption.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Secret Boxby Charles Hall
A mechanic finds an unlikely confidant in his annoying Gen Z neighbor as he tries to come to terms with the sudden death of his girlfriend and her young son.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How The Pimp Saved Christmasby Doug J Robbins
A pimp and his three prostitutes sub in for Santa Claus when the big man has a cold one Christmas Eve.
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Paradeby William Douglas
Can a 10-year-old boy steal an unhappy elephant, find him a good home, fall in love and get his first kiss, all in one week?
Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Little Red Cellsby Ronald L. Ecker
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
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Beat of Your Own Drumby Judah Ray
In a black-and-white world, Iris, a struggling singer, and David, an eccentric drummer, find solace in their own musical pursuits until their paths cross, igniting a harmonious connection that brings color to their lives.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick Bloodby Stan Usherenko
When two brothers revisit the imprisoned father who tortured them as kids, they're pulled into a deadly new game one designed to prove that his sickness runs in their blood.
SICK BLOOD is a visceral, emotionally charged horror-thriller about generational trauma, the inheritance of evil, and the terrifying question what if the monster you fear most is part of you?
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dateby Doug J Robbins
A ventriloquist goes on a blind speed date and fails miserably with the first date, but eventually meets his match in a lady puppeteer.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Carrie, Walter, and Garboby Steven Burton
A man sits alone in an empty theatre to wait for a Greta Garbo film to begin, and then a female stranger, sits next to him. Confrontation ignites; technical problems delay the screening, humor, and then this couple share surprise revelations.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Villageby Adolpho Phillips
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
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Another Time, Another Placeby Bob Messinger
Past and present collide in the world of a young White House staffer.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
War Scarlettby Niagara Ross
After returning from the war, Scarlett tries to start a new life, but the accidental killing of a drunken bully in a bar sets off a chain of events that forces her to become a soldier again-this time in her own country.
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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