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Fisherman's Bluesby  Elliot Stanton
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Angling for answers, a fisherman is shocked by his friend's life-changing decision. And what is under the tarpaulin in the back of his car?

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Doorby  Carlos Alex Ceni
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While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Second Windby  Dewayne C Bricker
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Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes "one crease at a time." Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
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Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Misfortuneby  Jason K. Allen
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Two hipsters get more than they bargained for when they break open their fortune cookies. (Surreal horror/comedy. 1 location, limited dialogue.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marais Noirby  Chris Chatzikirlis
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When a toxic stench rises from the swamps of Belle Rive, a remote Louisiana village descends into hallucination, madness, and violenceforcing the last remaining survivor to confront a nightmare that may not be hers alone, but the land's.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
One Last Drinkby  Madison Smith
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Chris becomes overwhelmed with problems in life. His addiction to alcohol finally catches up to him. He decides to join Rehab to face his demons and get his life back.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby  Brandi Self
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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
The Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
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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
Out With The Oldby  Sarah Kennedy
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An older woman's transition to assisted living exposes the callous nature of her son whose obsession with finding a large sum of hidden cash threatens not only his marriage but also his sanity. TOP 10 FINALIST: CinemaStreet Women's Short Screenplay Festival 2023

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
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An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When Animals Killby  Patricia Bruce
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When a long-suffering housewife is the victim of verbal abuse, the family dog, LUCKY, comes up with a surprising and deadly solution.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trouble with Bermudaby  PAUL BYRNE
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Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.

Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
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After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Birthrightby  Michael Hutchinson
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The reborn prodigy of a dark dictator embraces their malevolent Bloodline in a Godless world of magic, beast, and tyranny. None have been worthy to lay claim to the Crimson Throne, until now.

Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby  Lawrence Riggins
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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
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
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When a man's breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aisle Browsingby  Steven Blows
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A run-down man with an active imagination blames his wife for all the wrongs in his life so he searches the aisles of a hardware store in search for the perfect murderous tool.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beatles '74by  Elliot Stanton
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In a parallel 1974 where The Beatles have reunited, two sisters clash over music, memory, and marriage in a single afternoon that may reshape their futures, just as the Fab Four call it quits for good.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
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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
The Boy from Under the Bridgeby  Susan Adair Harris
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He was released from his murder conviction on appeal, but he needed a student tutor to help him graduate high school and evade the drug cartel.

Genre: Romance
14 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: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Jackby  Doug J Robbins
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A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Forest Whispersby  Steven Blows
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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
Animal Loveby  Steven Blows
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A zoologist bets that he can impress his date with unique and enticing stories of love in the animal kingdom.

Genre: Animation
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Strychnineby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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A new strand of STD that displays no symptoms places the country in a state of emergency trying to find a cure.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby  John Porter
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A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Do I Put Up with You?by  John Porter
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A young woman wonders why she puts up with her extremely flawed boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
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With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake Upby  Delaina M. Waldron
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Guests at a funeral home are in for a Wake Up call, when their loving deceased BJ speaks at his own Wake.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
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A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffledMondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won't let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.

Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Gluttonous Zombieby  Grag Raymond
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In two girls are hunted by a ravenous zombie at night time after Mia and Abby use a resurrection spell for fun.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of Tony Rainesby  Doug J Robbins
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An escaped convict confronts a guy he plans on murdering and stealing his Halloween costume.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dog Yearsby  Anthony Cawood
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The barrier guards at the Large Hadron Collider stumble upon a mysterious discovery that forces them to pauseand question everything they thought they knew, if only for a moment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What's Your Emergencyby  Anthony Cawood
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A mobster wakes up buried in a coffin, and that's the least of his problems.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl in the Mistby  Victor Jones
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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
The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby  Ivana Hruba
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P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Fall and Rise of Luciferby  Delaina M. Waldron
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The story of Lucifer the first angel created by God; Lucifer's fall from the heavens and his reason for his rise to becoming the Devil.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sin Eaterby  Anthony Cawood
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A grieving husband hires a sin eater to cleanse the soul of his dear departed wife, a recently executed witch.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby  Mark Wakely
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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
 
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