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The House that Whispersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secrets—and a sinister voice—of its own

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Child Starby  Simon
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2024
When James discovers that his parents secretly uploaded every moment of his childhood to YouTube, amassing a fortune without his knowledge, he embarks on a journey to reclaim his money.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2024
A high school senior, once haunted by mysterious events, is thrust back into a nightmarish realm when a dark figure reemerges, leading him on a perilous journey.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby  Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
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
Smoking loveby  Dimitris Sokolakis
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2024
A group of teenagers in the 90s are sitting in a park while smoking and discussing about their not so promising future. One of them has different worries. The love of his life is about to leave and he hasn't managed yet to reveal his love towards her. Her coming to the park is his last chance to make a move, will he grab it?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Low-Maintenance Organismsby  Gerard Docherty
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
Main character dies and finds himself discussing his life with God. A single scene, one location (with optional brief flashbacks to others) and only two actors. Primarily dialogue based. Short story available free; intentionally written for aspiring filmmakers; minimal set up, one location, two actors, easy to stage. 10-15 mins duration.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Animal Loveby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
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
Mercy Dashby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A Soccer Mom undertakes a midnight mercy dash when she gets an unexpected call, but things aren't quite what they seem.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vengeance Appby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them — but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Happy Endingsby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2023
A pair of financially strapped old-timers on a farm in the Midwest, Eleanor and Bertrand Cornweevil, receive a surprise visit from a man trying to entice them into selling the oil drilling rights to their land. But he's an emissary of Satan and it's really their souls he's hoping for them to sign away.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kindness Coinsby  M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
A budding artist orders a Muse Bot named Camille to inspire him. Little does he know that the more she learns...the harder she is to control.

Genre: Sci-Fi
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Badlandsby  Pamela Schott
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the “perfect” everything — daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society — loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Best Manby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Is there a spinster rule when neither your fiancé nor his newly found brother is the Best Man?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Rare Gemby  Paul Henry Landry
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Late Waitby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023
If listening is so important, then it’s hardly surprising that turning a deaf ear to good advice creates an even greater problem.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2024
Twin sisters Mistyi and Cristi love each other to death and won't let anything come between them. But one sister stands stronger on the motto than the other.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Endless Loveby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
With hopes of getting vengeance, an army major suckers his daughter’s killer into participating in a military experiment involving an erratic timeline-teleportation-chamber, but there is no vengeance to be had only horror.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake Upby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
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
My Weekendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Spending the weekend creating a suicide vest for his young daughter, a disillusioned father has a terrible plan for her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidentby  Daniel Genchev Yanev
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When Animals Killby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
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
On Lineby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Various people blindly line up behind realistic human sculptures to wait for a bus to arrive. When the bus arrives, the sculptures come alive to board the bus. They leave behind all the former live people who have become sculptures.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Salvationby  Anthony Toni
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2024
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
Cyrus Myers: Psychic Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
After killing his father, Cyrus Myers haunts the girl who reject him through her dreams while institutionalized.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Crosses We Bearby  Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 01 May 2024
Stefon and Cin are aspiring "influencers," traveling the US in an effort to create content. Within their fake relationship, they partner to build wealth and fame in any way they can. One stop along the highway serves a dish of karma neither expected.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Beachby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2025
In the near future, euthanasia is legal, and the elderly who continue to clog up the healthcare system are offered a cash incentive to end their lives; one senior takes the cash, has a sudden change of heart, but finds out that that is not an option.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Yell'n'Tellby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After witnessing a girl being bullied, a brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help solve his bullying dilemma. *2024 Best Unproduced Script Brightside Tavern Film Festival; Brightside Festival; Semi Finalist 2023 Dallas Shorts Note: Yell’n’Tell also in French and Spanish – Grita y Dilo*

Genre: Animation
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Escortsby  Kami sadraei
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Struggling to pay for his mother’s hospice care, a down on his luck actor gets dragged into the violent criminal underworld of Los Angeles by getting a job driving 2 escorts.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Quandaryby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A thirty-year-old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it’s another drunken one-night stand until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don’t know how they got there either.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall In Loveby  M SHAHZAIN USMAN SHAMSI
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Secret Santaby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
MARK is a holiday curmudgeon who has a brush with the 'Magic of Christmas' at his family's annual Holiday Party.

Genre: Other
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
A western romance based on O. Henry’s short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth or Deathby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2024
A murdered student returns to the scene of her death to play a final game of truth or dare with the party in her old college room and unleashes her killer to strike again.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Faceby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A killer stalks his family after being let off on a technicality.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An Act of Kindnessby  Georgette B. Skolnick
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2024
A student learns a lesson the hard way in this short feel-good story.

Genre: Family
32 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Campby  Connor Etter
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2024
Three boys at a sleepaway summer camp discover an abandoned, Old West town that is home to a dark spirit with intent on vengeance.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tales of the Macabreby  James Steele Haney
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
On Halloween night, a late-night radio host shares the legend of the Crimson Witch with his listeners, unintentionally summoning her once again.

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