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PLAYS, SCREENPLAYS, STORY IDEAS, CHARACTERS, DIALOG & EXCERPTS ARE
PROTECTED UNDER U.S. & INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW, AND ARE ALSO FULLY
REGISTERED WITH THE WRITER'S GUILD OF AMERICA. ANY ATTEMPTS TO UNLAWFULLY
DUPLICATE, DISTRIBUTE, COPY, OR SELL WILL RESULT IN PROSECUSION.
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LESBIAN
PORNOGRAPHIC
FEATURE
FILM
Faux
documentary
about
a
70s
porno
gone
missing
then
recovered
30
years
later
with
the
sex
scenes
deleted,
only
to
be
regarded
as
a
lost
cinematic
treasure.
(105
pages)
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a
scene?
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it?
DOCUMENTIA
(screen
version)
The
day
his
estranged
wife
is
reported
missing,
Karl
Banswick
begins
to
receive
mysterious
red
envelopes
containing
innocuous
documents.
Following
the
paper
trail,
he
is
soon
swept
into
a
network
of
people
searching
for
missing
loved
ones.
(124
pages)
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a
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it?
THE
BATTLE FOR CARLYLE
Fort Carlyle: 500 men,
700 townsfolk. Why did they all
fall out of contact? A troop of
U.S. Cavalry rides into certain
danger to find out. It's a cross-genre
Western in big Hollywood style.
(111 pages)
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TRAVEL
Why
are
there
two
Leo
Austins?
A
divorced
museum
employee
searches
for
an
answer
in
this
expanded
version
of
"Terminus."
This
time
travel
head-trip
is
sure
to
both
confound
and
entertain.
(91
pages)
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a
scene?
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it?
HORROR
ACADEMY
A full-length horror anthology play featuring
"Red Messages," "Everything's Different
Here," "Three Lines," and "Where
Is the Breakdown?". (71 pages)
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it?
RED
MESSAGES
Five two-minute monologues about horror.
(7 pages)
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it?
EVERYTHING'S
DIFFERENT HERE
A new clinic in a foreign land. Oh, and
cannibals. (26 pages)
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it?
THREE
LINES
Blood bank robberies and the subsequent
investigation. (26 pages)
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TERMINUS
Travel Agents, tickets to your past, and a man
stuck on a broken rail. (7 pages)
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WHERE
IS THE BREAKDOWN?
A car crash victim learns she's started a violent
plague. This one act drama features an all female cast and some
stage combat. Not for the weak of heart. (26 pages)
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TURN
SIGNALS
A series of car crashes plagues a city. In every crash,
husbands and children are killed, but the wives always survive.
A short film adaptation of a previously published story. (20
pages)
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THE
DOUBLE NEGATIVE
Two brothers take very different approaches to post-war
life in Europe. Pen Hartzog, a decorated fighter, works hard in
his tailor shop and tries to forget the violence; Martin Hartzog
rails publicly against oppressive thugs haunting their small town.
Their affections for the same woman and one's consuming secret
make for an epic drama of flawed human choices. (170 pages)
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SUB-GENRE
A husband searches for his missing wife in an abandoned
hospital. On his journey he meets a cryptic guide, a sex-crazed
girl, a competing suitor, and a pioneering doctor who decapitates
his patients. A story of double-crossing nightmares and the potential
for corrective, rat-run surgical enhancements. (51 pages)
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FILMSTARS
How do you create filmstars? Take two B-list actors and
pair them together in an A-list picture. Problem is, these two particular
filmstars used to be in love. Now they're not. And the A-List picture?
It's a downer set in a prison, written by a nobody. Can two scheming
Hollywood agents pave the way to cinema history, or is it just the
desperation talking? (85 pages)
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WATER PRESSURE (screen
version)
The film adaptation of the play. See below for story synopsis.
(108 pages)
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THE WHITE AIRPLANE
A Pittsburgh man finds himself in the body of a Japanese
typist, whose wife has been reported missing. What are the links between
this strange occurrence and the crash of a white airplane on the English
countryside? A dream-like story of life and circumstance, told as human
drama, mixed with absurd comedy, with jabs of sex and violence. (96
pages)
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WATER PRESSURE (stage version)
Four wealthy widowers form a club to discuss time travel.
From this simple beginning, their actions become tragically linked to
the fractured futures of their four daughters. (93 pages)
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TWO GIRLS KISSING
Sisters of a convent are suspected in the death of their
male overseer. An investigator arrives, using manipulation and intimidation.
Under his methods, the sisters protect each other while burying their
secret even deeper. (94 pages)
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THROW THE CONTROL DARTS
Henry Pravel is a gamesman, a salesman, everything but a
comfortable host. His neighbor, Clayton Keller, is a past-his-prime
novelist working on a depressing new piece about Waterloo. Lula Pravel
is Henry's wife, a beautiful woman full of mystery and subtle signals.
These three very different and very lonely people are brought together
by Control Darts, an expensive home system where a person's mind controls
the throw. If only they could read each other's thoughts, the evening
might actually turn out well. (70 pages)
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DOCTOR MORTEER MEETS THE PROFESSOR
Missing children return days later, but years older, leading
an aging English Professor to abandoned laboratories, a strange machine,
lost library books, a mysterious doctor, and on a trip through time.
It's a family adventure movie, with a nod towards the mad scientist
movies of the 40's & 50's. (127 pages)
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HORRORTHON
A young New Yorker, grieving for the recent death of his girlfriend,
finds solace at a thirty-six hour horror movie marathon. Locked-in with
the crowd, it soon becomes clear that this isn't just a celluloid history
of fright, but a surreal game of cat and mouse. The gimmick is, it's a
horror movie about horror movies that the viewer will watch at the movies.
And no, there are no vampires. (101 pages)
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NIHILISTS
Six orphaned teens are brought to a futuristic downtown for
testing. When the building is put in blackout by an air raid, they learn
that not everyone is who they're pretending to be, and a violent game of
double-cross ensues. (111 pages)
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SCREAM TOGETHER/CRY ALONE
Two failing con artists cook up a scheme to bilk the governments
of the world. They begin a campaign to get everyone on the earth to
scream for one minute. When the idea catches on, and money comes rolling
in, inner conflicts and jealousies flare up, and the political consequences
of their plan threaten the entire world. It's an over-the-top satire
with themes about money, loyalty, politics, and throats. (121 pages)
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THE ESSENTIALS
A romance starts in the line of grocery store during a power
outage. (10 pages)
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WUNDERKIND
A tense short play set in a newspaper office. (8 pages)
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Please Note: Other, crappier
scripts also available -
including THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, which I wrote when I was 12. Embarrassing.
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