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The Dawn of Aesopby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
A chronic sleepwalker awakens in his pajamas deep in the woods. While trying to find his way home, he stumbles upon a secret "State of the Universe" picnic attended by Jesus, Satan, Mother Nature, the U.S. President, Santa Claus and a special guest from another planet. * (1 location. See IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
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No Job for Tenderfootsby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Four notorious hit men unexpectedly end up at the same place, brought together by a mysterious cowboy who gives them an unusual mission. * (Crime Drama/Comedy. 2 locations. Award-winning screenwriter & journalist; see IMDB for my credits.)

Genre: Drama
18 pages
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Madam Lucindaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Instead, he learns about his strange fate consisting of hunchbacks, dungeons and werewolves. * (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter & journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
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The Rhinoby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
When businessman Ronald takes a seat on a park bench, he simply wishes to enjoy his lunch in peace. But when his banana rings like a phone, he answers it and receives a message that turns his life upside down. (Surreal comic fantasy. Award-winning screenwriter; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
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Lunches with Lelandby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (Award-winning screenwriter & journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits)

Genre: Drama
12 pages
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The Urbanitesby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Four hipsters pack their lunch and excitedly head into the woods for their first ever picnic. Unfortunately, it all goes very, very wrong. (1 location. Award-winning screenwriter & journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
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The Big Digby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. (Award-winning screenwriter & journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
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Hellavisionby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and watch a horror movie on television. But he accidentally pushes the wrong button on the remote -- and visits the wrong channel at the wrong time. (Award-winning journalist & screenwriter; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Rubyby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019
When a lonely old man visits his beloved wife's grave for the first time, he encounters a charming little girl who lifts him out of his doldrums and fills him with hope. (Award-winning journalist & screenwriter; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Moon Xby  John P. Warren
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2019
A group of three astronauts discover a city on the moon from an alternate dimension and are forced to decipher real-life truth from alternative truth. This script is has received a CONSIDER grade from Scriptreaderpro.com

Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bobby Takes The Trainby  Jeffrey Lodge
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2019
A young boy has resigned to the severe disappointment that he would have the worst summer ever. However, against all the odds, on the journey to his dream summer, he experiences life in a different dimension when he rides the train for the first time.

Genre: Other
3 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Queen Eby  Barbara Daniel
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019
Comedy: Her three daughters are shocked when progressive, strong-willed EMMA opposes her daughter SAPHIRA's wedding to a woman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Queen Eby  Barbara Daniel
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019
Her three daughters are shocked when progressive, strong-willed EMMA opposes her daughter SAPHIRA's wedding to a woman.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dear Sisterby  NG
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019
The best love story ever.

Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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N.D.E.by  Jean Galliano
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2019
After being shot while breaking into someone’s home, a Teen Addict has a Near Death Experience [N.D.E.] where he is confronted by a Demon and then by the Lord.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Ship Sails Fastby  Liisa Evastina
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2019
Romantic comedy from a perspective of a transgender woman navigating the dating life in West Hollywood.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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To live beyond his meansby  Fujio Torikai
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2019
A lonely, mixed-raced young man takes a test in order to win a life of luxury. He must compete against the successor to the throne and a NASA astronaut. He is successful in passing the test, but it turns out to be a trap set up by a secret international organization.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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THE SHIKSEH AND THE SHOFAR BLOWERby  Joyce Davison
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2019
Forbidden love between a non religious Serf and an Orthodox Jew, heals them from their early childhood traumas only to lead to their deaths. From their graves in the Jewish Pale, now a part of Russia, they dance until separated by a moonbeam, grieving for the child they left behind, who in the end redeems them when he comes to their graves and blows the shofar.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Fast Handsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2019
A once great boxing champion returns to the ring in order to give his only child the kind of wedding he thinks she should have.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The REAL Star Odyssey 2by  BRIAN C BAER
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2019
When die-hard fans of the cult movie STAR ODYSSEY despise its new sequel, they abduct its star and force him to film a new one. MISERY for the GAMERGATE generation

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Stayby  Sean Nash
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2019
Unable to cope with the prospect of his two sons watching him gradually succumb to cancer as his wife did a young, widowed surfer paddles out alone at night to suicide. As he sinks ever deeper beneath the waves his connection with his late beloved becomes more focused, allowing him to re-evaluate not only the gifts inherent in her passing, but the importance of not denying his boys the sharing of similar gifts from himself.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Babyby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2019
A new mother who wishes she never had her child is met by an evil demon who offers her the chance for that wish to come true.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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How The Other Half Liveby  Michael E Kitlas
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2019
What happens when a man, down on his luck, takes "people watching" on the train a little too far?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Simonby  Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2019
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders, she must find out why one student’s interest in the poem borders on obsession.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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STASISby  Alexis Giannoulis
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2019
A group of friends is having a nearly-fatal accident coming back from a wedding in a remote location. Trying to find help they end up at a roadside motel where the keeper, Jack, informs them that things are not as they seem and that they must reveal a secret in order to find their way back.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Dateby  Jody Ellis
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2019
A woman accepts an invitation of a first date with a man she meets online, only to find it's not what she expected.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Musclemenby  D. Anthony Cooper
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2019
Two criminals take a job that they think will be the biggest score they've ever come across. Then, they find out the job is robbing a well known crime boss of a multi million dollar organization whose wife happens to be a woman one of them is sleeping with.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Wordsby  Erick Torres
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2019
Alejandro, a mute, learns his first love, Timothy, has returned to their hometown after 30 years. Overcome with nostalgia, Alejandro is faced with a decision to either confront Timothy and possibly relive old memories, or allow time to distance them further. (Scriptapalooza 2019 Semifinalist)

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
38 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Result #29
Billyby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2019
A twisted take on how dolls can become protectors to children that are being abused.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Result #30
Lunaby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019
An imaginative little girl won’t speak, but she does have a plan, and in the course of a day shows her exhausted mum and wine-soaked friend what’s important in the world: simple living, being themselves, and chocolate, because in her view they’re bothering with all the wrong things.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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For the Takeby  Simon
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019
A new father scared that he's not good enough to be a father or husband, turns to crime for money only to have his life saved by the ghost of the old woman he helped mug and leave for dead.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Blisteredby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019
A young woman lives in isolation on a desolate farm, consumed with remorse from a long-ago fire she sparked that killed her sister, battling with her state of mind and in perpetual torment as the phantoms of her past burn brightly.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Avenging Ladies of Essexby  Cheryl White
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
John Wayne-loving Emily Blacksmith sets out on her trusty mobility scooter to blow up her mortal enemy after her nephew loses his car in a rigged gambling game.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Roller Coasterby  Emanuel Nisan
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
A financially desperate father must find a way to entertain his son without him discovering his secret.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Board Gamesby  Emanuel Nisan
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
A doctor strives to help his sickly grandfather remember his past.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Result #36
Baby Blunderby  Emanuel Nisan
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
A wealthy man attempts to cut the line at a butcher shop in order to race back to his unattended baby in the car.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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She's Giftedby  Emanuel Nisan
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
After receiving a harrowing reading from a young fortune teller, a revered director seeks to avoid his fate at all costs.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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TAMBOURINE MANby  Michael Sollenberger
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019
A lonely and abused boy desperately longs to escape a dysfunctional sadistic family and the stranglehold of the dark underbelly of small town America.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Result #39
The Walletby  Shaun Graham
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2019
A greedy man finds a wallet that conjures up free money. He uses technology to speed up the magic but in the end pays a high price for his impatience. (12 page, comedic ‘Twilight Zone’ style story)

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Digestifby  J.J. Hillard
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2019
An enigmatic woman, subjugated by a terrorist organization, employs her own unique technique to access classified information from an uncooperative federal legislator.

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