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Screenplays

For eleven years, I was a screenwriter and tilted at the windmill of Hollywood. I made one film entitled SOLOMON (currently on Amazon Prime; directed by JB Armstrong) and wrote nine others. Here five samples of feature scripts that I wrote. Enjoy!

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queen of hoards

Genre: Drama

“The simple note inside reads: kill the priest.”


Yusef, an Iraqi-American soldier, arrives to empty the hoard-filled farmhouse of his late mentor, Olivia, and finds a priest and three antagonists from his past. Olivia lured them to the house with the promise of a “life-changing gift” — but she really wants Yusef to repair these relationships. The problem? Yusef smuggled antiquities from Iraq and Olivia created the hoard in the house to conceal them.

And the priest knows all their secrets.

The priest was Olivia’s confessor and she told him everything. Yusef scrambles to heal old wounds as the priest threatens to expose everyone’s dirty laundry — he wants the house and its valuable hoard for himself. Yusef could give in to the priest’s blackmail, but would it be enough to protect his secret or save his friends?

Or is killing the priest Yusef’s best option?

– – – – >    To read this script, click HERE.

Out of Temper

Genre: Drama

Archie Clark was the most feared fighter to ever play pro hockey.

Closeted and now destitute, Archie takes the only job offered him — manager of Cocoa Power, a run-down Main Street chocolate shop. But the Mafia owns Main Street and Archie finds his fists useless as he battles to create a gentler life for himself.

And Johnny — the Mafia’s most ruthless hit man — is sharing Archie’s bed.

Johnny launders the mob’s money through Cocoa Power while enforcing their protection rackets. In a bid to protect his employees, Archie rallies the shopkeepers and regains control of Main Street — and the Mafia don presses Johnny to kill Archie. Both Archie and Johnny see the chance for a life together, but a loaded gun rests between them.

Seeking a gentle life may bring about a brutal death.

– – – – >    To read this script, click HERE.

Crossing the Red Line

Genre: Drama

One boy’s secret is another woman’s paycheck.

Adam Cooley — a closeted junior hockey player — covers up his secrets and sets his sights on the NHL Draft. When the league hires Beverly Haines to film a documentary about Adam’s team, Beverly seduces Adam with access to NHL scouts and the documentary quickly becomes the “Adam Cooley” show. Adam’s relationships with his teammates fracture.

Secrets — like sexual urges — are rarely buried for long.

Beverly digs for scandal. Adam denies a furtive romance with the team rookie, and Beverly manipulates their story for rating’s sake. As rumors swirl, gay-bashers cripple the rookie and Adam comes out to his teammates. But will he allow Beverly to record his biggest secret — his role in the death of his abusive father?

Adam’s NHL dream and a prison sentence hang in the balance.

– – – – >    To read this script, click HERE.

Human Animals

Genre: Thriller

Humans — one bad situation away from becoming animals.

As the country weathers a crushing depression, sociologist Kathleen Guerrero convinces racist city councilman Babylon Fisk to fund her experiment — placing indigents into a zoo enclosure and studying their interactions. When one of her subjects dies accidentally, opportunistic Babylon sees profit potential and broadcasts the death on line.

To ensure his new revenue stream, Babylon traps Kathleen in her own experiment.

As her subjects die one by one, online revenue skyrockets. Kathleen tries to end the experiment and hunt down the killer but Babylon stymies her to protect his cash cow. When Kathleen discovers that he hijacked the experiment to fill white supremacist coffers, she rallies the survivors in a desperate bid to escape Babylon’s cage.

If she fails, Babylon will kill them all as the world watches.

– – – – >    To read this script, click HERE.

The Wanting Well

Genre: Horror

Has your internal monologue ever told you to kill?

Brendan suspects that senator Joan Cannon drove his brother insane and sneaks into her campaign entourage to prove it. When Joan’s campaign bus dies at an abandoned farm, an alien voice infests the thoughts of her bare-bones press corps and Brendan stumbles upon its source: an ancient creature in a well capable of granting any wish — for a price.

Brendan fends off the creature’s suggestions, but others follow them to pleasure, possession and murder.

As the creature feeds on the weak-minded, Brendan races to collect the survivors and escape the farm. But the creature strengthens with every death and its suggestions become unbearable torture — healing a sister’s cancer; elevating a senator to President; or making an insane brother whole again. The price: death.

Is Brendan willing to pay that price, or will his own thoughts drive him insane?

– – – – >    To read this script, click HERE.

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