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Fear Of Fallingby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A driven EMT takes a rescue call during a deadly storm. The tortured angel he finds in the old man's shed won't be his most life-changing discovery. -- multiple Finalists

Genre: Horror
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nuptualsby  Barry Staff
Wanting to consummate her marriage to a much older man, a virginal bride pushing 40 needs to cope when things go disastrously wrong.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On The Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Talk about self sabotage -- these 2 gals are the best! When searching for love and relationships, they lack caring and empathy. It takes a humorous, over-the-hill, overweight Mom who outsmarts her attractive, millennial daughters to successfully find romance.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Smallest Lieby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
When Blake discovers Darrell is married, he must confront the devastating consequences of betrayal while fighting to reclaim his health, identity, and ability to trust in the aftermath of deception.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Good Tasteby  Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby  Elliot Stanton
The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Hard Topby  Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby  Iris Mangual
After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Tears of Aphroditeby  Peter J Bartels
As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
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
When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

Genre: Horror
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spinning in Infinityby  Joshua Corin
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
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
Exit Stage Leftby  Elliot Stanton
Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Should Have Stayed Homeby  Michael Angelella
I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME is a drama/comedy about a desperate film director who stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean and threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him complete creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tragedy strikes a group of young friends when the high school misfit introduces them to a risky new game called Switch.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ten Minutesby  Dwayne Bricker
In the last ten minutes of his life, 67-year-old Elias lies alone in a hospital room as reality, memory, and hallucination blur. Hospital sounds become echoes of an ordinary life: a missed bus in the rain, a daughter's slipping hand, a wife he disappointed. Younger versions of himself and his late wife appear, confronting a lifetime of regret as Elias makes one final, quiet choice.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby  Deogratias Nyakiki
Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby  Victor Jones
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Calling Clementeby  Jim B Marcus
In 1960, two young brothers forge an unlikely relationship with baseball great Roberto Clemente. Now, as adults, they rediscover the bond that shaped their lives long after the final out at Forbes Field.

Genre: Biographical
2 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doppelgangerby  John M Grace
A chance subway encounter with the twin of a woman from his past turns a brief commute into an emotional reckoning.

Genre: Romance
5 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
The Sacrficeby  DJ Robbins
Colin loses his son and wishes he could switch places with his deceased son after a car accident, and death may grant Colin's wish.

Genre: Drama
3 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
His Last Mistakeby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Slurring through the dark on a desolate stretch of highway, a heavily intoxicated young man pulls his car onto the shoulder to relieve himself, unknowingly desecrating a roadside memorialonly to awaken a malevolent, vengeful spirit that slips into his idling car to violently torment him to death, stealing both his flesh and soul.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby  Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea's Worldby  Christopher Andre
When a troubled teenage girl moves with her family to a mysterious treatment facility in Boulder, Colorado, disturbing insect-like changes begin surfacing inside her. At the same time, a watching doctor quietly pushes her mind toward something far more dangerous.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Space Orphansby  Vahid Imani
A rogue pilot crash lands on a new world and becomes the first human to encounter alien intelligence igniting a battle between military survival tactics, ethical restraint, and his unresolved past with the ship's chief medical officer.

Genre: Sci-Fi
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby  Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shoplifterby  Sarah Kennedy
Rural vigilantes misappropriate justice when they accost a man suspected of shoplifting at the local convenience store.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Turn Aroundby  Doug J Robbins
A serial killer sneaks into a woman's house, and we relive a woman's day as a school teacher.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Mediterraneanby  Kenneth M. Kielty
The Mediterranean is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy. Set in NYC, a middle level mafia guy stops into an Italian restaurant in the late evening for a drink. The bar is empty except for a bar tender and a beautiful young woman. He falls for her immediately. Her life story is intriguing, but is she real?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Distractionsby  Bob Messinger
Similar backgrounds, different visions. David's and Hannah's lives are about to be upended as he gets in her cab on a Friday evening.

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