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Killerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2024
Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael Volpe
Date Posted: 13 May 2025
After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lost—proving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 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
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
John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man…John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away – but it does not work out as planned.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Slow Burnby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2024
A man reflects on his slow-burning relationship with a former neighbor turned best friend, as they navigate the fading romance, shared history, and quiet realization that it's time to move on from each other, despite their deep emotional bond.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Bogey 3by  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Four elite Desert Storm pilots are assigned to a wasteland to find and destroy an Iraqi “Red Baron” that’s halted the U.S. campaign, but instead find something worse.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bridgeby  Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2024
In 1946 three preteens lose their innocence after witnessing a horrific act. Six characters, one location. (Finalist in Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest)

Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Manby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
With a dangerous cartel coming after them, two men need to kill a third to save their own skin, now hoping that a blind butcher will do the dirty work for them.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Sweater Tomby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 08 May 2025
Zany Christmas Sweater Tom wears his Christmas Sweater every day, to the annoyance of those around him.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Tide Flashby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2024
A man has writer’s block, a rip tide threatens his life, and then he discovers inspiration from a teen who shares a story.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Snowbound Secretsby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
A man on the run after a desperate bank robbery finds himself trapped in a small isolated motel during a snowstorm. But he quickly discovers that the other motel guests also have secrets to hide, and they are all willing to do whatever it takes to keep them concealed.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Girl In The Subwayby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Two policemen on patrol see a 12-year-old girl sleeping in the subway, when the policemen approached her to ask about her parents, they realized that she could not speak.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dark Snowby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
A sexually repressed woman in her 30s overcomes her inhibitions when she meets a man at an office Christmas party, then races north to her maiden aunt's cabin in the woods to share the joyous news, only to encounter bitterness and jealousy and a poignant parting of the ways.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Any Face Will Doby  Tim Bechen
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2024
A man soon regrets his wife's New Year's Resolution.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Egoby  Ali noun
Date Posted: 28 May 2025
A former investigator, shattered by the death of his family, hunts their killer - to discover that the chasing has been himself all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Octoberby  Ilyas Adiris
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024
In a luxury apartment suite, turned into a diplomatic chamber in 1976. A vulnerable African Minister, confronts America's most ruthless diplomat. Turning a routine meeting, into a moral standoff. That could reshape East Africa. Inspired by true events.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Happy Endingsby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2023
Two old-timers in the Midwest are in arrears on their mortgage payments, and the bank is leaning on them. Then, miraculously, Mr. Lodestone (an emissary of Satan) appears at their door with an offer too good to be true.

Genre: Family
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Deadliest Jobby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025
A female courier delivering mob cash at a deserted train station is confronted by a stranger who demands half, but as motives unravel, the exchange becomes a deadly game of deception and survival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Off Limitsby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2024
Choosing to remain Single, Sydney believes no man can take her first love place because he accepted her for who she is.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2024
In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wipeoutby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
A MAN gets caught by his Girlfriend flirting at the beach and he must plead for her forgiveness.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lord of the Shelvesby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2024
Hoping to go straight, a former mob boss moves to a small town and becomes a librarian. But it won't be easy because he's paranoid, hot-tempered and prone to violence. Just pray your library books aren't overdue.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
We Need a New Refrigeratorby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
An irritable middle-aged housewife is sick and tired of almost everything, and her sympathetic husband knows why.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Guns of Septemberby  Anselmo Garcia
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
As a mob war rages in New York City, a killer hit squad holds a main enforcer of the opposing faction hostage.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2025
When her web of reality moves a young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer to seek employment as a home decor designer in New York City, she lands among a multicultural group whose mismatched goals result in both poetic and situational comedy.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Drama
3 pages
SATNAVby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A woman's infidelity takes her on an unexpected journey when her scorned husband hacks her car's navigation system.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tommyby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2024
A young graffiti artist decides to tag a war memorial and finds his lack of respect has surprising consequences.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reflectionsby  Jeff Walker
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2024
On a fateful day a desperate man filled with fear and uncertainty races to connect with those who have most impacted his life before confronting his destiny.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Told You Soby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
A once-successful cryptocurrency investor, Michael Tanner, finds his empire destroyed overnight by a devastating crash, leading him into a spiraling journey of regret, desperation, and the harsh realization that the pursuit of wealth may have cost him everything that truly mattered.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cringeby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
When an exhausted serial killer on a cross-country spree stops at a secluded motel he is told by his supernatural boss, the entity known as fate, that he must experience “true love” before being granted the rest that he so desires.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Where the Heart Isby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
The spirit of Christmas must overcome those with hatred in their hearts.

Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Everlasting Imageby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Seductive wordplay is Jeanqúal’s introduction leading to his murders in a quest to create the perfect woman. 

Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Paybackby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2024
Predicaments mount in the wake of a young man’s decision to steal a diamond ring off the finger of a dead woman. Story lends itself to proof-of-concept and feature development. Award-winning produced writer.

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