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Photos by Michael Good
A Polaroid camera takes disturbing pictures as a couple begins to fade out of existence.
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5pp
8 readers love this script
One-Hit Wonder by Harker Jones
A cab driver takes a former pop star on a one-way Twilight Zone–like ride.
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7pp
1 reader loves this script
Sparkler by Rob Herzog
Bike stunts, booming fireworks, and a blowtorch are part of a family’s wild Fourth of July.
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13pp
1 reader loves this script
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11pp
3 readers love this script
Survival First Inc. by Steve Miles
As the world edges closer to social collapse, two security professionals market a post-apocalyptic protection service for concerned liberals.
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7pp
3 readers love this script
Melville by J.B. Storey
When a jaded federal agent uncovers a supernatural enforcer doling out justice against the worst of humanity, he must decide whether to uphold the law or embrace an unholy alliance forged in hell.
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18pp
Rockstar
12 readers love this script 
Mirror by Dan DeVoto
A geneticist carries an important message when she travels to meet a research subject cloned from her DNA.
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6pp
2 readers love this script
The Girls from Epanema by Ralph Shorter
A greedy, overbearing man prowls through his house in search of a place to murder his mother-in-law for the insurance money, but his submissive, browbeaten wife and mother-in-law have plans of their own.
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5pp
4 readers love this script
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7pp
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13 readers love this script
Maybe Not Mars by Brandon Stephens
An astronaut on Mars searches for the cure for a new kind of boredom.
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6pp
5 readers love this script
Lyssa's Child by Steve Miles
A psychologist records the daily life of a recluse who claims to be stalked by a malign entity.
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13pp
7 readers love this script
The Tasting Room by Steve Cleary
A hapless tasting room associate struggles to make heads or tails of an urbane couple's poetic, pretentious and scathing wine tasting notes.
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6pp
8 readers love this script
Motion Sensor by Anthony Cawood
An outdoor security light makes this homeowner feel suddenly less secure when it starts to activate unexpectedly.
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2pp
Rockstar
Snowbound by Ra Inta
After escaping the snow, an idyllic childhood dramatically comes to an end -- in many ways.
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5pp
5 readers love this script
Make You Believe by Elvira Drake
A loud-mouthed professional skeptic is shaken after a psychic channels his late grandmother who gives him a warning, which he doesn't heed, much to his detriment.
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7pp
3 readers love this script
SatNav by Anthony Cawood
A woman's infidelity takes her on an unexpected journey when her scorned husband hacks her car's navigation system.
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2pp
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1 reader loves this script 
The Tooth Fairy by James Barron
An enthusiastic young girl is about to learn the Tooth Fairy always exacts a price.
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1pp
2 readers love this script
Go Fish by Kirsten James
It's the 1930s, two ten year old boys spend the evening in the family hunting cabin, playing cards and drinking beer. It seems like fun until the reality of the day catches up with them.
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10pp
8 readers love this script
Dads by Ralph Shorter
An altruistic, elderly gentleman tries to save a young prostitute from life on the street.
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8pp
3 readers love this script
Sentient by Tina Balli
A man awakes on a dinghy, and questions his awareness, when a mermaid appears.
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2pp
11 readers love this script
Undying Love Triangle by Darren Seeley
When two vampires have an affair, a murder plot unfolds. But the over-the-hill wife isn't that easy to kill.
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6pp
1 reader loves this script
Damn Your Eyes by Steve Miles
A paranoid recluse fighting to expose mass government surveillance finds a truth far more insidious than he ever dared believe.
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9pp
5 readers love this script
An Angel Whispers by J.B. Storey
A cynical, downtrodden reporter investigates a small-town supernatural tale, that must be believed to be seen.
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22pp
Rockstar
10 readers love this script
The Putt Putt Preacher by Jason K. Allen
The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course.
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11pp
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2 readers love this script