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Work / scripts

Different stories.
Same handwriting.

12 features. 4 shorts. One writer.

Thrillers, dark comedies, family damage, science fiction, military stories, relationship stories, and a Shakespeare adaptation.

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These are not the newest, the loudest, or arranged by market category. They are the current front door.

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09 / FEATURE

KING OF THE DEAD

A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.

01 / FEATURE

NOBODY LEAVES

Still carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.

05 / FEATURE

SOULECHO

In the near future, a grieving husband uses an AI service to reconstruct his dead wife, but when the model reveals she may have been planning to leave him, he must choose between preserving the version he needs and accepting the woman he never fully knew.

06 / FEATURE

MILES APART

A struggling husband runs the Honolulu Marathon beside the wife who plans to leave him, hoping 26.2 miles can save their marriage before the finish line becomes the end.

16 / SHORT

ME, THE DOG, AND THE DARK FOG

A suicidal man’s carefully planned final night is ruined when his ex-wife drops off a tiny dog — and the little bastard refuses to let him die.

FEATURES

Premise, character, genre, grief. The taxonomy is useful. It is not the point.

01

NOBODY LEAVES

FEATURE / SUPERNATURAL THRILLER / PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA / 80 PAGES

Still carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.

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02

THE BATTLES OF BIRDTOWN

FEATURE / FAMILY DRAMA / MUSIC DRAMA / 98 PAGES

  • Semifinalist — Atlanta Film Festival
  • Finalist — Richmond International Film Festival

When his disabled mother dies, a bitter musician returns to the Missouri town he fled and collides with the father, friends, and dead soldier brother he left behind, forcing him to decide whether grief will remain his excuse for never making music — or coming home — again.

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03

STANDBY

FEATURE / INTIMATE DRAMA / MARRIAGE DRAMA / 106 PAGES

  • Quarterfinalist — Richmond International Film Festival

When her husband’s estranged father dies, a Korean-American psychologist tries to keep her depression-prone spouse connected to life as funeral debt, a faith-based inheritance ultimatum, and their elderly dog’s medical crisis turn one loss into a test of how much grief a marriage can carry.

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04

PIBBLE

FEATURE / ADULT DRAMA / ANIMAL RESCUE THRILLER / 178 PAGES

After a gentle pit bull bred for fighting refuses to kill and is discarded, he bonds with a withdrawn maintenance man; when a dogfighting network targets their makeshift refuge, both must decide whether survival can become a home.

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05

SOULECHO

FEATURE / NEAR-FUTURE SCIENCE-FICTION DRAMA / 133 PAGES

In the near future, a grieving husband uses an AI service to reconstruct his dead wife, but when the model reveals she may have been planning to leave him, he must choose between preserving the version he needs and accepting the woman he never fully knew.

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MILES APART

FEATURE / RELATIONSHIP DRAMA / 102 PAGES

A struggling husband runs the Honolulu Marathon beside the wife who plans to leave him, hoping 26.2 miles can save their marriage before the finish line becomes the end.

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07

THE RESERVIST

FEATURE / PERIOD COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA / MILITARY DRAMA / 95 PAGES

  • Finalist — Richmond International Film Festival

A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.

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09

KING OF THE DEAD

FEATURE / SOUTHERN GOTHIC FANTASY / FAMILY DRAMA / 155 PAGES

A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.

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10

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY

FEATURE / ENSEMBLE DRAMA / GRIEF DRAMA / 84 PAGES

  • Second Rounder — Austin Film Festival, 2025

A young widow gathers her late husband’s closest friends in Joshua Tree to scatter his ashes and record memories for their infant daughter, but the camera exposes how every one of them — including her — mistook digital connection for actually showing up.

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HERE FOR THIS

FEATURE / SOCIAL THRILLER / DRAMA / 125 PAGES

A broke Atlanta couple take over a murdered Black hardware owner’s storefront to launch a vintage shop, then uncover a gentrification scheme linking their benefactor to the killing — and turn their business into a public trap before the town erases them too.

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12

BRICKHAUS

FEATURE / ENSEMBLE DRAMA / DARK COMEDY / 115 PAGES

After a former infantryman dies by suicide, the men who served with him reunite at his rural cabin to clean out his life — only to discover that the brotherhood they mythologized may be the thing keeping another one of them alive.

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13

ILLYRIA

FEATURE / CONTEMPORARY SHAKESPEARE ADAPTATION / URBAN DRAMA / 131 PAGES

During a pandemic-era sweep of Skid Row, a disgraced doctor turns the block into a controlled storm to confront the brother who stole his clinic, but his sheltered daughter’s bond with an EMT — and the community he claims to protect — forces him to choose revenge or release.

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SHORTS

14

THE TWILIGHT

SHORT / APOCALYPTIC DRAMA / TONE POEM / 20 PAGES

  • Semifinalist — Richmond International Film Festival

In humanity’s final hours, a dying man crosses a silent landscape to his family’s graves, recording the life they shared for whatever might one day find the ruins.

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15

KEEP DRIVING

SHORT / DRAMA / SCIENCE FICTION / 19 PAGES

  • Official Selection — Richmond International Film Festival, 2025
  • Quarterfinalist — Richmond International Film Festival, 2026

On the anniversary of his daughter’s death, a grieving rideshare driver accepts a lucrative fare to the middle of nowhere, only to discover that his strange passenger may not be human—and needs him to reach a rendezvous before midnight.

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16

ME, THE DOG, AND THE DARK FOG

SHORT / BLACK COMEDY / DRAMA / 30 PAGES

  • Semifinalist — Nashville Film Festival
  • Second Rounder — Austin Film Festival
MORE RECOGNITION

A suicidal man’s carefully planned final night is ruined when his ex-wife drops off a tiny dog — and the little bastard refuses to let him die.

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17

LONGING FOR DEATH

SHORT / GOTHIC FANTASY / DRAMA / 25 PAGES

An immortal recluse who has spent centuries waiting to die rescues a mother and daughter from a crash, then faces the cruel possibility that saving the child may give him a reason to live again.

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COMPLETE
SLATE.

  1. 01NOBODY LEAVESSUPERNATURAL THRILLER / PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA / 80 PAGES
  2. 02THE BATTLES OF BIRDTOWNFAMILY DRAMA / MUSIC DRAMA / 98 PAGES
  3. 03STANDBYINTIMATE DRAMA / MARRIAGE DRAMA / 106 PAGES
  4. 04PIBBLEADULT DRAMA / ANIMAL RESCUE THRILLER / 178 PAGES
  5. 05SOULECHONEAR-FUTURE SCIENCE-FICTION DRAMA / 133 PAGES
  6. 06MILES APARTRELATIONSHIP DRAMA / 102 PAGES
  7. 07THE RESERVISTPERIOD COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA / MILITARY DRAMA / 95 PAGES
  8. 09KING OF THE DEADSOUTHERN GOTHIC FANTASY / FAMILY DRAMA / 155 PAGES
  9. 10HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELYENSEMBLE DRAMA / GRIEF DRAMA / 84 PAGES
  10. 11HERE FOR THISSOCIAL THRILLER / DRAMA / 125 PAGES
  11. 12BRICKHAUSENSEMBLE DRAMA / DARK COMEDY / 115 PAGES
  12. 13ILLYRIACONTEMPORARY SHAKESPEARE ADAPTATION / URBAN DRAMA / 131 PAGES
  13. 14THE TWILIGHTAPOCALYPTIC DRAMA / TONE POEM / 20 PAGES
  14. 15KEEP DRIVINGDRAMA / SCIENCE FICTION / 19 PAGES
  15. 16ME, THE DOG, AND THE DARK FOGBLACK COMEDY / DRAMA / 30 PAGES
  16. 17LONGING FOR DEATHGOTHIC FANTASY / DRAMA / 25 PAGES