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Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Man Who Murderd Morkby  Frank Vespe
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2024
One man's perfection is another man's destruction.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dipsomaniaby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2024
John doesn’t believe he’s ruining his wife's life by binge drinking, but he finds out the hard way the price of his addiction. 

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
Guy painfully caught between former "love of his life" who is sending him a final goodbye via live video and his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's promised to engage in a serious relationship and is waiting for him at her flat. (Both women are played by the same actress.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Afterlifeby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2024
A 26-year-old man regrets committing suicide and death shows him the ramifications of the effects his suicide had on his parents and girlfriend.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dreamby  Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weird Realtyby  Elise Marenson
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2024
When a female realtor calls on a guy who is selling his house, he has no clue that her weird zingers stem from a grudge she still holds for standing her up in high school.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Navvies Lamentby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A man reflects on the meaning of his identity, within a bar that has shape shifted it's patrons

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
First Dateby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. They must first navigate the choppy waters of compatibility to see if there is a connection". Exterior location. Two characters.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The N King and Queenby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2024
The things people complain about are the same things they support, and that’s bothering the soul of a deceased melanated Queen.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Arnoldby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Standing in front of a mirror, a young boy tries to understand why his reflection is a dog.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Developingby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
After a man develops several old 35mm. rolls of film, he discovers links to the past, present, and future.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America don't want to go along with the marriage their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cozenageby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2024
A hopeful screenwriter resorts to deception to partner with a junk dealer to write the next big movie but faces consequences when the dealer outsmarts her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Truck, Please!by  Mary Barrett
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2024
When his wife demands Joe not to come home until he sells his gas guzzling truck, he is directed by the used car salesmen to the bad side of town where he meets up with other guys waiting for their trucks to be stolen.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Okay, Honeyby  Frank Vespe
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2024
A grieving family discovers their deceased Grandfather's good-luck charm may possess diving powers.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dollby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Experimentby  Carl
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
In 'The Experiment,' a modern reimagining of the classic Frankenstein tale, a Scientist will do anything to save his dying daughter, even if there are consequences.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 29 Feb 2024
Believing the bible is based about him because of what happened as a child, Brendan goes on a bloody murder spree.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Queen: Birth Of A Queen Warriorby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
In a land of witches and beasts, a young woman, kidnapped for an Amazon Army, battles to get back to her tribe and lead her warrior sisters to the truth.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sucker Punchby  Richard Cowley
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2024
In this satirical short, an irreverent and unlettered savant challenges the hidebound academic establishment to accept his ground-breaking ideas.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Dreamby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gloss Overby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2025
A patient grandmother takes her hobby of writing product reviews to new extremes by watching paint dry, but her family wants her to stop her compulsion and deal with her grief.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Small Talkby  Linda Kampley
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
A young woman goes on a first date expecting romance but finds danger.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trappedby  Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
Three armed robbers and their hostage take refuge in an abandoned house after a failed robbery, but they're not alone.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
PAIN @ THE PUMPby  Bob Canning
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024
Two aliens from another galaxy pretty far away have a major disagreement with a fuel pump they think is an Earthling -- the fuel pump wins.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Detective Sam and Friends Adventuresby  Gail Morin
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2024
A Pup Detective goes on fun and exciting adventures along with his friends to teach good moral, tackle bullying, and other subjects. Each episode is fun mystery and included the children to help solve very fun and all kids are included as well . The first adventure is on bullying with a whole season not limited to haunted adventures. Could be real live action or cartoon.

Genre: Animation
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025
When his wife's vengeful spirit makes his life a living hell, a murderer must find the courage to do the right thing: Pay for his deeds!

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Keep Scrollingby  Jerrod D. Brito
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2024
When a college kid surfs the web at the time of night when creepy people post creepy things, he unwittingly falls victim to the latest creepypasta legend.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Next Seatby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A man sits alone in an empty movie theater waiting for a film to begin, and then a woman stranger sits in the seat next to him. They have a dramatic confrontation while the screening is delayed.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antidoteby  Jon Hughes
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2024
A forlorn wife poisons her unfaithful husband only to discover he could inherit a fortune.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not the Brightest Guy in the Worldby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A hard-working, middled-aged plumber admits that he's not the brightest guy in the world, then struggles to understand why his middle-aged lady is happy one minute, sad the next, and mad the next

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
The Toilet Whispererby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
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
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
A woman wants the simplest things, but why should a man give it to her? That's the question plaguing Bear's mind.

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