Screenplays

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Girl at Sea – How does a happy, naïve 14 year old girl become an agent for Death and Justice?

Girl at Sea is a coming-of-age novel for adults and mature young adults. Beth, 14, once a normal, happy girl, and her crewmate, Silas, 45, a former SEAL, have lost their families to violence. They sail the S Pacific, seeking solace for their grief.

They do find new love, but Death has a task for them. When Beth’s best friend joins her in Australia, followed by her ruthless father, Beth, now a confident, strong, young woman and Silas discover where Death’s Journey is leading them.

Helltown – Logline: In Helltown, a hard-boiled detective sent to retrieve misplaced souls finds himself on the trail of his own killer who is the key to saving himself, Hell, Life, and possibly Heaven from true Evil.

Soul Retrievers - Logline: A Soul Retriever is hired to go into Hell and retrieve the soul of a ten-year old girl sent down by Purgatorial error.

Hungry Baby – Logline: Forced to kidnap a pregnant woman, 3 bank robbers  find themselves at the mercy of a mother, her unusually hungry baby, and their pets.

Fear Killer – Emily has never in her life scared anyone. Timid, abused and left at home alone, she survives an attack from an intruder. Emily sees fear in her attacker’s eyes before he dies. Giddy with the feelings of power and invulnerability, she revels in the moment and wants to experience it again, and again, and again.

Harsh Magic – Logline: Betrayal forces a young runaway witch into a Labyrinth where she must quickly learn the ancient Harsh Magic to prevent underworld Demons from taking over the Light.

St Helen’s Ghost – Logline: In order to save the ghosts of an old psychiatric hospital, a troubled female Marine veteran must defeat the 100 year old ghost of the doctor who performed sadistic research on them.

Last Bank Down – Logline: A woman becomes a bank robber to seek revenge against her bank owner father and her ambitious husband.

Time for Love – Logline: A woman invents a different way to go back in time to try and prevent the murder of her husband. Despite opposition and betrayal from friends, family, and colleagues she finds the love she seeks, but not where or when she planned.

Shorts:

The Last Child – A new insecticide goes very wrong, causing nothing new to be born, hatched or grown. The Earth is dying.

The Custodian 1,2,3,4 – He’s a regular guy doing a regular job at a slightly irregular Elementary school where strange, and dangerous things sometimes happen: