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Result #241
When Next We Danceby  Donna M Tiberio
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
A young woman in love through the years, in denial, runs from its consequences only to find it that love is to be an impossible dream. Is love so elusive that it can never be captured? A lasting love holds no boundary's in just how far she will go. This is.in fact the story of how powerful an emotion true love can be. This short story is digitated to the love I hold.so dear.

Genre: Romance
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #242
Dark Day For Hitmanby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
A hitman wakes up in an unknown hotel after a wild night with a girl and a lot of drugs.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #243
Cursed Dollby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
9-year-old Lizzie brings home a doll that she finds near an old house when she returns from school, but over time she realizes after several deaths that she doll is not simple, it is possessed by evil.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #244
Resurrection Of The Vampireby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
Four followers of vampires are in a cave where a powerful bloodthirsty vampire was buried many centuries ago, but they will not be able to survive because for him they are just food.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #245
Rolling Silverwareby  Ryan Armstrong
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
Servers at a restaurant try to get through their Thursday shifts without much drama, but are interrupted by those seeking a way out of the most menial tasks.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #246
Perchance to Dreamby  James Austin McCormick
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2023
A dead soldier follows the light at the end of the tunnel but discovers his own personal afterlife is nothing he could have imagined.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #247
Dollar Store, Yesby  Alex Radocha
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2023
A melancholic professor’s bizarre transaction with a dollar store cashier stirs up memories of a tangled romance between her and a student.

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #248
Entitledby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2023
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
Result #249
Hostage Makeoverby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2023
Taken hostage by two bank robbing gunman, unlucky Julian is going to use the tense negotiations with the police as an opportunity to refurnish his home.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #250
Normalby  Jesson Kinder
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2023
A helicopter mom struggles with her son’s burgeoning independence and his troubling secret...

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #251
'Twas The Night Before The Night Before Christmasby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2023
When a wife asks her husband why he no longer likes Christmas, he explains it’s due to its commercialism. However, his 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
Result #252
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2023
A dying crime boss turns to dark magic in an attempt to escape his own mortality.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #253
Gearjammerby  Branko Maksic
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2023
A self-autonomous cab picks up a passenger that confesses to killing a young girl and decides to avenge her murder.

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #254
For the Kingby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2023
When a young girl gets the chance to marry the king of England She jumps at the chance, only to be disappointed at what he's become in his later years. But how will history remember them both?

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #255
Five Years Agoby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2023
What looked like a regular dating takes a sinister turn.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #256
Judge, Jury & Executionerby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2023
When a butcher’s wife puts him on a virtually meat-free diet, it provokes a disgruntled female customer to redress the balance. But does she have an ulterior motive? Mrs Durie revels in telling her local butcher, Mr Judge, of her marital issues, and to her surprise, he reciprocates with tales of his own. A dinner invitation results in a disturbing discovery by the butcher.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #257
The Injured Partyby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2023
An injured footballer’s anguish is intensified by his manager’s curious disassociation with him. While out of the team, footballer Jordan Jeffries can’t understand why he is being ghosted, and he wants to know the reason for it. It is a scenario that seasoned professional Ade Akinwande is all too happy to expand on.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #258
Bloody Neighborby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2023
Best friends after graduation, throw a party at one of the girls houses and become targets for a mentally ill neighbor.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #259
Water Killerby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2023
In a small town, there are terrible murders of young girls, but at first glance, all the girls had signs natural deaths by drowning in water, but it turns out that this is not so.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #260
Holy Unionby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2023
Visiting a literal underground church, a 14 year old boy brings his pregnant girlfriend to hopefully get married, but the insane priest they've come to see has other plans.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #261
The Navigator's Apprenticeby  Alan
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2023
An embittered teenager and her twice-divorced mother walk in a coastal wood when they encounter an unconscious man dressed in 19th century sailors clothes. They take him to their house where he recovers and shows the girl how to read the stars. She helps him find his way back and he helps her find her way forward. Winner, Woods Hole film festival

Genre: Family
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #262
The Navigator's Apprenticeby  Alan
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2023
An embittered teenager and her twice-divorced mother walk in a coastal wood when they encounter an unconscious man dressed in 19th century sailors clothes. They take him to their house where he recovers and shows the girl how to read the stars. She helps him find his way back and he helps her find her way forward. Winner, Woods Hole film festival

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #263
One Taskby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2023
Two rival killers get the same task to take down a local drug lord.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #264
Betrayal And Murderby  Oliver Stivens
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2023
The girl finds out about the betrayal of her beloved boyfriend, but does not plan to forgive him and plans to take revenge on him by killing his lover and framing him for the murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #265
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2023
A barrister’s hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eye-witness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #266
Elvis Hasn't Left The Buildingby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2023
The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock n’ Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit, the man himself – Elvis Presley.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #267
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2023
Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, time learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protestor in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #268
The La Croix Fragmentsby  Kelly Logue
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2023
He should have never taken the assignment! Now, Doyle is being terrorized by creatures from someone else’s imagination!

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #269
Misfortuneby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
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
Result #270
Night of the Pumpkinsby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
Halloween comes only once a year, but not everyone is happy about this. In fact, several pumpkins are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. (Horror/comedy)

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #271
Hidden in the sandby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
After a new never before seen fruit is discovered growing in the desert a checked out university teacher hands out the fruit to his students, but this fruit turns everyone who tastes it into mindless addicts hellbent on getting more and more.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #272
The Horse-Drawn Hearseby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
On Halloween night, young trick-or-treater Daniel Taylor catches a glimpse of the town's sinister old undertaker -- and turns out to be the last person to see him alive. (In the vein of the original Twilight Zone. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #273
No Job for Tenderfootsby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
Four notorious hit men show up at the same place, brought together by a mysterious cowboy who gives them an unusual mission. (Drama/Comedy/Crime. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #274
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
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
Result #275
The Last Picnicby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
Four hipsters pack their lunch and excitedly head into the woods for their first ever wilderness picnic. Unfortunately, it all goes very, very wrong. (Dark comedy/horror/satire. 1 location, 4 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #276
The Big Digby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
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. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #277
Gorgeousby  Jay Gutierrez
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2023
A life-long loser gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to change his life forever. Or, is it a trap that will ruin him for eternity?

Genre: Animation
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #278
The Thesisby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023
Imogene, a senior English major at Glendary College, is late deciding on a topic for her honors thesis. She proposes to her skeptical academic advisor an innovative subject ... but it will require her to go on a road trip in search of a volatile rock band.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #279
An Act of Kindnessby  Georgette B. Skolnick
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023
A high school bully who continually harasses his teacher learns a lesson the hard way in this short feel-good drama.

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #280
Just Take a Breathby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2023
New to the newsroom a happily married young woman, struggles to avoid risking her marriage when she experiences an unexpectedly strong attraction to a just met co-worker with whom she will be working regularly.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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