StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
THE 49th DAY by Craig Peters (CONTACT)
A little girl's imaginary friend starts killing her family off one by one. But what can you do when you're only seven, and Death wants to be your best friend?

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
THE REVENANT by Steve Pratt & Stephen Irwin (CONTACT)
A vampire assassin, sent to enforce an ancient pact with the church forbidding human-vampire relationships, finds himself on the run, protecting an innocent human child..

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1st Place - Comedy
MINDBENDER by Nicholas Horwood (CONTACT)
Barry Barker is a lovelorn teenage geek who spends his days delivering leaflets for a STD clinic - until he is inexplicably struck down by a meteorite and develops telekinetic powers. He is soon terrorising criminals as the less than super hero: The Mindbender!

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1st Place - Drama
SEASON OF MISTS by Kevin Stuart Brodie (CONTACT)
A Kurdish refugee living in Boston seems to have found happiness with a Christian man-until a grave case of mistaken identity and the arrival of a pivotal figure from her past forces her to decide in which world she belongs.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE FISHERMAN & HIS WIFE AND KIDS by Michael Kaplan (CONTACT)
A man catches a magic fish and carefully wishes for the perfect life for his wife and children...until they discover his secret.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
PERIPHERAL VISION by Phyllis Heltay (CONTACT)
An undercover agent with psychic abilities is distracted from a counter-terrorist mission when the ghost of a missing local girl appears in his visions. His obsession with her murder threatens his own life as he exposes the dark secrets of a killer.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
HOG HEAVEN by James T. Frazier (CONTACT)
After the Air Force's top fighter pilot, a tough-as-nails female, is blackmailed into dogfighting for the entertainment of wealthy gamblers, she must find a way to destroy Hog Heaven, or die flying.

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2nd Place - Comedy
CHRIS GAINES SAVES THE WORLD by Donald Driscoll (CONTACT)
Two friends must travel cross country to kidnap country music superstar Garth Brooks and convince him to take up his failed rock alter-ego "Chris Gaines" once again in order to stop a malevolent supercomputer from destroying all mankind.

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2nd Place - Drama
RETRO by Cynthia Webb (CONTACT)
A young girl drags a recluse hippie out of self-imposed exile to help her stop the war in Iraq.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
TOUCANS OF THE AMAZON by Donna Lisa (CONTACT)
A flock of rowdy toucans, banished to the lower forest, must rely on an outcast female to escape the fearsome Night Creatures and return to the sunshine of the lofty forest canopy

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
MITH by Apollo Villa-Real & Larry Ridlen (CONTACT)
An amnesiac detective awakens in a bizarre world where everyone has superhuman abilities except him.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
BISHOP'S GAMBIT: ENDGAME by Matthew Altman (CONTACT)
A lonewolf assassin must team up with a woman from his past he shouldn't trust, and an innocent young woman, in order to face his mentor, the deadliest assassin alive.

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3rd Place - Comedy
IT'S A BIG TOP WORLD by William Bienes (CONTACT)
In a world where clowns are a racial minority, a father with amnesia must remember his past before a clown-mafia leader claims his family and puts him six feet under.

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3rd Place - Drama
PINK'S by Mark Tusher (CONTACT)
Sharp-witted USC honor student turned gang leader is en route to assassinate California U.S. Senator Jack Denali, the man he holds responsible for the death of his younger brother. His plans begin to unravel when the high profile attorney he takes hostage turns out to be a mirror image of his former self compelling him to rethink his deadly mission.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
WHITE ELEPHANT by Susan A. St. Peters (CONTACT)
A troubled teen graffiti artist, sentenced to community service with the elephants at the circus, gradually comes to realize his true calling.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
MINUS MEN by J.R. Taylor (CONTACT)
After Barack Obama is elected president, terrorists travel back in time to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in an attempt to change history and ensure slavery survives to this day.

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