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The Bodyguard. 2. Going Homeby  Anthony Toni
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2024
After over 30 years working as a Bodyguard you're now approaching 65. You now realize you can't move as fast as you once did. Nor can you see and hear as well. One more BIG job before you call it quits? Fiction but based on a real life job assignment.

Genre: Action/Adventure
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Oscarby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2025
What appears to be a bank job, pulled by a mysterious couple, turns out to force a reckless politician into a life-changing and character-revealing decision.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Generous Hostby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2025
In a twisted tale of digital deception, a loving couple's date night spirals into terror when a vengeful brother exposes the boyfriend's secret online scam exploiting his girlfriend's image, ending in a ruthless home invasion and fatal betrayals.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Staticby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025
When a terrified young woman calls an electrician to fix her possessed TV, he uncovers a sound that doesn’t want to be silenced—and a horror that won’t let go.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Please Clean Me!by  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A father struggles to work seven days a week in order to make his son’s Christmas special.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A young man and his fiancée confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hungerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2023
A spoiled child ignores his father's pleas to be good because Santa is watching.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A-rrhythmiaby  Tigran Vardanyan
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2025
A reserved man visits a secluded seaside restaurant, masking his internal turmoil as he prepares for an evening with "guests" who may never arrive, culminating in a haunting act of finality that echoes his quiet despair.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Having always held her mother as an untouchable icon, a newlywed's joy turns to ashes when she walks in on her beloved mom entangled with her brand-new husband, forcing her to navigate a landscape of unthinkable betrayal where the lines of love and hate are dangerously blurred.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
SMILE - Its an Ulster Affairby  Alan Riley
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024
Amidst the political chaos of Stormont, a hapless but well-intentioned intern accidentally triggers a series of hilarious misadventures when he uncovers a scandalous secret, forcing unlikely allies from opposing parties to band together and save face before their antics bring down the entire political establishment. *Has twists and turns!*

Genre: Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Momby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2024
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Shotsby  Don Willis
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Two Shots follows a young Marine veteran with PTSD who returns from war to his true love, Rita. Things soon spiral out of control as he struggles to find his place in her life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tutor Meby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2025
A talented teacher has gotten used to the money tutoring rich kids brings, but meeting Alex the son of a mean wealthy bully changes everything and he's determined to get him into school.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Free Tomatoesby  JT
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2024
Sometimes free has a price.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
His Fatherby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2025
A man scarred by his abusive past must confront his estranged father's secret love and a devastating family truth, leading him to choose forgiveness and a fragile new beginning.

Genre: Drama
8 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
How Do You Get to Margie's House?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
ERA IIby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A naive scientist who has discovered a way to bring people back from the past, interviews infamous dictator Hitler but his German translator has different plans.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pain & Sympathyby  Dale Easterling
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2024
A dysfunctional married couple seeks therapy, where the psychiatrist hypnotizes them into feeling each other's pleasure and pain - literally.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Echoes of Eternityby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2025
A brilliant physicist’s groundbreaking experiment in spiritual time travel unravels the fabric of reality,forcing him to confront the ultimate paradox: can he exist if his past self never did?

Genre: Sci-Fi
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thrill in Manilaby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2025
In 1975, the fight of the century occurs in Manila with Ali's stream of consciousness descriptions.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Accidents Happenby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2024
A man questions his responsibilities when he goes to the toilet and unexpectedly gives birth to an egg.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tourists in a Foreign Filmby  Kimberly Ann Laux
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024
Two tourists, Honey and Sweetheart, are on their way to Hollywood to bask in the glow of Tinsel Town when they take a wrong turn at the corner of Despair and Desperation. Will they decipher the motifs in a strange black and white world with subtitles before it's too late?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shoplifterby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
Rural vigilantes misappropriate justice when they accost a man suspected of shoplifting at the local Walmart.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Coilby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
A brilliant scientist has a theory: an exact amount of energy focused on the exact right space, at the exact right time, can open a portal between multiverses. Will testing this theory cost more than he’s willing to sacrifice? A 15-minute short shot in one room with three cast members.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Tomorrowby  Sharon
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024
In a future where memories can be shared and experienced like virtual reality, a young woman discovers set of illegal, ancient memories that reveal the truth about humanity's past and set her on a collision course with the authoritarian government determined to keep history a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2025
At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young woman teases her fiancé until she discovers he’s willing to do almost anything to make her happy.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beside meby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2024
When Ethan shares an innocent drink with his unsuspecting friend Conner about the corruption in their drug business, he hints around the reason why he really invited Conner over for drinks, with a deadly ultimatum.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Customer Service Lifeby  Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2024
A customer service rep shows the challenges they face when trying to make customers happy.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall From Heavenby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Birthrightby  Michael Hutchinson
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2025
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
Blood, White, And Blueby  Antoine Mizel
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2025
Set in a future where the families of murder victims are legally sanctioned to face those convicted in a 3-minute death match, an apprehensive, yet determined couple, faces off with their daughter's killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mario's Songby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
When his fisherman dad drowns at sea, a recruited soccer ace hooks up with a charismatic drug dealer to support his family, but eventually, must either roll over on his boss who is like a brother or do hard time in gladiator academy.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mary's Last Giftby  Andrea Lynn Anthony
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
Struggling with addiction and a devastating AIDS diagnosis, a homeless woman discovers that the compassionate nurse treating her is the daughter she gave up 25 years ago. As they forge a bond, a hidden truth emerges through a forbidden DNA test, leading to a poignant journey of redemption, loss, and the rediscovery of family.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by  John Boal
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2025
On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Melancholyby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2024
Understanding his ego ruined a perfect relationship, Josh has to face what he's done and hopefully try to fix it.

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