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Maggieby RJ Daniels

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A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.

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

K!ll!n T!m£by F!N

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A Scottish schizophrenic armed with a ticking time bomb is forced to rob his own bank in a race against the clock!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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

Cleopatra's Revengeby Robert M. Tartell

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A snake's loose in Mike Turner's new home and his wife Pam is really freaking out!

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Jasper + Mimi Foreverby Jason K. Allen

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Two freakish outcasts - a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis - are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

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

Los-T (In) Angelesby Noureddine HIFAD

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A desperate aspiring writer and a struggling actress fake their way into a Hollywood party, where one stolen opportunity could either launch their dreamsor expose them completely.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 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

Kill Pillby Stan Usherenko

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A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.

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

From God and Manby Zach Jansen

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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

It's Your Lucky Dayby Elliot Stanton

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Vic Prince thinks he has struck lucky when he turns a £25 diamond ring into £1,500, but his gambling habit quickly turns his windfall into a catalogue of disasters, landing him in court, out of work and doing community service for the very woman he cheated.

Genre: Comedy
37 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart

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An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

To Die Laughingby Robert M. Tartell

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A woman's video cosplay fantasies go hard on her male co-stars.

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

The Legacyby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

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

Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby Elliot Stanton

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Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory about his wife's infidelity is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner's theory that Clive is an idiot.

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

Black Girls Are Differentby Rocco Simonelli

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BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Firewoodby Gary A. Edwards

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FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Man Possessedby Donald Copenhaver

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After being passed over for promotion, a bitter office worker's online rage transforms into something physical, consuming him and everyone around him.

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

Niagara 1952by Alan Barkley

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An unhappy WW2 war bride, about to leave her 'GI Joe' husband, has a life-changing encounter with Marillyn Monroe who is filming "Niagara" on location.

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

Infectedby Doug J Robbins

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Officer Nick is a lone wolf and refuses to work with a partner, but warms up to his partner while everyone deals with a few rogue zombies.

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

Screens of the Damnedby Anton Ballard

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The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

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

Out of Timeby Deanne Gittens

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A young woman struggles to understand why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to a ringing cell phone and mysterious voices just outside her window.

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

The Static Roomby Dwayne Bricker

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A cynical podcast host who prides himself on debunking the supernatural receives a mysterious package of cassette tapes that begin predicting his actions with unsettling accuracy. As he follows their instructions, reality distorts, leading him into a motel room that shouldn't existone that reshapes itself based on his attention. Trapped inside a loop of his own voice, he realizes escape may depend on confronting the connection he's spent his life avoiding.

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

Dragomir and the Ieleby camelia dinu

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While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.

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

Driver Sevenby Elliot Stanton

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A vintage car appears like an irresistible purchase, but at what real cost? An unassuming man is convinced to buy a pristine classic car from a mysterious seller. Even though the car is beautiful, it hides a dark and deadly secret that it soon unleashes on its new owner.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Third Knockby Dewayne

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After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

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

Confessionby Adam Rocke

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Asking for forgiveness is never easy, and some sins simply cannot be forgiven.

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

My Angel Friendsby Pelham Mead III

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Tom Sizer is a college student who was driving on Meadowbrook Parkway when he had an accident with his car. When he is about to die the Archangel Michael decides to keep him alive. After Tom recovers, Michael tells him he is to be a human advisor to the angels in special situations and his adventures begin.

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

The Language of Silenceby KS Punithakumar

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A lonely mute man falls in love with a woman he has only known through messages. When he finally reveals his silence, tragedy strikes before they can meet, teaching him that true love is heard through the heart, not through words.

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

Sunnyby Matthew Thompson

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A devoted mother leads a precarious double life within the illicit massage industry, battling a predatory debt to ensure the survival of the family she hasn't seen in years.

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

CareMoreby Michael Avishai

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A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

A Slice of Romanceby Jack Sherry

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In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.

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

Watergate First Time Ever Revealedby R. E. Payne

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Inteliligence officer Gus Payne, 30, hired 1970 with guarantee of quick rise to vice president of subsidiary owned by Uniroyal, Inc.learns immediately he must do whatever is necessary to take false expenses for cash to secretly donate to President Nixon for forthcoming reelection in 1972. This must be done being told promises from highest level of campaign are promising that saves the company.

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

Feeding Frenzyby Philip Marraccini

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After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

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

Claim Ticketby Perk Perkins

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When a curmudgeonly widower discovers a twelve-year-old shoe repair ticket in his junk drawer, he embarks on a reluctant journey to reclaim the final errand his late wife ever ran.

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

Sentinelby John Alexander Fraser

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A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

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

Bed Bugsby Dwayne Bricker

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In a perfectly preserved 100-year-old house, two young siblings spend their first night in a grand antique bedroom. After their parents recite, "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite," the children are tormented by vivid, escalating encounters with swarming bed bugs that then become gigantic and vanish when the lights come on. By morning, their parents discover the horrors were real: nothing remains but shredded sheets and two small skeletons.

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

Waxedby Pamela Schott

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A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.

Genre: Drama
16 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

Boxing Dayby Doug J Robbins

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A crazed killer, Mrs. Claus, hunts down a mother and son on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas.

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