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A Day at the Officeby  Mary Krell-Oishi
An overweight woman in love with her boss fantasizes about a romantic liason.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
The Coolest Guys in the Worldby  David Nelson
A group of dimwitted teens work together to find their friend a date for the prom.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Dr. Rowley SPby  markerstone
Dr. James Rowley, psychiatrist to the supernatural, has been losing patients to a mysterious hunter. After an encounter with a powerful vampire the hunter must turn to the doctor for help.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
The Gipsy Girlby  Fara Sue Romero
While most carnivals arrive with fortune tellers of ladies old, this one brings THE GIPSY GIRL... (This short is to be shot as a silent film).

Genre: Other
15 pages
What if you saw your obituary online. Could you alter your fate?

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Embracing Chastityby  Tom Deiker
"Embracing Chastity" -- Satire. A graduating college senior shares with "my best girlfriends" his fears on entering a life of priestly celibacy. 1-scene (park bench), 8 pages. Cast of 3: 2 women, 1 man. No CGI/SFX. General audience. ©WG1636320 Stageplay version performed by Love Creek Productions, Producers Club, New York.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Divine Interventionby  Anita Louis
An angry young woman who has lost her faith receives an email from God, then finds herself struggling for her path in life - and indeed, for life itself!

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Los Quitados (the taken ones)by  Alexander Lynch
Via video testimony a woman recalls her time as a pregnant captive during the Argentina ˜dirty war’, tragically unaware of close she is to her now adult daughter who was stolen from her.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Submerged!!by  Bryan Carrier
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and Maggie wants her share dead, or, alive!!

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Panphobiaby  Kevin Bui
A woman suffers from anxiety, goes into panic mode, fearing everything in sight.

Genre:
5 pages
The Black And White Rosesby  anthony cacchillo
In planning ahead, a couple in their mid-fifties purchase a plot and granite headstone at their local cemetery. But soon after, bouquets of black and white roses repeatedly appear at the site. With no card or other identification on the flowers, the bewildered couple experience worry and fear.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Our Ticking Bombby  Scott McConnell
While an estranged married couple meet to say goodbye, a bomb under their bench is set to go off in twelve minutes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Shy, insecure teenage girl testified against and convicted a very young and handsome serial slasher. She always knew he would escape one day and track her down. Night of showdown arrives. She's armed all right, but he's way persistent, passionate and good looking. Wow ... what some girls will do.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Roadkillby  Warren Fast
Two cold blooded killers, one male, one female, meet on the open road, each targeting the other as the next victim, both unaware of the other's intentions.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Beautiful Gaijinby  Dan Daddy
Beautiful Gaijin (Action) When a notorious samurai is attacked by a group of western bounty hunters, he finally discovers his one true soul mate - in the heat of battle... Four actors needed and one forest location - doubling for rural Japan. Action script with a love theme. 6 pages.

Genre: Action/Adventure
6 pages
TWO FOR THE MONEYby  Frank Hayslip
The hit would have been easy until this happened. (two actors - two locations - 10 pages)

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Sometimes death means the end. Sometimes it's doesn't.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Temporary Fixby  Arlene Johnson
A typical day at the office goes sideways when the hired help doesn't show up and a beleaguered executive has to find a replacement.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Point of Pressureby  Jesse Kitten
A psychological drama with a "Twilight Zone" twist. Point of Pressure traces the life of a man who suffers a nervous breakdown and winds up in a mental institution.Through narration and therapy sessions with a staff psychologist we discover the strange circumstances that lead to his incarceration.During the final therapy session with the psychologist,an explosive interaction takes place-then an unusual twist is revealed at the film's completion!

Genre: Drama
30 pages
A troubled man is released from jail and struggles to make amends with his ex-wife the night she's giving birth to their only son.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
The Face In The Mirrorby  Allan Love
A asylum patient appears to be totally sane and believes he is ready to be discharged but when he looks in the mirror, things are not quite what they seem.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Fat Cheerleaderby  Matthew Swartz
Abby is determined to be a freshman cheerleader this year, even if it means being the only fat girl on the squad.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
The Queen At Restby  Stuart Creque
After a long and happy life, Queen Ella has passed away. Her Fairy Godmother and her other friends pay their last respects.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Say It Wiselyby  alex porc
Musician tells his wife he fell in love with a man, she gets angry but then she finds out more about it.

Genre:
6 pages
Last Rightsby  Kevin Bui
Things go very wrong when a psychotic murderer, on his last day on death row, is examined by a doctor.

Genre:
10 pages
A man creates and interesting waste removal problem when he clones himself for financial and personal gain.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Altered Loveby  Chris Setten
A teenage girl will try anything to conjure up affection from the man of her dreams.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
The Mind of Godby  Elisa Pasquali
What if God were an 8 year-old girl?

Genre: Artistic
8 pages
An Inuit hunter places his disabled wife on an ice floe with the things she needs for a comfortable death. She insists that he share a last meal with her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Smart and Smarterby  George & Tammy Klembith
In the vein of Dumb & Dumber -- only they bring a lot more IQ points to the party. The Mensa version of The Odd Couple.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Only For Youby  Stuart Creque
Howard built a dream home only for Janice, but Janice didn't share his dream.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
The Magicianby  Aatish Thakerar
After being intercepted by an old adversary, a street magician receives help from an unlikely source.

Genre: Other
10 pages
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby  John Porter
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America resist the arraged marriage their parents have planned--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Haunting For A Bargainby  Kelvin Wong
A short psychological suspense/thriller/horror in the tradition of Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone. A young, first-time home-buyer couple is lured into buying a bargain-of-a-house when a resident spirit begins to torment their infant baby and drive the couple apart. Optioned in 2013 but since expired, this single-location script is once again available.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
The Fable of Nathan Goochby  Ronald L. Ecker
A nerdy college boy who can’t get a date tries using some animal courtship techniques, with surprising results.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
The Urban Legends Project: ... And Executionerby  Travis Opgenorth
A documentary film maker, investigating urban legends, interviews a scientist about the death of her childhood neighbor, which she hopes was caused by black magic, because if not, then she may have been responsible. This could play as a stand alone short, or the pilot to a six episode web series (already scripted).

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Drunken Rat Bastardsby  Luis Cordoba
An unstable woman secretly tries to murder her boozy boyfriend but his sarcastic teenage son is on to her.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Space Buckaroosby  Ann McDowell
While fleeing a revolution on a distant planet, three black aliens hear a transmission asking for all œspace aliens to come to Burbank and audition for a TV show. When Queen Nerak is told an audition is a type of competition she decides this can be a way to prove she is still powerful. When she , the spaceship’s captain and her android win the competition without anyone dying she decides Earth can be hers.

Genre: Animation
7 pages
House for Saleby  John Porter
A dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a lovely young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Dating 101by  Tom Deiker
"Dating 101" -- Romantic Fantasy. Two guardian angels steer their adolescent charges through a first date. 1-scene play, 11 pages. Cast of 4: 2 women, 2 men. No CGI/SFX. General Audience. ©PAu3494658 Stageplay version performed by 6 theatres in 6 states.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
11 pages
 
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