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Nightmare Clownsby  Doug J Robbins
Nightmares of an evil clown haunt a woman, and he might just be real.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a devastating accident leaves his wife in a coma, a grieving man accepts an experimental technology that preserves her consciousness inside him. But as their minds become inseparable, love, guilt and identity begin to blur, forcing him to confront whether keeping someone alive can become another form of imprisonment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Frank Sinatra's Hatby  John McWilliams
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On Time Delayby  Melvin Taylor
Overly rude airline passenger can't board flight only to find a strange carrier for a flight he will never forget.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Accuser's Pantsby  Danny King
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
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby  Elliot Stanton
Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by  Larry E Coleman
Before his first scooter date, a father tells his 13-year-old son how he met his mother at a bar and goes into way too much detail.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The California Lifeby  Arianna Zufelt
When a young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, a rookie detective must race against time to find her before she becomes his next victim. When the rookie detective finally finds the young girl. He called her parents that he has her in the police station safe and sound and ready to go home now. 20 years later the girl moved to California and got a job. And she lived her life there.

Genre: Animation
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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
When a newly wed couple are invited to two separate bachelor and bachelorette parties, things go awry sparking a perfect union in this drama/comedy.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime & Punishment 2121by  Jim Norman
By 2121, the entire judicial system has been scrapped in favor of an AI controlled system. Punishment is unique, including the requirement of serving the sentence in the past. In this case, the Wild West.

Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Problem With Moon Menby  Robert M. Tartell
A female astronaut's chance encounter with a space alien gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Love Triangle."

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kissby  Mary Goldman
Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A veteran 911 dispatcher, haunted by a past death on a notorious rural highway, takes a desperate midnight call from a young woman lost in a white‑out blizzard. With no units available and Route 7 officially closed, she breaks protocol, kills the recorder, and drives into the storm herself, risking her career and possible charges to find the girlforcing her to decide how far she'll go to truly "stay on the line."

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Doorsby  Barry Staff
Three 'remainers' congregate in a deserted pub and there contemplate whether the news that a meteorite will shortly destroy Earth is a hoax, but also to undertake their final acts in case it's true.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl in the Mistby  Victor Jones
A girl finds herself in an alien land. She has to survive from her basic instincts until she meets a fisherman who shares a secret with her of his visits to a misty beach where strange friends abound.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby  Larry E. Coleman
A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.

Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick to Deathby  Elliot Stanton
A sleepless hospital patient driven to distraction by heat, noise, and a relentlessly demanding neighbour begins to question his sanityonly to discover that the silent old man beside him has secretly found the peace and comfort he desperately craves.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Tenantby  Carl
A young couple moves into a cheap suburban rental and discovers the former tenant is still inside the wallsalong with a stolen child's identityforcing them into a terrifying "lease" of rules, confessions, and sacrifice as they race to outsmart the house's contract before it claims one of them as the next permanent occupant.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby  Abdelouahab Hammoudi
"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert Godwin
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A programmer's digital world turns sentient and steals his consciousnessforcing him to battle his own creation before the simulation takes his place.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Boundsby  Adam Rocke
The Women's National Petunia Golf Tour has mediocre players, terrible prize money and a serial killer.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Light Before Morningby  Nyki King
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
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Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Until Death Do Us Partby  Frank Fusco
A devoted Catholic Eucharistic Minister marries a woman who shares his faith, but when his inability to understand her need for respect begins to erode their marriage, he must confront the gap between serving at the altar and loving at home.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
My Angel Friendsby  Pelham Mead III
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 Perfect Neighborhoodby  Melissa Catena
After suburban mom, Gretchen, disappears, her neighbor, Anna, gathers a group of women to launch a neighborhood watch. As Anna gets to know them better, she discovers Gretchen's disappearance may be tied to the secretive spiritual circle Gretchen and the other women belong to. Anna befriends them so she can uncover the truth, but as she gets pulled in deeper, she begins to question her own safety.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fingerby  Brian Jackson
After a severed finger appears on a grimy coffee table, three mismatched roommates spiral into suspicion that ends in a fatal misfireonly for an interrogation to reveal the cruelest joke of all.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby  Michael Celender
After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A tormented artist prepares for his gallery debut by creating the ultimate pieceone that demands a part of himself.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

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