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Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Yoo-foesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by  Larry E Coleman
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
In an attempt to give his thirteen-year-old son dating advice he doesn't want, a stoner dad recounts how he met the kid's mother with way more detail than necessary.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Kievby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2025
It's 1940 and the Wehrmacht sits on one side of Dnieper River and the Red army on the other. A great battle ensues. 6 colorful characters comment including a Polish Jew seen to Buchenwald

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Twas the Night Before The Night Before Christmasby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025
When a wife asks her husband why he no longer likes Christmas, he explains it’s due to its commercialism. However, the real reason is revealed by a simple longing glance at a beloved family photo.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Our Lives Are Goodby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A medieval romance in which the father of three sons and the father of a daughter arrange for the sons to compete for the daughter’s hand in marriage.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Santa Soldierby  David Lee Hooker
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2024
In a future where holiday magic meets military might, seasoned covert operative Santa Soldier embarks on a daring mission to rescue kidnapped children from a local Santa parade, blending festive spirit with combat prowess to reignite the true essence of Christmas

Genre: Family
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Worst of Timesby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
But I never really said, "Let them eat cake." Everything that's happening is not my fault. Too late. The revolution is here. You and your kind are doomed. Marie Antoinette or Melania Trump? You decide.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Improv Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2024
Two lonely improv actors decide to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bump in the Nightby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2025
When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerous—and sinister—than he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Struggling actor Jimmy’s life turns chaotic when he wakes to a scrambled week — days are out of order, and only he seems to notice. Mondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won’t quit. But when he witnesses the same murder three times on one looping Saturday, he must stop it before time skips away for good.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Home Aloneby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
When a car salesman builds a new house to lure his wayward spouse back home, many of his colleagues doubt if it's enough.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Artifactby  Steve Kennison
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2025
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
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Dedicatedby  Lisa Marie Brennan
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Santa Tyroneby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2025
A mall Santa targets three families on Christmas Eve and has murderous plans for each family.

Genre: Horror
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Fireflies or C.S.H.C.?by  Martin Richmond
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
Avoiding certain incineration by the skin of his teeth, a young man basks on a desert isle, reflecting on his survival and the manic, apocalyptic balloon flight he shared with Alfred Hitchcock!

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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She Confused The Tableby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
During a date Angie confuses the table in a restaurant and sits down with another man. But the man does not admit that he is not the one with whom she is on a date because he liked from the beginning.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2025
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
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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
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Lunaby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2024
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 neurotic friend what’s important in the world: simple living, being themselves, and chocolate.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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War Scarlettby  Niagara Ross
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2025
After returning from the war, Scarlett tries to start a new life, but the accidental killing of a drunken bully in a bar sets off a chain of events that forces her to become a soldier again-this time in her own country.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Halfby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025
David has nothing, Kelsey borrows him some money. David buys a lottery ticket. It wins. Now Kelsey comes looking for his money. Two brothers now face each other in a battle of life and death.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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There's Something Behind Door #1by  Andrew Tarquinio
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2024
A young man helps his parents clear the squalid apartment of his recently deceased Aunt, finding more than filth waiting for him in the hoarder’s heaps.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Out of Adversityby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2025
The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
A barrister’s hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Mismatchby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A quirky and neurotic art student, confined to her apartment, must overcome her condition to be with the love of her life.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Mythical Swordby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2024
The legend tells about a mythical sword that gives supernatural power to its owner. Archeologist Adam Prisson and his assistant Leonora have been searching for it for several years, but not only he, but also people who want to use it for evil purposes.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Pumpkin Jackby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2024
A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Entitledby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2025
When a young College female student accuses a male student of breaking into her car, the young woman and the Dean must confront the influential father of the accused young man. The story asks two questions : did he do it? And will the entitled win the day? Mostly interior scenes.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Chucklesby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
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
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Frank Sinatra's Hatby  John McWilliams
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2025
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra’s favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2025
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
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Aisle Browsingby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2024
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
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Detective With Unique Talentby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Christina, an excellent police detective, has a unique talent to feel a murderer in a person and this helps to quickly reveal and catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Echoes of Fateby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2024
An ordinary man receives an enigmatic call from an unknown number, inviting him to solve a series of mysteries to save a stranger's life. But each clue dangerously draws him closer to his own dark past.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025
A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.

Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Antwan, The Christmas Strangerby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
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
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