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WriteSafe Announces 2008 1st Quarter Semifinalists
WriteSafe has announced their Present-A-Thon semifinalists for the first quarter of 2008, representing the top 20% of the eligible entries.
WriteSafe Semi-Finalists (listed alphabetically by title):
AMERICA'S FAVORITE HOUSE by Kenneth Lemm - TV Series Premise
ASSIGNED RISK by Rogers Turrentine - Screenplay
BELOW ZERO by Nic Penrake - Screenplay
BLACK OPS by Andrew Fisk - Screenplay
CARNEGIE'S WAR by Christiana Miller - Screenplay
CLOUD CREEK by Robert O'Hannon - Teleplay
DEATH ORBIT by Si Dunn - Screenplay
GRAB A NEW LIFE! by Si Dunn - Screenplay
OUR INDIAN by Si Dunn - Short Story
SNOW ANGELS by Robert O'Hannon - Screenplay
SOMETHING HAPPENED IN 1973 by Deborah Greenhut - Screenplay
THE SEAWITCH by Jacquelin Burt - Screenplay
THE TEDDINGTON SQUARE SLEUTHING SOCIETY by John Adcox - TV Series
Premise
WHAT THE THUNDER SAID by John Adcox - Novel
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS by Eric Steele - Screenplay
Updated: 06/08/2008
Additional Contest Info:
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After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her rich, white parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
