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Coming of Rageby  Mark Childs
Life has dealt Brian Kirby Jones a horrible hand. Nature and nurture battle for supremacy at Brian's expense. The birth of a serial killer is a complicated process and free will, or the lack of it, will determine Brian's fate.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
test staging shortsby  Mike MinkTipWriter3
Testing staging. 05/02/17

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
(6) 1-page animated or live action filler short scripts for children. At home and outside, children are instructed how to be more confident.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Lenny's Pawn Shopby  Sherrill Wark
A couple of muggers fence their ill-gotten gains at the wrong place. (10 pages)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
As John's 80-year-old mother starts to lose her memory, the time they share together on Mother's Day becomes bittersweet.

Genre: Family
8 pages
The Dragon Curseby  NG
A young hunter must save his father changed into a dragon by a curse.

Genre: Animation
10 pages
A Woman Scornedby  Marnie Mitchell-Lister
In an attempt to save his troubled marriage, a vice cop requests for a transfer but gets pulled back in when a prostitute begins murdering her clients.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
A neat-freak killer roams the streets looking for his next victim, unaware that predators come in many guises.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Sam goes to the doctor to get a shotby  Angela Clark
According to Sam and his pal, both six years old, doctors can make you sick. On the way to the doctors, to get a vaccine shot for school, trees, bushes, and clouds turn into doctor tools. Comedy, 5 pages, short and animation. Angela Clark and Evonne Harrell

Genre: Animation
5 pages
An executioner in 17th century England, struggles to keep his head, whilst all around him lose theirs.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
On his routine paper round one morning, a young boy is faced with flashes from a past he cannot remember.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Bar Sceneby  Robert Cox
A man wakes up in a bar with no memory of how he got there. The only other person there is an enegmatic bartender and no way out.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
A barber with a mysterious background gives his patrons much more than a simple haircut. Produced writer.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Before moving his family to Seattle, a man tries one last time to get his father off the streets of Sacramento. While their day together sheds light on a contentious past and helps mend wounds, will it prove enough to turn their lives around for good? WINNER - Best Short Screenplay - Salt Lake City Film Festival 2013 RUNNER UP - Dramatic Short - Woods Hole Film Festival 2013 FINALIST - SoCal Film Fest 2013

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Tollbooth Talkby  Barry M. Putt, Jr
A northern faces the challenge of his life when he stops at a desolate tollbooth in rural Tennessee.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Hospitalityby  John Porter
A bad guest makes a good host feel great about himself.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
The Catchby  Tenel writers
Fish can be used in many ways. Ask the drug dealer how. Honorable Mention 3X3: 2007

Genre:
3 pages
A Vengeful Silenceby  Antoine Mizel
The 8-year-old brother of a kidnap/murder victim sets out for revenge.

Genre:
9 pages
A Matter of Tasteby  John Porter
A fat and proud young woman struggles to decide whether or not to lose weight for a skinny young man who loves a skinny young woman.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
After a drunken night a young man wakes to a distressed girl he doesn't know, in a house he's never been in, with no idea of how he got there.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
The Night Shiftby  Sean Ryan
Some jobs are just simply too boring to care about.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
The Glamourous Spellby  Dexter E. Williams
A shy office worker is hypnotized by a sexy and mysterious woman into gaining the confidence to stand up to her mean-spirited boss.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Branded "the new kid," a shy 10-year-old is tormented by bullies and cowed by his demanding father " until a tomboy he meets at school becomes an unexpected ally.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
6 pages
To find a girlfriend, a chemistry student helps convince millions of people his best friend is God's latest prophet - but it all goes way, way too far.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Padres e Hijosby  John Porter
A young Latino learns to thank his father for having loved him enough to stay alive.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Until Death Do Us Campby  James A. Hernandez
A sophisticated couple on the verge of divorce find solace and understanding on a camping trip with their eccentric, and perhaps bizarre, best friends.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Killing Targetby  Fassinou Ange
The story follows a hitman who uses subliminal messages to bait innocent people to do the killings for him, leaving the innocent people to take the blame while he is allowed to walk free. With LA Detectives clued on to what is actually happening, they race against the clock before the hitman kills again.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
The Sex Tapeby  George Klembith
HOW TO MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD - Part 6 - "The Sex Tape" You can always become a star from your talent but you'll get there quicker with a sex tape.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Rock! Scissors! Zombie!by  Skip Schwink
Two zombies roshambo for the brains of a helpless female human, but unbeknownst to the walking dead they are the ones being hunted.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
A young woman who finds her frog prince has mixed feelings about him. (2 pgs; award-winning shorts writer)

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Stuck Togetherby  C J Walley
Two girls stranded in the California badlands discover a corpse and worry the person who comes to their aid may be the killer

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
The Promiseby  Robert Cox
Paul and his best gal pal Mac have been the closest of friends since kindergarten, but when Paul gets cold feet at the thought of marrying his boyfriend Richard, she tries to convince him that the two of them are in love and he should go through with the wedding as planned, since there is an important promise to her that he must keep.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
One Child Bornby  Stuart Creque
A Rwandan Tutsi farmer's third child is coming. As he waits on his front porch for the midwife to do her work, his oldest son arrives home with the news that a Hutu mob is also coming.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
A young drug dealer trying to escape a police hunt, finds himself hiding on a bus full of little old ladies. His big mistake was jokingly challenging the older women to a karate fight, which leaves him knocked out on the bus floor with the police ready to search the bus.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
All's Quiet on the Eastern Frontby  Rosie Cross
When a soldier walks the wrong way to the front lines of war, he finds it very quiet.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Exorcistsby  Fassinou Ange
Exorcists try to save a possessed girl... But the demon seems to be more powerful than what they thought.

Genre: Horror
40 pages
A call from his mother sends him over the edge and into the comfort of his other reality.

Genre: Other
5 pages
Classified-Viperby  Christopher James
Leaked CLASSIFIED footage of CCTV monitoring at a Covert Operations Controller’s home when a former agent, believed assassinated, phones after booby-trapping the house - seeking revenge. Trapped inside as his captor demonstrates his bomb-making skills the controller must divulge sensitive secrets or place his family in gravest danger - and they’re due home any minute. [One location + one shot - Extreme Low Budget - First in a Series]

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
33 pages
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
A romance based on O. Henry's short story about a middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Gone Fishingby  Jason Clowers
While fishing, a young boy named James meets an unexpected visitor.

Genre: Family
7 pages
 
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