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TRUE DESTINYA mysterious shadow organization launches the political career of a dynamic woman, pre-destined to change the world. Yet, this same organization has other plans, as it conspires with the VP candidate to take her out, and overthrow the country. Script Excerpt |
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SolAfter a shocking assassination, citizen and soldier alike plunge into a sinister interplanetary civil war between a corrupt Earth government and a Martian colony that has earned its independence. Script Excerpt |
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THE SOCIAL POLICETwenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all. It’s a Sci-Fi buddy thriller genre mix with a dash of comedy. Perfect for a series that could run on any of the streamers Netfix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Showtime, Apple, even Disney, just take out the cussing. Script Excerpt |
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TIME ZEROAfter acquiring the psychic ability to see everybody's past, a CIA Operative faces terrorists that kidnap his loved ones and force him to use his powers against his country. |
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The GladeRose Ferguson just wants the family back she’s never known. Unbeknownst to Rose, an evil as old as time itself, wants to make sure that reunion never takes place. When all seems lost, the one thing she sought might be her only saving grace. |
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SplashdownA mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity. Script Excerpt |
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ConsumedTrapped beneath a collapsed building, a grieving wife struggles to protect her treacherous husband from a horde of parasitic monsters. Script Excerpt |
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Time and AgainA ruthless politician makes a deal with an ambitious scientist: she gives him unlimited resources and he lets her use his time-bending machine to spy on her enemies. But neither of them knows that the technology has a flaw that will ultimately destroy the world. |
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The GateThe Gate is a fantasy action feature about two crusty bait and tackle guys who must stop eco-terrorists who have opened a time portal to the Pleistocene era and are about to wipe out humanity's ancestors to save the planet. Script Excerpt |
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Perfect WorldA fed-up physician driven to unravel the mystery behind his wife’s E.T. abduction uncovers more than he ordered when an extra-terrestrial patient stumbles into his E.R. |
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HeromanAfter accidentally killing his arch-rival, an idealistic superhero finds himself left permanently out of a job... |
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SpoofsAn anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt |
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EVOLUTIONThe crew of EVOLUTION comes out of hyper sleep after one hundred years from launch and the first thing the crew wants is to take over the ship from the original crew, all robots. |
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Forever AfterA retiring Beverly Hills Detective with a secret past is the only one who can foil an E.T. plan for global domination. |
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AsomniaA trauma surgeon discovers that an alertness drug taken by nearly all American adults – including her and her family – has irreversible side effects that will gradually destroy the sanity of all its long-term users by making them unable to sleep. |
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Attrition20 years after the landing of a refugee alien ship, the humans work with the Ularians to help reverse sterilization in human women. Through a draft lottery, Elena is selected, along with hundreds of other women, to participate in the Arc Project in order to find a way to procreate again. Though, once the project is underway, Elena finds there are more secrets than truths and needs the help of Sgt. Nick Chandler to find which is which. |
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NIGHTBREAKWhen the world stops spinning, the US President’s daughter fights to get her husband, a Chinese geophysicist, across the Nightside’s empty Pacific ocean bed and the chaotic, sun-burned Dayside America to get to Washington with a plan to save the planet. Script Excerpt |
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CadicleWhen a teenage girl from Earth begins training as an elite officer in the galactic military, her instant connection to a gifted young man places her at the center of a secret interdimensional war. |
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The Calvary IncidentGreen Berets and Marines time-jump to save history by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross inadvertently leaving the 21st century a frozen, unrecognizable wasteland. Script Excerpt |
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JIMMY AND JARA FROM OUTTA SPACEA twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas. Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts. Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada UFO buffs. Script Excerpt |
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EpiphanyAs the threat of revolution looms, a conflicted detective must stop the One Percent Killer by exploiting their mutual addiction to the visionary drug Epiphany. |
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A LITTLE FAVORA washed-out fighter pilot, now a fast draw for a wild west show, is asked to do a little favor: fly to the sun, reach in and pluck out the two discarded doomsday bombs before seven next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming. Script Excerpt |
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Project EradicateFive thieves pull off a daring jewelry store heist and escape through the sewer where they cross paths with a researcher and police officer documenting the disappearance of city workers. A horrific terror hunts them as they search for a way out of the maze of tunnels. Script Excerpt |
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BloodlinesA gentle teenage Neanderthal living in the remote mountains of modern-day Montana falls in love with the daughter of a redneck rancher and discovers his calling in the rodeo. But, in order to achieve his dreams, he must defy his father, leave his clan, and defend himself against an accusation of murder. Script Excerpt |
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Forgive Not Their TrespassesAfter the brutal murder of his mother, an orphan becomes a technologically advanced vigilante, dispensing justice to violent predators who evaded punishment due to loopholes in the law. |
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Forbidden SeaTwo families try to survive a hellish yachting weekend when they become the prey of a huge, mysterious creature which seems to be part of the sea itself. Script Excerpt |
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Pilot The Calvary IncidentGreen Berets and Marines time-jump to save history by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross inadvertently leaving the 21st century a frozen, unrecognizable wasteland. Script Excerpt |
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Tin GodsSet in the near future, two robots, the Monitor and the Merrimack, train for an arena battle to decide who will control the United States during the second civil war, only to develop awareness and question why they must fight at all as they clash in the largest attended, biggest pay-per-view event in history. Script Excerpt |
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Sabre IceScientists thaw a frozen cavewoman and unknowingly implant modern brain matter from a convicted serial killer—an attribute they must embrace when their other experiment, two genetically-enhanced sabretooth tigers, break loose within the compound. |
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ControllerA mentally unstable fugitive reluctantly uses experimental mind-control technology to save a former lover from a vengeful master thief. Script Excerpt |
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See Ya TomorrowDesperate to stop a tragic event in her past, a quick-witted security expert travels back to her first day of work at a low-rent time travel agency, and attempts to hijack her younger self’s life. Script Excerpt |
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The Strange Reality of Sally ParkerPILOT: Benevolent aliens risk their lives to rescue one of their own and ensure the safety of a beloved teenage cyborg, engineered for a future mission. SERIES: A teen cyborg engineered to help perfect a mind-altering computer game, battles a psychopathic CIA operative and a gang of alien marauders, intent on enslaving Earth. Script Excerpt |
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Quick ShotQuick Shot is about an ex-marine with the special ability to slow down time and shoot at impossible targets. His life changes when gets recruited by an underground organization bent on taking over the U.S. government. Script Excerpt |
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Smallville: Double RedClark falls in love with one of his own. Script Excerpt |
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ON MY RADARAfter the Domination War in the new world, vampires and humans are forced to evolve to coexist. Love, desire, and vengeance collide amidst a fight to prevent global extinction. |
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Time PassagesA widowed scientist from 400 years in the future comes back to present-day earth to spare the planet (and his civilization) from ecological ruin. In the process, he inadvertently damns his ancestors to annihilation. Script Excerpt |
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ZwarmHi-tech nanobots designed to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones malfunctions and ends up trying to repair all imperfect humans worldwide by turning them into drones. Script Excerpt |
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Space BratsWhile on a mission to colonize newly-discovered Planet Vistal, five astronaut children set out to rescue their abducted parents from an evil, alien civilization. In the process, these NASA "brats" reign havoc and wreak mayhem in the galaxies. |
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The MergingAn ancient alien device is brought on board an earth space ship and goes on a killing spree. When it lands on earth, all life is dinner. Script Excerpt |
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SECURITY ACT 2060What happens in the future when it's against the law to speak out against consumerism? |
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The Copy MachineThe humor of “There’s Something About Mary” enters the world of “Sixth Sense” in this high concept hybrid sci fi romantic comedy that tinkers with the unknown. Our hero trips through the belly laughs and the eerie fascination only to land on his feet, time and time again. |
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ISLE OF PARADISEA familial feud among an alien aristocracy engenders the birth of humanity. Script Excerpt |
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MorbidlyA young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret. Script Excerpt |
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Homeboys vs. AliensTwelve-year old Luther Martin and his friends save the 'hood from an invasion of brain stealing cannibal aliens. |
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Benjamin Franklin and the GalaxonesIn pre-revolutionary war American, Benjamin Franklin and the founding fathers and mothers battle an alien race of warriors that have allied with the British forces to defeat revolting colonists. |
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ParallelA grieving man is offered the chance to save his wife's life in seven parallel universes, but something's chasing him through the fabric of reality. |
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THE MOONSHININGNASA sends a young Adam and Eve to the Moon to see if Man can be fruitful and multiply away from Earth. But conjugal bliss goes out the window when Ross finds a substance in a cave that yields real moonshine, and he turns into an alcoholic |
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Ancient of GenesA geneticist’s regeneration of Ice Age animals & humans is stolen and becomes the basis for genetic warfare weapons – and the prophesied Resurrection of the Dead. Script Excerpt |
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BroodA monster in human form is driven to use a human female host to spawn offspring. Script Excerpt |
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HavenAfter crashing on a deserted planet, two sisters fight to return home while being pursued by bloodthirsty, desperate prisoners who were shipwrecked and left for dead on this planet years ago. |
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PurgatoryWhen a descendant of the Teutonic Order – a cheerful, clumsy and stubborn lady who’s burdened with the German post-war guilt culture – finds photos of UFOs with swastikas on a hidden Nazi train, she sets out to reveal a hidden Nazi refuge in Antarctica to the world, but that is not the only thing she encounters. Script Excerpt |
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The Calling: Light of A New DayLocal company wise guy Hamilton Key gets into it with his bosses from the Great White Tower Corporation; when he claims his life away from the Company, the planet is invaded with various forms of alien and UFO as well as a zombie virus that is used against the people. Hamilton must make it to salvation with the help of King Triton who is at war with the aliens and also, the Illuminati. |
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Trust No OneBased on the X Files. Two federal agents and their team must uncover a deadly secret to an alien invasion, with apocalyptic ramifications and possibilities, the abductions and cloning experiments become the trap of both a secret robotics and secret Super Soldier program, which leads to the destruction of the world and the end of a new beginning of the X Files. |
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meet The Devil!An award-winning journalist who doesn't believe in God or the Devil interviews an author on these 'mythical' characters landing him in Hell calling for God. Script Excerpt |
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The Keys to EarthWhen a lesbian psychic detective goes from saving dogs to saving Earth. |
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Dead or AliveThree supernatural stories involving a diverse group of individuals unfold over a fateful night in 1885 Nevada. |
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VegetationAn unusual alien plant comes to earth and wreaks havoc in San Francisco as it takes over the Pyramid Building and Golden Gate Park. (More of an “Alien” feeling then “Little Shop of Horrors”) Script Excerpt |
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StarboundThis Sci-Fi family adventure brings together the flavor of a classic Swiss Family Robinson story together with a flavor of a Star Wars escapade in a high action space adventure. Script Excerpt |
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THE CRUNCHBeautiful Indian-American MIT astro-physicist number cruncher extraordinaire passionate about gambling, fashion and reality television creates an assassinations eSports game that allows for time travel to the murders, leading to conflicts with clients about her work, both for killings in the past and those to be terminated in the future. Sell THE CRUNCH as "Assassins Creed" executed with "Star Wars" and "Stranger Things." Script Excerpt |
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ExtinctThe intriguing Sci-Fi fictional story Extinct is the illustration of human evolution visually narrated by a fictional main character that will be traveling though time from the beginning of time the big bang all the way up to today. Looking for a change after the death of his wife, a plane crash leaves a man meeting God to travel through time and see the process of extinction, the rise of man and show him the importance of life. This intriguing sci-fi fiction illustrates human evolution through the travels of Max, a scientist and martial artist who is moving cross-country after losing his wife. He carries his research on human evolution during the prehistoric time is the last thing he hears before the plane crash lands. Max wakes at the beginning of time, and a mysterious figure who guides him through the rise of mankind. Traveling through the Jurassic, Roman and Industrial eras, Max will learn the importance of living in the moment and why man has come so far. Script Excerpt |
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Emerald Green EyesThe top world governments will stop at nothing to destroy the reincarnated emerald green-eyed superheroes and their elixir that stops, cures and prevents all diseases known to mankind. |
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ALIEN SOLDIERA young trapper tastes the blue blood of a Sky Warrior and becomes a Star Blue soldier. Now immortal and able to mutate into any human form he soldiers in America’s wars, for one-hundred years. |
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SWARM.A beekeeper’s transformed into the superhero SWARM. He and the swarms of wasps that follow him safeguard a city from crime, especially from three evil men, who have created a thieving, destructive manlike flying drone robot called DRONEMAN. |
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JUST LIKE YOUAs a raw firebrand/patient attacks clinical orthodoxy her body is earmarked for rape drug tests by a syndicate whose fiscal architect doubles as the ward's fabled Chief of Psychiatry. Script Excerpt |
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UNDER OLYMPUSA disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island. He discovers an underground medical clinic, a cover for a criminal operation making illegal designer babies for wealthy guests. He's forced to escape the island, protecting the lives of two women and and an unborn child -- his own. Script Excerpt |
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StarwatchIn the year 2075, the Starwatch court jurisdiction is created in the Asteroid Belt to ensure the survival of humanities new societies. To get a taste of the show, please go to www.starwatchthemovie.com and look at the trailer of the film on which the series is based. Script Excerpt |
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ALIEN RETURNWhen a Las Vegas plane tour operator finds an unusual relic, he and his taxi-driver girlfriend battle the casino mafia, Feds, and the military for an alien cover-up. |
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NightSideBelow the glass and steel of the New Orleans Metroplex of 2052, low-tech P.I. Ian Kane searches for a missing AI scientist whose secrets could bring the entire city to a halt. |
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FALL BACKTwo lovers try to reunite after being separated by a rift in space and time. |
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CIRQUE D' ETOILES*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station. An intergalactic, time warp, adventure to the future. |
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The CreatorAfter waking an entity that once killed all the life on earth, a man must protect his family from it. |
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BACK TO THE MOONAn astronaut who wasn't chosen to go to the moon invents a space ship, taking along a whiz kid on a journey of discovery. |
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Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
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Last ContactOn the brink of extinction by a deadly alien emperor, Earth's last salvation may be an orphaned, half-human, 17 year-old, naïve, sheltered, pacifistic farm girl who unknowingly is next in line to be queen of a benevolent alien federation that knows the shocking truth of Earth's origins. |
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The Town of No TomorrowsThe story involes the detruction of a small mid western town. The intense investigation by the government and top scientists centers around the disappearance of the entire town's population , less one. The strange yellow sphere with a life force of its own,that holds the key to mankind's future |
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The Master's GameMercenaries in a contest to win $25,000,000 in gold to those who survive the game |
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Escape WorldIn a world without crime, war and sports. individuals play a game called Mind Thoughts but something goes wrong when members are murdered |
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Adapted scene from The Seven RaysThis was the Seven rays Script-a-Scene contest, for the book THE SEVEN RAYS, by Jessica Bendinger. up to 5 pages from a favorite excerpt of the book. It placed: Runner Up, 2010 |
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AhrimanExterrestrial Prophet Prince Ahriman is accidentally sucked off his violent, alien desert homeworld to Earth along with his special abilities and fights his own to save his new home. |
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CloniensA secret cloning experiment, aimed at colonizing Mars, is unexpectedly needed to repopulate Earth. |
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TransmutersThey,-- cure cancer! Only if they can save their research. |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!meet The Devil!
An award-winning journalist who doesn't believe in God or the Devil interviews an author on these 'mythical' characters landing him in Hell calling for God.
and The Devil called!
The Devil walks the cold dark corridors awaiting the capture of God's Chosen-one to re-ignite the flames of Hell.
Murder in Emergency!
A dedicated nurse wages war on the hospital she fought to save on discovery of patients being murdered.
The Benefactor!
Incensed by predator bankers persecuting farmers, a business woman pays out their mortgages with interest-free loans in her quest to prevent murder/suicides on the land as she, dodges hitmen.
Pebbles on the Beach
Along a magical beach kicking pebbles through its sparkling waters, a boy becomes mesmerised by an apparition which materializes into the girl of his dreams.
Doors of Miracles
A young woman fearing another disaster hesitates in giving thanks to God, trembling, fighting fear, gives thanks and triggers Light descending from Heaven projecting her to its source to be returned with supernatural powers, miracles, and God speaks.
God's Warrior
God chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her of the dangers.
Untouchable!
An explosion rocks the corporate world when a blonde bombshell in stainless steel collides with the nation's most powerful man unleashing the relentless tiger within and with razor-sharp toothed pen sends him into oblivion.
LOVE LIST
Be Prepared For What You PRAY For.
Your Own Personal Haunting
Compelled to a house that terrifies him, a damaged man with OCD is challenged by spirits as he unravels the mysteries of his troubled life
