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The Hound and the Fox

Cunning Mickie is in prison for murder. Abby is his pen pal; a lonely mother and abusedwife.

When Mickie convinces Abby to visit him, he uses the opportunity for a brazen escape,taking Abby hostage. Abby!s gentle nature and concern for her son make her acompliant prisoner.

After making a clean getaway, Mickie has no long term plan. But Abby does. Sheneeds to keep Mickie away from the police long enough for help with her problem: Her

violent and abusive husband. Her intended solution involves Mickie!s particular skill set:

murder.

Love Post Modern

An idle Wife feels lonely and unloved. Husband is distant and quiet. Wife creates adating profile online to feel attractive again, but keeps her identity hidden.

Wife meets a rich Stranger online. Interesting and obsessed, but married. Thrilled withthe power and the seduction, the Wife convinces the Stranger to kill his wife, so theycan be together.

When her Husband tries to poison her, with something she recommended online, sherealizes the wife is her. She!s not sure if that means love or hate.

The Adjuster

A hard luck young waitress named Mary receives a visit from a strange lawyer. Heinforms her that several multi-million dollar life insurances policies have been taken outin her name. Many people will get very rich if she dies. He gives her a thousand dollarsand tells her to run.

After dodging bullets and seeing her car explode, Mary realizes that running is going tokill her eventually. So she teams up with a Insurance adjuster from the life insurancecompany named Mitch, a real badass.

Together, they hunt the principal on the life insurance policies, a senile old man withconnections to her late father, who is the crux of the conspiracy. A bank robber andmurderer, he was killed in a shoot out with the cops.


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Her late father!s Partner survived however, and used the money to get a start in localTexas politics. Now the Partner is the most powerful politician in Texas, and ready tomove on to Washington. The only thing standing in his way is incriminating evidencehidden a long time ago, in a safe deposit box with Mary !s name on it.

Zyklon

A team of archaeologists uncover an unfinished Nazi concentration camp deep in theforests of Poland. This camp is different than others, built with strangely ornate andgothic buildings, including a sinister temple to an unknown god.

One ambitious archaeologist theorizes that this camp was the Nazi !s last ditch effort towin World War 2, built specifically to perform a diabolically ritual: resurrect Hitler andrestore the Third Reich.

The project director already knows this, because he!s secretly working with the camp!s

original designer, now 104 years old. Both devout Nazi!s, both want to see the ritualcompleted. But they need an ambitious young archaeologist's help, and a few human

sacrifices.

Foster City Streets

An overworked, overstressed, and lonely Social Worker wonders if one of her fosterkids might be a serial killer after a string of young girls disappear.

Or she wonders if she is falling for the tall, dark, handsome detective. So much so thatshe starts hoping someone will go missing just so she can talk to him. To hold his hand,

she might go even further than that.

Cycle

A strange mailman obsessively watches the people on his route. Carefully choosingcertain victims, the mailman poisons a piece of mail for each, then abducts the victimsto a ranch in the middle of nowhere.

The victims come to at the ranch, and realize there is no way out. They realized theyare kidnapped prisoners, and begin to panic.

But slowly they will appreciate the idyllic moments of the simple life. Growing plants,tending to the animals, finding human companionship. Connections missing in theirtypical lives.

After thirty days and nights, the mailman opens the gate, allowing the prisoners toleave. Now free, they don!t want to go back. But they must. It!s part of the cycle. Theymust find others.


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Afterlife

A young woman crashes her car on a remote stretch of highway. She is saved by amysterious bearded man who stays with her until the cops eventually arrive.

The near death experience changes her. She finds spiritual peace, but also a strangeobsession to sabotage cars. So others can share her experience.

A police detective investigating the accidents is shot and almost killed when he is visitedby the bearded man. His obsession becomes shooting someone. To let them find findthe peace he!s found.

Their interweaving tales will ultimately reveal the bearded man!s identity: the GrimReaper. And he has recruited them.

Portrait of a Murder

A brash director is looking for an actor to play the lead role in his movie. The part is fora young husband, who!s recently lost his wife to murder.

The director believes his potential masterpiece will only be properly served if he can findan actor who has really suffered the murder of his actual wife.

But the potential list of actors is very small. None of them meet with the director!sapproval. To move forward with his work, he must find the actor, then murder the wifehimself.

After being inappropriately hounded by the director for months, the widowed actor finallyrelents, believing the role will be cathartic. His performance is so masterful and lovedby critics, the actor decides to stop worrying about the similarities between his wife !smurder and the movie!s plot.

The Bargain

Three childhood friends scrape by a living working in a Pennsylvania coal mine. One ofthe friends always dreams big. And his current get rich scheme involves finding gold inthe jungles of Panama.

He talks his pals into pulling up stakes and moving their families down to CentralAmerica. They sink all their money into a small mining claim and simple tools.

Hardship strikes. The claim produces nothing but clay and broken drill bits. One of thechildren contacts malaria.

The two more reserved friends drown their sorrows with alcohol and prepare to turn onthe third, for getting them into this mess.


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When they find him, he is finishing a strange deal with a mysterious man dressed inblack. He promises their luck has changed. And it does. They strike gold the next day.And miraculously, the child sick with malaria is completely cured.

The gold is money beyond their wildest dreams. But before they leave Panama, theywill have to pay their side of the bargain, an equally high price.

Love with a Bullet

An angry loner named Luke obsesses over guns and writes fiction about blowing up hishigh school. This attracts the unexpected attention of Amy, the prettiest girl in school,and they bond over their shared hatred of Washington High.

As they become closer, Luke finds his new crush is melting his anger away, as hard ashe tries to hold on. Which is hard, because Amy is more and more obsessed about

bringing his fictional stories into the real world.

Before the big day, Luke discovers Amy!s dark secret: the most popular teacher inschool is abusing her. Luke will pre-empt their plans to shoot up the school togetherwith a plan of his own: take revenge on the teacher that did this to her.

The Countdown

In the future, a space station is built into the crust of a distant moon to observe a lushplanet below. Due to a careless test, the coolant system for the on board nuclearreactor fails, leaving the station inevitably doomed within seven days. (The same

situation that destroyed Chernobyl.)

The crew members become neurotic, stressed beyond their limits by the unendingcountdown and flooding radiation. Ultimately, when faced with the chance to save thereactor but die from radiation, they instead choose to flee, leaving the station to explodealong with the moon, even though this fate will ruin the planet below as well.

Their madness prevents them from realizing they are fleeing Earth!s moon, whoseimminent destruction will end human life as we know it.

Dog Days

Luther is a loner, wandering the back roads of the America south, trying to escapememories of a dirty war and guilty acts.

A beautiful woman named Ivy finds him on the side of the road and picks him up.

Luther!s next memory is waking up, covered in blood. So much blood. Ivy!s blood. ButIvy!s body is missing.


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Before he can escape, Luther is discovered by Ivy !s daughter Megan. The cops arriveand Luther is thrown in jail. He doesn!t know if he is innocent or guilty, but he knows heis certainly capable.

Two weeks later, Ivy reappears, showing scars but otherwise okay. She claims Lutherattacked her, but because of the confusion of charges, Luther is granted bail.

Luther is tracked down by Megan at the outbound bus stop. Something is wrong withher mother Ivy. She!s different.

Together, Luther and Melissa investigate Ivy!s two week disappearance, a trail thatinvolves Ivy!s secret work for the Department of Defense, and ultimately to Ivy!s deadbody.

The new Ivy is a sophisticated impostor, running a conspiracy involving human

trafficking and grisly experimentation at the behest of a ruthless pharmaceuticalmagnate.

Shiva

A poor coyote smuggles illegal immigrants across the Mexico/U.S. border to feed hisfamily. One day, he gets an offer from a mysterious America woman. She needs tomake five trips, but is willing to pay a ridiculous sum for his services.

The coyote is suspicious of the things she!s bringing with her, but he needs money.Only after she murders fellow immigrants does he tell the authorities. But no one

believes a coyote. So he has to cross into America and stop her plan himself: Torelease chemical weapons across the SW United States in a massive false flag terroristoperation.

Love for Murder

A professional but guilt ridden killer finally meets the man of her dreams, a soft spokenbut gritty photo-journalist. The only problem: he is her next target. Someone importantdoesn!t want his next story to hit the press.

She chooses love and retires, but finds herself bored and uncertain about her coming

marriage.

When a hit almost claims her and her fiance, she must become the killer once again,and save them. But the killing reawakens something in her, and she wonders if she willever be satisfied without it.

Virus Chasers


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A young doctor works at a San Francisco HIV/AIDS clinic, where he is shocked to seehis former girlfriend, now deathly ill. The doctor tests himself, and discovers he too isHIV positive.

A frightening new contagious disease strikes the San Francisco homeless population.

The afflicted bleed from every orifice, become aggressive, and suffer excruciating pain,before finally succumbing.

The disease is so contagious that nearly everyone is afflicted, except miraculously theAIDS patients, including the doctor. He realizes that HIV/AIDS provides immunityagainst this new disease, and must decide whether to willingly infect the lines ofdesperate people forming outside his door.

Fat Cat

In the future, food is scarce. Fields are fallow. Livestock is so rare a cow is worth

millions. Only the richest can afford it.

The rest of the population survives on Syntho, food which looks and tastes like plastic.It causes teeth to weaken and fall out; skin rashes; headaches; etc. This breedsdiscontent amongst the masses. Led by a young firebrand reporter named Maro, theyare ready to revolt.

The government has a solution to quell the uprising: a new type of food called Proto.It!s grown in a lab, but it!s a completely organic process. The food tastes better andsolves the malnutrition caused by Syntho.

Problem solved, but Maro is suspicious. He discovers the source of Proto: reclaimedhuman excrement. The poor are literally being fed the crap being flushed by the rich.

11:01

Molly is on her honeymoon, which she is going to celebrate by BASE jumping from theThree Gorges Bridge. During the descent, her parachute malfunctions and she slamsinto the ground below.

The next moment, she wakes up in her hotel bed next to her husband. It!s the morningof the jump, she!s still alive, and assumes her previous experience to be a dream.

The moment of the jump, her parachute malfunctions again, and her life ends on thesame patch of rocky ground.

The next moment, she wakes up again, preparing for her jump. This cycle will repeat,until Molly realizes that somehow, she has been given a second chance, and decidesshe has to cancel the jump.


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But while driving home, Molly is killed in a car crash, at the same moment her jump wasscheduled. Again, she wakes up in bed, day starting over. No matter what she does,life will find a way to kill her a 11:01. She will realize this is not a second chance, but aliving hell.

Cutting Parts

Mitch is a macho baseball player losing his career to bum knees. Next he loses his wifeto another player and his fortune to alcohol.

Blaming his knees, Mitch develops Body Integrity Identity Disorder. He has anobsessive belief that his knees don!t belong on his body and dreams of having his legsamputated.

Doctors refuse to help and Mitch sinks to rock bottom, where he meets a pre-optransexual named Lolly with a similar problem. Doctors refuse to remove Lolly"s man

parts because he a diagnosed schizophrenic.

These two men unexpectedly bond. Together, the head to Mexico, chasing down arumor of a Doctor willing to cut anything. But is their problem more than their unwantedparts?

Double Blind

A wife named Jill travels the world as a high power pharmaceutical executive. But that!sa cover for her real identity: CIA interrogator. Part of the cover is her boring lawyerhusband, Stanley.

The CIA orders Jill to travel to Poland, to a CIA black site. They have just captured amember of the newest terror threat: IRIS.

Jill begins her gruesome work of torture and interrogation. But when she removes theprisoner!s hood, she finds her husband Stanley underneath.

Stanley also has a secret identity, which he!s used to hack into Jill!s CIA connectionsand compromised all her work.

Jill must hide the security leaks she!s allowed to happen, while at the same time

rescuing Stanley. She!s so impressed with his trade craft, she!s finds herself falling inlove for reals.

Daddy!s Little Girl

Amy is an abused mother struggling to raise her three kids. When her husbanddisappears, she assumes he!s run off with some whore. She never calls the police.


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Two weeks later, Amy notices a smell coming from underneath their mobile home. It!sher husband!s corpse. She almost calls the cops, until she realizes her daughter isacting strange.

Amy wonders if her daughter could possibly be responsible. She!s barely 14 and barely

100 lbs. How could she kill a grown man?

She couldn!t, Amy decides. She cleans up the mess and refuses to ask questions.

What she gets is another body, a missing Sheriff!s Deputy, decomposing underneath theupturned kiddie pool.

Trauma Eyes

Izzy is a cocky young med student. She performs a botched experimental lobotomy ona young homeless kid, turning him into a raving lunatic.

Ten years later, Izzy is still traumatized by the experience. She!s become a coroner toavoid as many (living) people as possible.

She thinks she!s finally put the past behind her, until the bodies of doctors and nursesstart showing up frequently in her morgue; each one dead from brain injury.

Around the city, other doctors and nurses become raving mad, also suffering braininjury. Izzy realizes is must be her first patient, the one with the half carved brain. Andthat means she!s responsible.

Clarity

Two stories split together:

The first story follows a pair of scientists. They are among a handful of survivorsfighting against a Zombie apocalypse. Together they race to find a cure before their labis overrun.

The second story follows the same two scientists, Pre-Apocalypse. They are young andbrash, as they develop a miracle drug to make human immortality a reality, while fallingin love in the process.

The intertwine of stories reveals the scientists cure the Zombie Plague, then revealsthey are actually the cause.

Gas Chamber Love

Ronny has an irresistible crush on his beautiful dorm mate. She is out of his league, buthe learns she has a strange obsession with serial killers.


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Ronny changes his major to forensic science. He hopes that if he becomes a serialkiller, he might have a chance with his crush after all.

He just has to get over being squeamish, and his fear of blood.

The Blackmail Club

Jess leads a club of high school girls dedicated to blackmail. They ensnare teachersand parents with pictures of compromising situations. The money flows in....

Until the new principal shuts down their operation, threatening to send them to jail. Jesstries to seduce him, to compromise him. But the principal is not interested. He!sinterested in something much worse. Murder is the only thing that turns him on, andJess is his new target. So many people want her dead, it!s an easy frame.

A Spire to Windward

Mary is a young psychiatrist working in a mental ward. Allen is an incorrigible mentalpatient, mired in the delusion that he!s spent most of his life kidnapped by Aliens.

Mary believes the delusion is a defense mechanism, a fiction invented to protect Allenfrom traumatic childhood memories; something to which Mary can relate. They bondover shared stories of loneliness, similar except Mary!s are from backwoods Louisiana.Allen!s are from a UFO, flying past Alpha Centauri.

A heavy smoker, Mary is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Not knowing what else to

do, she continues working, trying to hide her condition, her friendship with Allenproviding comfort.

But Allen says he can do more. He can cure her. He just needs to be let out, so he canaccess a radio telescope and contact his Alien friends.

Raging Gun

Walter is a lonely single father raising a teenage daughter in Sacramento. When a drugoverdose leaves her in a coma, Walter snaps and turns vigilante, using skills learned in

the army. His justice is swift and gruesome. His target is anyone who deals drugs.

Liz is the detective assigned to the case. She!s a lonely single mother raising a troubledand addicted teenage son. She!s poised to arrest Walter, until she sees the positiveeffect he!s having on the cleaning up the city!s drug problem.


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When her son goes clean rather than risk the wraith of the unknown Vigilante,something she!s tried and failed herself for years, Detective Liz wonders if Walter mighthave the right approach after all.

Rapture

Nick and Jane are longterm sweethearts. Marriage is the next step, but their extremereligious differences make it difficult. Nick is a devout Catholic, Jane is an atheist.

This difference comes to a head when a red star appears in the night sky, and peoplearound the globe begin to vanish into thin air. Extreme weather causes flooding andfamine. Outbreaks of bird flu and ebola kill large numbers of people.

Nick declares it the Rapture, proof of his beliefs. He and Jane are the next to vanish.

They reappear in Heaven, with the rest of the vanished. Everyone looks young,

healthy, and happy. Every need is fulfilled.

But clues will to reveal to Jane that this Heaven is only a facade. The truth is: Aliensare taking over the earth, while they are stuck inside an Alien prison ship.

Kids World

Max and Katie are two former child prodigies. They meet in a mental asylum fordisturbed teenagers. Each will be the first friend either of them has ever had.

Together, they decide it!s the adults that are in wrong for keeping them locked up. With

the help of their ward mates, Max and Katie put the adults on secret trail.

The verdict is guilty. Punishment: poison the staff with the same medicine they like todish out.

But they are not going to stop there. Now free, Max and Katie decide every adult isguilty. They have plenty of evidence. And plenty of supporters.

My Guardian

A drug dealer overdoses and dies. But modern medicine resurrects him 10 minutes

later. Ten minutes after that, he walks out of the Emergency Room, looking for his nextfix.

Outside, he finds a beautiful woman crying. She is his Guardian Angel, but she!s beenfired. Her only chance to redeem herself: keep him alive for the next 30 days. But shewill have to do it as a mortal.


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Without a Guardian Angel to protect him, the world is a dangerous place for a drugdealer/addict. Fortunately, a beautiful woman doesn!t need to be an Angel to havemysterious powers.

The Straight Man

Willy is a careful burglar. He stakes out the property long beforehand, waiting for theperfect moment. Right now he has his eye on a beautiful Victorian. Loaded with riches.Easy access through the old garage door.

Willy makes his move. But the house isn!t empty. He finds a woman being attacked;she!s begging for help. Willy grabs a fire poker and strikes. One... Two... Three... Theattacker falls to the floor, dead.

The woman cries, thanking Willy for saving her life. Then she hands him a $5000 brickfrom her purse and tells him to run. Because Willy just killed a very powerful man.

This time, Willy is too slow, and the police get there first. Willy is caught--red handed.After he is arrested, the woman changes her tune, refuting Willy!s claim of self defense.

Willy escapes from jail, knowing he is the only one who can get to the bottom of thismess. If they catch him, he!s going down for murder.

Drowner

Michael!s wife just left him. But their marriage was broken the day their daughter Juliawent missing. Now he spends his time haunting the Internet, searching for anything

about his daughter. He spends the last of his money of private investigators. But thesearches are always fruitless, until today.

Michael finds a trace of Julia in the Pacific Northwest, supposedly involved in a cult leadby a strange man named Alyzar.

Michael finds Alyzar, but not his daughter. Alyzar explains that Julia had undergonetheir most sacred ritual, and the non-initiated are forbidden from seeing her.

Under Alyzar!s sway, Michael is convinced to partake in the final ritual himself. Alyzarwill hold him underwater until he drowns. He will then be brought back and allowed to

see his daughter.

Public Relations

A handsome young drug kingpin named Robbie decides to retire while he still has achoice. He finds the Hollywood nightlife suits him much better. Until pictures of his gorycrimes splash across the tabloids. Soon, everyone everyone hates him. He!s a socialpariah.


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Livia is the town!s best P.R. shark. She doesn!t think Robbie!s image can be changed.He gives her an unlimited budget and challenges her to try.

Soon, Robbie is feeding the homeless, building women!s shelters, providing

scholarships. Everything. Robbie is so popular he!s thinking about running for mayor.He wants to do real good.

But no drug dealer is going to rule Los Angeles. A special police squad is formedspecifically to take Robbie down, by any means necessary.

Early Release

Lenny is a brain surgeon who is unjustly imprisoned for murder. In his cell, Lenny laysawake, night after night, listening to the sounds of the prison jungle. He is the only oneto notice that some of the prisoners are being taken out at midnight, then brought back

before morning.

Soon, a long list of prisoners is on the early release program. All are participants in themidnight field trips. Lenny wonders if he can join. Until they take his cell mate.

When the cell mate returns, he is different. More compliant. There are tiny bruisesaround his eyes. Lenny recognizes them as a sign of arthroscopic brain surgery, atechnique perfected by Lenny himself, and his partner.

A device to control behavior has been inserted into the prisoners !brains. But prisonersare just the test phase. Phase two will have them inserted into anyone who is arrested.

World War Y

A small time band of college terrorists spend their time vandalizing statues andmonuments to famous women. They call themselves the Left Hand. They hatewomen.

Opposing them is a group of women who hate men just as much: Eve Rising.Whenever the Left Hand strikes, Eve Rising strikes in revenge.

The two groups, typically non-violent, come to blows when they confront each other in

front of an exhibit featuring images of Cleopatra. One man is killed, and one woman.The non-violence is over.

Eventually, hoping to stop the escalating violence and avoid the police, the leaders ofboth groups come together. The firebrand Jacob, and the seductively manipulativeBethany. While trying to underhand each other, both fall head over heals. But love issomething their groups will not accept.


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The Last Recess

Melissa just graduated with her teaching credential. Now she is Turner Elementary!snewest teacher. Most rookies start out as substitutes, but Mrs. Sanders died veryunexpectedly and the school needed an immediate replacement.

Teaching is a challenge but Melissa is a natural with the kids. Except for a peculiarlyformal boy named Thomas. Melissa knows something about the boy is different.Maybe he is being abused?

Thomas is different because he is not a little boy. He!s 11 on the outside, but his brainwas made conscious in a lab 35 years ago. A brain in a tank was trained to be aruthless killer, then transplanted into a little boy.

Next year, Thomas will move on to Junior High. Attending the same school as thePresident!s youngest daughter. Thomas!s mission will be to kidnap, and potential kill

her.

But first Thomas has to make it through fifth grade. He!s having trouble acting like a kid,and it!s making people suspicious. Especially Melissa, who!s starting to think Mrs.Sanders death might not have been an accident.

The Peace First Massacre

It!s 2015, and the U.S. has invaded North Korea, forcing the government to reinstitutethe draft. Protest movements break out across the country.

Janus is a charismatic philosophy major at Kensington State. His calm demeanor andeloquence have thrust him to the head of Peace First, the college!s protest movement.Karina is his girlfriend. She sees Janus!s unlimited potential, where he does not.

Peace First gains followers, but has little real impact. Karina starts believing thatJanus!s dedication to non-violence is a mistake. At a massive gathering scheduled forMemorial Day, Karina will change the policy.

She hires an ex-Russian sniper named Vlad. During the protest, he fires on the policefrom a hidden spot, implicating the protestors. The police fire back, killing 24 unarmedstudents.

With no evidence of the sniper, the dead students are seen as martyrs. Masses rush tojoin Peace First, giving it real power on the national stage, enough power to stop thewar. But Janus will discover what Karina has done, and be forced to decide what peaceis really worth.

Sea Wars


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Captain Emily Archer is the first woman given command of a Nuclear Attack Submarineby the U.S. Navy, the USS Seawolf. Her shakedown mission: investigate amalfunctioning sonar array at the bottom of the Vostok Sea.

While the sub is traveling through the Pacific deep, the earth is attacked by Aliens,

crippling the government. When Captain Archer eventually discovers the situation, FirstOfficer Edwards will demand a retreat, under threat of mutiny.

But Captain Archer will continue her mission, realizing that the damaged sonar array ishiding the Alien mothership. Destroying it will end the invasion in one stroke, but shewill have to evade the Russians and the Chinese just to get there.

The Diablo Valley Disaster

1971 - Three mile island. The worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history. A level 5containment breach. In response, Congress bans construction of new nuclear facilities.

2015 - Diablo Valley. Dr. Marcus is an eminent nuclear physicist with powerful friends.He has successfully lobbied for the repeal of the nuclear power ban, and prepares toopen the first such new facility in the U.S. in forty years.

Nadia is an engineer working to ignite the uranium fuel rods in the core. She is the firstto notice a problem. Strange radiation is streaming through the lead shielding of theexperimental reactor core. It!s causing strange behavioral problems amongst theengineering teams.

Lt. Paulson is in charge of the National Guard platoon protecting the plant. Nadia

insists he implement evacuation procedures, but Dr. Marcus proclaims everything isunder control.

Three people, from three different levels of command, with three different motives, willwatch the disaster unfold. Dr. Marcus will cover it up, Nadia will be the first witness thehorror firsthand, and Lt. Paulson will be stuck in the middle.

Chernobyl was a Level 7 nuclear disaster. This will be something completely different.The victims are not dying, they!re changing.

Excision

Dr. Conroy is head of the Advanced Genomic Research Laboratory. They have mappedthe human genome, and are now preparing to clone an extinct animal, the woolymammoth, for the first time.

In the midst of the project, Conroy wakes up severely mentally disturbed. A psychiatristdiagnoses acute onset Schizophrenia, and Conroy is confined to a mental hospital.


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Conroy will sort through his delusions, and realize the source of his mental disturbanceis a brain operating on the same wavelength as his own.

One of his colleagues has secretly cloned Conroy. The clone and the original share thesame thoughts, which manifests as severe emotional disturbance.

Conroy will have to find his clone, and destroy it. In the process, he will realize he isonly a test subject, and clones for several powerful individuals, including the President,are being prepared for roll out.

The Hades Event

Maxwell is the head of the government!s top secret biological and chemical weaponsprogram. In the middle of the night, Max is rushed to a secret meeting in the OvalOffice. Three large asteroids have impacted the earth. The areas are remote and the

initial damage is minimal.

The real disaster is the dust kicked into the atmosphere. Without proper sunlight, plantsand trees across the globe are dying. The CIA chief predicts the global oxygen supplywill be depleted in less than thirty days. Deaths from suffocation will begin soon.

Max is given a simple order, develop a pathogen to reduce human population, in themost humane way possible, before everyone is dead. Maxwell understands theimpossible situation, and gets to work. His partner Allison is having a harder time withher moral qualms. She suspects the government!s motives are sinister.

The Tallahassee Two Step

Michael is a professional thief. But his last job went south. He and his girlfriend Amberwere forced to split or face arrest. She took the diamonds, and Michael took to theroad, leading the cops away.

Now Amber is missing, along with the diamonds. To sustain himself, Michael must pulloff another score. His target: a small time bank outside Tallahassee. An easy job.

Until word of the plan leaks to the local sheriff. During the robbery, Michael is

surrounded, setting up a hostage situation. But Michael is crafty and charismatic. Heknows many of the hostages are farm owners who have suffered at the hands of thebank.

Michael will recruit the hostages to his own side, against the corrupt Sheriff. But one ofthe deputies is Michael!s lost love Amber. She has her own reason to be concernedabout the bank job, namely $50 million in diamonds stored in safe deposit box under a


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dead man!s name. Money she has promised to split with the Sheriff if she can get it out,because now is the perfect chance.

Parasite

Matt is a smart young Boston doctor, doing research at a pharmaceutical company.Allison is his fiance, a lawyer. She is normally utterly professional and organized, butshe begins to change as the wedding date approaches, becoming sensuous, absentminded, and childlike. Her strangest new compulsion is a desire to see the PacificOcean. A desire that is slowly becoming overwhelming.

Matt notices the rats in his lab also share an obsessive need to go west. He realizes hehas infected his wife with a parasite. Now she is infecting others.

Matt tries to prevent her from leaving. But Allison is more sure about this then she!sever been about anything. She!s found her mission. She!s at peace. And she!s gaining

followers. She!s also knows the law and Matt can do little to stop her.

They reach the Pacific. Led by Allison, the hordes of infected throw themselves into theocean in a mass drowning. But the drowned are not dead. Underwater, they arechanging.

In nine months, these new humans will suddenly emerge from the ocean, with the goalof infecting every human on earth.

The Deputy

Sheriff Maxwell is brand new to his post in the small town of Truth and Consequences,Arizona. A gang of outlaws set up shop outside of town. They are protecting theAmerican end of a secret tunnel crossing under the border to Mexico and controlled bya ruthless cartel.

When Maxwell attempts to intervene, two deputies are assassinated and Maxwell !spregnant wife is put into a coma.

The Sheriff is looking for a particular sort of justice so he heads to the supermax prisonlocated in his jurisdiction.

Vincent is the prison!s most dangerous inmate. He!s currently waging a one man waragainst the Mexican Mafia, the group controlling the prison, so his interests neatlycoincide with the Sheriff!s.

Sheriff Maxwell will take custody of Vincent, and make him a Deputy, and allow him toweave a path of destruction. Stopping him will be harder.

The Jack of Hearts


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Mick is a detective in the Las Vegas Police Department. He gambles his life savings ona spin of the roulette wheel, and wins. He uses the money to buy his new wife Amy thehouse of her dreams.

Happily ever after, until Amy is stricken with a rare disease which destroys her heartvalves. She needs a heart transplant, or she will die. But Amy has a very rare bloodtype. Finding a suitable donor in time will be next to impossible.

Mick does not like the odds, so he finds he own solution, starting with a surgeon in debtto the mob. Mick can clear the debt, in exchange for an off the books surgery.

The hardest part will be finding a heart with the same rare blood type. Mick starts withthe criminal blood records in the statewide database. He finds the ex-con with the hearthis wife needs, and he extracts it.

Amy is fully cured by the transplant. In fact, she is stronger then ever. But herpersonality is changing to match the brutal ex-con whose heart she carries.

Oceans

The Medusa is a small fishing trawler out of Hawaii, led by the brash young CaptainEvert. His first mate is Sam, a disgraced doctor with a pregnant wife and no where elseto turn for work.

Out at sea, Evert!s foolhardy actions lead the boat into hurricane, and the Medusa isshipwrecked on a desert island. The boat!s electronics and engines are totally

destroyed, and the crew is stranded. When no rescue arrives, they realize they mustfend for themselves.

After casualties, the crew learn to survive on the island, embracing a more primitive wayof life, while Sam comes up with an audacious plan to turn Medusa into a sailboat. Aworking sail is finally built, and the surviving crew return to sea triumphant.

The journey home on the sailboat Medusa is treacherous. She runs into anotherhurricane. But thanks to Evert!s self sacrifice, Medusa survives, and eventually findsher way home.

Medusa pulls into port, and Sam can see his wife standing on the pier, crying, staringout at the ocean. She is mourning his death. Sam rushes to embrace her. But hisarms go right through her, because he is a ghost, along with his crew.

The Midnight Patrol


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Amber is a rookie cop working her first graveyard beat for the Detroit PoliceDepartment. Matt is her formidable, veteran partner. He has heroic tough guy statusamongst the DPD, and Amber idolizes him.

While responding to a typical crackhead freakout call, Amber lets down her guard and

the crazed junkie attacks Matt, biting him on the arm. Matt is forced to shoot and kill.

Matt begins to change, developing hyper acute senses at the ability to feel humanpresence through walls. He!s the most effective cop on police force.

But Matt starts to become sick, unable to keep down food and confined to his bed. Thedoctors find nothing wrong, but Matt is developing an overwhelming craving for blood.

Amber has a connection at a blood bank. She steels a supply and learns how to injecta transfusion into Matt!s arm. Slowly she nurses him back to health, falling in love in theprocess.

But Matt!s craving is getting worse. Amber finds him drinking the blood supply, andobsessing over drinking from a warm human, like her.

Amber loves Matt, but the only way they can be together is if she infects herself.

Flashlight

Nick and Katie are urban explorers. They discover a secret laboratory buried deepunder Manhattan. It is filled with old reels of 8mm film contained handheld footage of a

secret government program from the fifties. Operation Flashlight.

After the Los Alamos nuclear tests in the 1940s, a strange boy was born in nearbyAlbuquerque. He is the first human to demonstrate scientifically verified telepathicabilities. But he discovers other powers as well. Super strength, imperviousness toinjury--a literal super human.

Nick and Katie watch the films in order, and it becomes obvious problems arise as theboy gets older. He can be seen talking to himself, and showing erratic bursts ofemotion. Then the film abruptly ends.

There is a vault in the center of the lab. After Nick and Katie finally manage to open it,they find a solid lead and granite sarcophagus inside. The boy was sealed within longago, to grow into a man inside the box, waiting for someone to find him.

Stealing Gravity


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Elliot is a brilliant young college physics major with a gambling problem. Now he can!tpay his tuition and his ruthless bookie Marty is after him.

To solve his problem, Elliot invents a machine able to make small changes to the theeffect of gravity in a localized area. He installs it under the basketball court. By

strategically turning his machine off and on, Elliot can affect the outcome of thebasketball games.

Elliot!s bets on his college basketball team, and they are always winners (at home.)Marty is suspicious, so is the NCAA competition committee. But so is Elliot!s girlfriend,a fellow physics major. Her tests reveal the orbit of the moon is changing. If thegravitational anomalies continue, a global catastrophe will result.

Ozarkia

Four students of an American Evangelical College are sent deep into the AppalachianWilderness, a land of strange rituals and customs, to spread the word of God.

But the students are shunned, led by a strange minister and his congregation, and runout of town. The students believe this is a test from God, and secretly return.

Using a handheld camera, the students secretly document the practices of this strangechurch, including a funeral, during which the minister raises a dead body back to life,creating something like a zombie.

The students are split on whether this is a religious miracle, or an abomination. They

will have to decide soon, because one of their brethren is dying, and the rest will have todecide whether she should be resurrected.

The Compliance Factor

Five astronauts are sent to explore Saturn!s icy moon Europa. The journey is fifteenyears, one way,so the crew are put into cryo-sleep for the extend of the trip.

As the spaceship approaches Europa, an ice volcano on the surface erupts, slinging-shotting the ship back towards earth. Fifteen years later, 30 years total, the crew willfinally awake from cryo-sleep and find themselves back home, their trip a failure.

But the earth is different. The world IQ has dropped precipitously, and now the smartesthumans have the mental capacity of a normal ten year old. Most people work do meniallabor, mostly digging mines for an unknown purpose. The government provides foodand shelter. Cheep, fake, and processed, designed to appeal to kids, like evert aspectof society.


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The astronauts will discover a contaminate in the water supply. A contaminate originallyfrom Europa. Their trip has brought something back, and they have been asleep a lotlonger than 30 years. Secret alien overseers are forcing humans to search forsomething deep in the earth!s crust, something lost a long time ago. Sometime to allowthe aliens to reclaim the earth for themselves.

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