PESTILENCE
Zoe Ohrbach and Brian Snyder are Silicon Valley techies struggling through a pandemic of a new variant of Mad Cow affecting deer, moose, elk, etc. Despite warnings, people continue hunting and eating toxic venison. It was only a matter of time before the disease jumped to humans—a zoonotic “spillover.” Like all prion diseases, it is incurable, untreatable and unpreventable. The new disease, called “Acquired Prion Sociopathy Syndrome (APSS) causes first psychopathy and, inevitably, death. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe Adapted from my novel, Twisted Fate, showcased online pre-publication: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/
Elle Fanning
50ish man, avuncular but dangerous
Andromeda Strain
The Day After Tomorrow
Linda Boroff Film and Fiction Bio With References 650-996-2750 I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. My coming-of-age short story published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, was optioned to Sony and director Brad Furman. I'm represented for literary, film and TV by agents Sandstone Artists—Tammy Hunt and Jamie Bradley Below is a link to my short stories published in Cornell University, Dartmouth, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, Gawker, and many other publications.
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Post Your Script Here!Between the Salt and the Sky
A small Portuguese fishing village in 1942 is on the edge of a war that seems far away.
Undue Influence
An unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a wrongful death law suit.
BUMPED
A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
A HAPPY LIFE
A gentle, autistic man with a gift for communication with pelicans and talking smiley-face balloons reaches a breaking point when a houseful of freeloaders consumes his life—and his lifelong dream of opening a one-of-a-kind bed and breakfast—forcing him to attempt the only escape he can imagine: faking his own death.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Palo Alto Bang & Burn
When idealistic professor Will Reynolds joins a clandestine government program researching remote viewing, his faith in science and reality unravels as he discovers truths that feel ripped from science fiction.
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING AND THE HUNT FOR JACK THE RIPPER
In this prequel to Dracula, Francis Tumblety, a.
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING AND THE HUNT FOR DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the renowned scientist, doctor, and spiritualist, returns to pursue a friend, the brilliant physician Dr.
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
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