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Two Minutes Till Midnightby  Dwayne Bricker
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When a hard‑driving paramedic is thrown into a two‑minute time loop before a deadly gas explosion in a crumbling apartment building, she keeps dying and snapping back to the same moment in her ambulance. Each reset reveals a leaking basement line, a panicked tenant with a faulty light switch, and a trapped teen upstairs, forcing her to make one brutal, strategic sacrifice to break the loop and save the most lives.

Genre: Sci-Fi
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brittle Tromboneby  Mary Goldman
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A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Zombieby  Doug J Robbins
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A woman is tormented by a zombie that suddenly appears at her Kitchen door.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Writerby  Lamar D. Vine
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In a cluttered Chiang Mai apartment, a reclusive expat writer battles creative stagnation and a looming deadline, only to find his sanity unraveling when an obsessive young neighbor invades his space with seductive interruptions, blurring the lines between reality, desire, and the dark toll of his unfinished manuscript.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life On The Lineby  Guy Bardach
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A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Maria x Mariaby  Ruby Hernandez
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When a submissive housewife discovers her body has regenerative properties, she uses it to build the family she always wanted.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtimeby  Doug J Robbins
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A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Going To The Topby  Matthew Belopavlovich
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During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
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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
K!ll!n T!m£by  F!N
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A Scottish schizophrenic armed with a ticking time bomb is forced to rob his own bank in a race against the clock!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Antiques Sh**showby  John Boal
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A tart-tongued substitute host for the genteel Antiques Roadshow dishes caustic comments on the innocent guests which triggers not only a boost in the ratings, but also a goofy lad to make a sign dubbing the proceedings as the Antiques Shitshow. Yet when the host's Aunt comes by with the world's oldest vibrator, she dangles it as a hostage heirloom to make the host change her wicked ways by apologizing to her deceased mum.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Nuptualsby  Barry Staff
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Wanting to consummate her marriage to a much older man, a virginal bride pushing 40 needs to cope when things go disastrously wrong.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby  Michael Celender
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After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
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An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby  Bernard Mersier
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Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Developingby  Steven Burton
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After a man develops several old 35 mm. rolls of film, he discovers links to the past, present, and future.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheltered Collapseby  Stephanie Neroes
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Haunted by loss and consumed by anxiety, a reclusive woman clings to her routines in a post-pandemic world that has left her behind, until the measures meant to keep her safe lead to tragedy.

Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Neighborly Noteby  Dwayne Bricker
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Withdrawn tenant Eve Marks begins receiving accusatory handwritten notes about noises she never makes. The messages escalate into unnervingly precise predictions of her behavior, culminating in instructions for a "justified" act of violence at a specific time. When she resists, Eve discovers every tenant has their own anonymous scriptand realizes an unseen presence is quietly orchestrating the entire building, and isn't finished with her.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blazing Couplesby  Phyllis Campbell Corley
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A married man bored with monogamy talks his wife into having a tryst with two swingers that ends in disaster.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby  Larry E. Coleman
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A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.

Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wit's Endby  Barry Staff
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Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
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After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A writer's nightmares of alien implants fuel his horror noveluntil he learns the story is real and ending it will end him.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
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After a ruthless businessman discovers a dying cashier inside a locked supermarket, he becomes convinced the killer is still inside and fights desperately to escape. But the terrifying ordeal is no random nightmare: his fed-up wife and the employee whose life he ruined have carefully constructed a deadly deception, exploiting his arrogance, temper and instinct for violence to turn him from the hunted into the man the police believe is the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
2 Heart Shuffleby  Bernard Mersier
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Sitting on opposite sides of the bathroom door, Laura and Rodney confront their deepest insecurities and unspoken boundaries, ultimately deciding whether emotional vulnerability or possessive fear will dictate the future of their relationship.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Furry Family Reunion [Extended Family Edition]by  Amy
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When a loyal Furry breaks Fandom protocol, he finds it impossible to rise in the ranks at FurCon, especially with his extended family in tow. More information here: https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/furry-family-reunion-extended-family-edition

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
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In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby  Elliot Stanton
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A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Hatsby  Tina Field Howe
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A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pathfinderby  Peter J Bartels
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When the sole survivor of a groundbreaking light-speed experiment begins unraveling the mystery of his missing crew, he discovers that he is both the mission's greatest successand its most carefully guarded secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Horse in a Saloonby  Nickolas Snider
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It's about a horse named Buck. He was human before being turned by an evil warlock. He wants to prove himself by ordering a drink in a saloon to prove he is more than just a horse.

Genre: Western
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Winter Walk inby  Camelia Dinu
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When a lonely woman finds a fresh footprint in the snow, the past she buried threatens to return; what is she willing to sacrifice for her peace?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fishing in Heavenby  Art D'Alessandro
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When 8 year-old Alex's Grandpa, her best friend and fishing buddy, dies suddenly, she has a hard time dealing with the loss and life itself. But in a dream she finds herself fishing with him again in a beautiful, almost magical place, only to waken with a whole new way of seeing things.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Transferenceby  Frazer Lee
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Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thulirby  KS Punithakumar
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Following a single flower's journey from a morning market to a temple altar, a cremation ground, and a flowing river, the interconnectedness of life, devotion, and human mortality unfolds.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby  Elliot Stanton
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Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory about his wife's infidelity is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner's theory that Clive is an idiot.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
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A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby  John Waring
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A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby  Tina Gandhi
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Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.

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