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Squid JiggersGenre: Drama/Romance -Feature A young island woman spends three years struggling with the loss of her arm until her ex, responsible for her impairment, is released from prison, then she fights for her life. |
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SoapThe bar is full but no one speaks or looks up from their texting, instead they stare down at their phones like zombies, until Jasper walks in and provides words for a muted soap opera on the large TV screen. Script Excerpt |
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Nightmare in a JarWith her husband out of town on business, Lisa plans to spend time writing, until a woman shows up at her door selling special face cream; from there everything gets dark and freaky. Script Excerpt |
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Municipal AuthorityWhen B.J loses his job as a reporter, he is forced to take a job registering the cognitively compromised to vote; or face the new government Municipal Authority camps for non-producers. This was a semi-finalist in American Gem Screenwriting Competition as Sign on the Bloody Line. Script Excerpt |
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Your Secrets Will Get You HighWhen a loud woman on a bus inadvertently starts a full-fledged AA meeting, she gets more than she bargained for. When the bus stops for a dinner break, all hell breaks loose. Script Excerpt |
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Baby's GoneTwo neglected toddlers look on as their new baby brother is taken from their motel room while the mother watches. Baby's Gone is a short taken from my memoir, Riding in the Backseat with My Brother; currently a book but soon to be a feature screenplay. Just awarded semi-finalist for the New Millennium competition. Script Excerpt |
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Louis A. Runs AlongLouis has been sober for years until he hops a bus for vacation where he meets a woman who steals his heart, and eventually his sobriety. Note: This script is the first episode in what will be a series. It is based on my short story that was awarded honorable mention in the Oregon Writers Colony Competition and a semi-finalist in the New Millennium Competition. Script Excerpt |
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RoommatesWhen two roommates find their third roommate dead in his room they panic, realizing they could be suspects, then spend hours getting drunk letting their imagination go wild, until the authorities show up. Script Excerpt |
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A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Contortions
Contortions is a psychological chamber piece that unfolds almost entirely within a dim sitting room.
Identity Fragments
This psychological drama about identity and mental illness begins in 1945, when LUCY is an 8th grade choir girl living in a strict Catholic orphanage, and follows her through 1987 and ultimate redemption.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
A teenage girl, afraid of her vindictive impulses in a violent future world, seeks safety in the gentle spirit of her dead grandmother.
Henry-Henry
In this virtuoso acting vehicle, one actor plays a dual personality, a defrocked priest with dark secrets and a mildly alcoholic bureaucrat who argue with each other but are able to use their illness to infiltrate a child sex trafficking ring.
A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President
An old man takes on the scars of the nation and claims to know who killed JFK and that he helped set the conspiracy in motion.
AND WE WERE LEFT DARKLING
As Wallenberg and Eichmann play chess, they confront the question of whether humans worship the God of Love, or the replacement God of Macht or Power.
The Ephod
Based on a true story. After a troubling Bible study shakes her lifelong Catholic faith, a woman experiences a vivid dream turned Spirit encounter when a mysterious Black Noble Man enters her dream and began preaching to her with passion and authority.
Bre'gan's Fist
When Milo, a cook, meets Bastian, a powerful sorcerer, magic happens.
The Rondo Conspiracy
In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily a Black community in St.
