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Sentinelby John Alexander Fraser
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: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby Brandi Self
Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bodyguard. 2. Going Homeby Anthony Toni
After over 30 years working as a Bodyguard you're now approaching 65. You now realize you can't move as fast as you once did. Nor can you see and hear as well. One more BIG job before you call it quits? Fiction but based on a real life job assignment.
Genre: Action/Adventure
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby Marc Prey
While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby Brandi Self
A frustrated writer struggles to work while being belittled by a belligerent drunk woman who wants to relive the past.
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Attackby Jackie Bateman
A cardiologist falls for a heart attack patient, who turns out to be an anxious man who has accidentally swallowed the diamond ring intended for his high maintenance girlfriend.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Portrait of a Girlby Niagara Ross
A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mesmerizedby Mike Bevins
Love can be dangerous. *Winner-Best Short Entry, New York Script Awards.
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sisters of St. Andrewby Vince Grittani
On the eighteenth hole of a golf course, a wily rabbi, a competitive priest, and two mischievous nuns collide in a battle of faith, guilt, and golf when one sister tries to secretly fulfill her late father's outrageous dying wishspreading his ashes in the sand trap.
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
La Fuente (The Fountain)by Marjory E. Leposky
Two children meet at a fountain.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Painted Vengeanceby Simon Parker
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoesby Helen Watson
When public condemnation of a well-known author results in online outrage, cancellations ripple through association.
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby Grag Raymond
Nick works as a security guard in a jewelry store during his break he is relaxing in a local cafe when a pretty girl approaches him to get to know him but it was a deception she joins a crime group to commit a robbery.
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 Creepby Dj Robbins
A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Job for Tenderfootsby Jason K. Allen
Four notorious hit men show up at the same place, brought together by a mysterious cowboy who gives them an unusual mission. (Drama/Comedy/Crime. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby Mark Wakely
A young student's affair with his teacher makes him an outcast at his middle school.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The City: A Tragedy in Three Actsby Larry Shannon
The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
Genre: Drama
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby DJ Robbins
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
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Morning Walk With the Killerby Grag Raymond
Emma meets a man during a morning run, eventually she learns about his terrible crimes against his ex-women who are found dead.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Salvationby Anthony Toni
The World is on the verge of Nuclear War. This is the story of two men who will fight to the death for their way of life to endure.
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blessed by the Heavensby Simon Parker
When a gifted singer, Laura, captures the attention of a music producer while singing for church donations in the park, Father Dan, desperate to keep her voice for the church, takes drastic measures to prevent her from leaving, leading to an intense struggle between faith and ambition.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Grannyby Ange Fassinou
A female army veteran takes back gun to avenge her grandson.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Will Wait For Youby Kevin Silva
A legendary lawman separates from the attractive fugitive he's fallen for and attempts to cover up her connection to a mysterious heist.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby John Porter
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.
Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Deadliest Jobby Jed Power
A female courier delivering mob cash at a deserted train station is confronted by a stranger who demands half, but as motives unravel, the exchange becomes a deadly game of deception and survival.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Comeuppanceby Martin Train Bartlett
After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim.
It's Source Code meets Stephen King.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A long Road Aheadby Bernhard Riedhammer
A trailblazing transgender woman, stranded in the middle of nowhere, must hitch a ride with an opinionated retiree in order to stop her ex from leaving the country with their son.
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wholeby Susan Adair Harris
An unhappily married bi-racial couple falls into an inter-dimension where their fates are shuffled between love and murder.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Simonby Shelly Paino
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders on Halloween, she must find out why one student's interest in the poem borders on obsession.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby Robert Michael Benn
DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Moors: The Freedom Fightersby Tirrell J. Paxton
During Medieval Spain, a tyrannical King holds hostage a debutante from a noble family. A Jewish ally flees and evades knights to inform her father of his daughter's predicament. The Jewish crusader and Count seek military assistance from the Moors in North Africa to liberate the debutante and Spain from oppressive Gothic Rule!
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan, The Christmas Strangerby Ange Fassinou
Inspired from true events. The destiny of a little boy, victim of abuse, changes when he unexpectedly meets a good-hearted woman on the day before Christmas.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 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
Night Classby Ajokubi Miracle
A junkie teenage girl must expose the illegal drugging of students by the schoolteacher before there's a next victim.
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Forest Whispersby Steven Blows
A Granddaughter aids their Grandfather in listening to the hearts of trees in the hope of finding the final message from his passed wife, her Grandmother.
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pair of Brown Oxfords in the Middle Grey Boothby Charles Webb
I hadn't really noticed it until I zipped up my pants.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elderly Influencerby Eric Faulkner
As they both coupe with the tragic loss of loved ones, a social media crazed grandmother is forced to adopt her introverted Gothic, Emo, granddaughter in a high stakes game of virtual versus real life experiences.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ghomeedaby Aya Mheidly
In their quest for safety as undocumented refugees, Wissam, Hadi, and Jamil find refuge in an apartment. Wissam uses the game of hide and seek to protect Hadi's innocence while teaching vital evasion skills. But when ICE agents intrude, their bond is tested. Despite the turmoil, they hold onto hope, showing the strength of the human spirit
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Conceptionby Anthony Cawood
The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
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