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A Good SoulA sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film. |
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Autumn BloodBad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt |
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Perfect ProphetA death metal atheist with a tortured religious past becomes the target of his satanic fan base because they think he's something more. Check out the novel and its sequel, Prophet Reborn, published in 2018 and 2020. Script Excerpt |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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Harpo's Bike (Can't Find My Way Home)A young ad artist takes a trip to New Orleans on a Harley inherited from his estranged Marine father to prove to his family that the man was having an affair. Instead, he finds a veteran homeless mute - his father's best friend - who thinks he's Harpo Marx. Script Excerpt |
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SpikeA Native American environmentalist is pitted against his logger brother after a botanist whistleblower is pushed too far in the struggle to maintain the forests of Northwestern Montana. As loggers fight for job security, and as environmentalists fight for their cause, the botanist becomes the victim of both sides, and enacts a dangerous retribution. Script Excerpt |
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The SchoharieA volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!River of Dreams
Star-crossed lovers, Hamilton Maywood and Lee Ann Hunter, participants in the 1870 great steamboat races, have a second chance to get it right coming back as Greystone Ducette and Elizabeth Rowland, aboard a modern day re-enactment of the boat race.
Murder by Suicide
Cheated on by her rock star husband, a woman starts a unique and risky agency to save other celebrity wives from the same fate, only to find herself accused of the murder of one of her most notorious and ruthless clients.
But You Can't hide
A missing husband, a soldier of fortune, and an heiress whose touch with reality comes and goes, brings mystery and death.
Never a Dull Moment
A view of the modern world of real estate, where like a dysfunctional family, the agents interact with each other and their clients.
For the Love of Pete
An ultimate bachelor and womanizer, meets a woman he can’t live without who loves kids, so her borrows his brat niece to claim as his own, but like all good plans it backfires.
Dumped
A loser and afraid of commitment in high school, CLARK MCGRAW, now a huge success, hires a woman as his fiancé for his High School Reunion .
This Someone Else Is You
Maggie Thorpe’s mother has just married her fifth husband, who has a son who dumped Maggie three years ago and who broke her heart, and who now see the opportunity for mischief and mayhem.
Nobody's Angel
Obsessed as to why a dead girl is labeled a hooker and an OD, and in spite of no one believing it was foul play, and coupled with the feeling he should know her, a New York detective pursues a case that everyone else has written off.
Second Chance Inn
The Second Chance inn exists only for those who are expected.
NEVERMORE
Edgar Allan Poe, poet, author and detective, investigates a series of mysterious murders - including that of his own wife - in an alt-history 1847 Baltimore.
