Feature film screenplays and short scripts, tv pilots / movies and limited series / miniseries in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark satire.
All projects have been adapted to or were adapted from novel/novella, available in paperback, large print, ebook, hardcover and audiobook. Most titles have placed well in screenwriting and literary competitions.
All screenplays copyrighted and registered with the WGA.
We will provide industry professionals wishing further information with synopses, bibles and/or screenplays for any of the projects below.
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Media: Feature
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Life, the world and the neighborhood as seen from the sage and sensible perspective of 80 yr/old Gordon and his friends.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature
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Connelly is sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Two years in, his mission is not what he thought it was and the future no longer exists.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature
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Thirteen-year-old Jack and his sister Amanda go in search of a mythical cavern their grandmother went looking for fifty years earlier… when her brother Bill was lost, never to be seen again.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature
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John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades’ local television station, where he must deal with strange characters and stranger programming.
All the more bizarre, he arrived just in time for Founder's Day.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature
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The year is 1964. Thirteen-year-old Ben Foster and his friends explore the strange goings-on in their isolated neighborhood, with each discovery bringing them closer to uncovering the incredible secret underlying Ravenhill Court.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature (both live and animation scripts available)
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Thirteen-year-old Jim survives a fiery crash landing in the desolate landscape of ShadowWorld, only to come face to face with bizarre aliens, mystifying cultures, and an unforgiving planet as he searches for rescue.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature
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A cluster of old buildings sit isolated on a quiet, desolate plain. Overhead, the sky is a smear of reds and purples, a shell enclosing the world. Here, strangers who have banded together for survival must strike out into the alien wilderness in search of a way home.
Genre: Science Fiction (post-apocalyptic thriller)
Media: Feature
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In a post-apocalyptic landscape, a band of marauders unexpectedly finds itself on the receiving end when it attacks a nomadic caravan and discovers the intended victims are not at all as they appear.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Feature / TV movie
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A simple, eight room motel sits isolated on a lonely desert highway; a disparate group of residents live in this ethereal world, a world now threatened by a powerful research facility seeking to retrieve their property: residents with powers of their own.
Genre: Science Fiction / Film Noir
Media: Limited Series
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A soldier returns home to the damp, gray streets of Willow City to search for his missing brother. Willow City, one of the eight authoritarian city-states of the Federation. Willow City, a world of dark secrets and shadowy characters.
Dystopian science fiction in an atmosphere of black and white fifties film noir. Two-hour series pilot.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: miniseries
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Brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming invasion of Earth. Intelligent, epic science fiction, screenplay was the winner of the Pacific Northwest Screenwriting competition.
Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction
Media: miniseries
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"I bequeath to my nephew all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life’s quest will become his quest. "
-- Those few cryptic words send Jake into a world that couldn’t possibly exist. Traveling the Gateways, he will befriend the eternal Guardians and stand against an ancient enemy.
Top-ten finalist in an international screenwriting competition.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Limited Series (11 episodes)
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Scientists & soldiers travel the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force behind the creation of the looming monolith.
Ep 1 placed semi-finalist in the LA International Screenwriters Competition.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Webseries (seven 20-min episodes)
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Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small escape shuttle, find themselves adrift eighty years in deep space. This is the story of their journey home.
Ep 1 placed top three finalist in a recent webseries screenwriting competition.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Webseries (six 10-20 min episodes)
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The Bridge Crew is a six-episode science fiction webseries with one set, five characters and minimal CGI. The entire series takes place on the bridge of an exploration starship with CGI displayed on the forward viewer, the five characters working at their assigned duty stations.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Webseries (five 6-12 minute episodes)
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A family explores a world suddenly devoid of people, in search of an answer.
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
Media: Limited Series (5 one-hour episodes)
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Matthew and Jennifer Sutherland, father and daughter, wage a secret war against a hidden society of immortals with extraordinary abilities, a society Sutherland House once dominated. Now estranged from the other Primary Families, they are all that stands between humanity and the mysterious, terrifying agenda of the Society.
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Short Script
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A tiny cemetery is home to four disparate spirits. Their eternal existence is disrupted when a new arrival appears at the gate and no one is quite sure what tomorrow will bring.
Recently placed Finalist in a fantasy short script competition.
Genre: Horror / Macabre
Media: Short Script
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Four elderly friends, withered and gray with age, get together at a lonely community hall after fifty years apart; something they do every fifty years...
Adapted from a short story originally published in Necrology Magazine, Tales of the Macabre; appearing later in several collections.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Short Script
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A man traveling the empty landscape of world’s end seeks refuge for the night in an abandoned house in a middle-class neighborhood, and comes face-to-face with his solitude.
Adapted from a short story appearing in a number of collections.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Short Script
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Six people from very different backgrounds are being held prisoner in a large, dark cell, a single circle of light in the center of the room. Most have come to accept their fate… Paul slowly comes to realize that something is very, very wrong. Heavy TZ influence.
Genre: Fantasy / Victorian Fairy Tale
Media: Short Script
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In the age of the Demon Lord, goblins and fairies, a family must face the arrival of the Darkness to their idyllic valley, home of Waterfall of the Fairies. Little Sarah may be their only hope.
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Short Script (6 pages, ultra-low budget)
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William is sitting on an old wooden bench on the banks of a small lake in an unknown landscape. His last memories are of what he assumes were the final moments of his life: his own death.
Genre: Science Fiction
Media: Short Script
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Survivors at a spaceship crash site struggle with the realization that they will not be going home, but yet hope to complete their delivery.
Genre: Drama / True Story
Media: Short Script
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A twelve-year-old boy goes on a hunting trip with his grandpa in 1968. It would turn out to be their first and last hunting trip together, and the week would forever change them both.
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
Media: Ethereal Anthology Series Pilot
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Deep within the subconscious mind of The Writer dwells The Storekeeper, residing in an old, weathered general store and train station. The Storekeeper welcomes those arriving and guides them on their way to the stories waiting for them further up the line.
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Television Series Pilot
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Episode One Logline: "Last Day at Sharp Park"
A family of wizards explores a hidden world that was taken out of the physical realm by a six-year-old boy with extraordinary powers and find the boy and his grandma haven’t aged a day in half a century.
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