StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
CITY OF TREES by Christian Lybrook (CONTACT)
Bobby Burnham's life is best described as "the one that got away" -- the girl, the career, the family. Returning to his hometown to care for his dying mother provides a chance to rewrite the past, but a rekindled romance with his now-married high school sweetheart and resurfaced resentments with his outcast older brother push Bobby to confront hard choices about love and family.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
SACRED PROFANITY by Malcolm Wong (CONTACT)
In a dystopic near-future, a rogue journalist investigating the assassination of a spiritual leader must elude the death squads of both the U.N. Peacekeepers and the Divine Faith to find and reveal the truth.

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1st Place - Comedy
NANCYGIRL by David McMahon (CONTACT)
A middle-aged woman's obsession with a drag queen takes her and her best friend from Alabama to New York City on a journey that threatens to destroy her family and her husband's political ambitions.

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1st Place - Drama
A FATHER'S SON by Michael Harriel (CONTACT)
A father and son, estranged due to a family tragedy, battle to resolve their differences as they find forgiveness for the unfortunate events that haunt their past.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
ARIZONA SUNRISE by John Martins III (CONTACT)
In present-day Arizona, a teenage boy struggles with his parents' separation, as well as the death of his best friend, before eventually overcoming with the help of his basketball coach.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
FORGET-ME-NOTS by John Dummer (CONTACT)
As they await a supernova explosion that will end all life on earth, an astrobiologist and two uninvited guests at his island cabin must fend off an invasive plant from another world -- but is the plant a predator, or an interstellar lifeline?

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
TORNADO RIDER RHODES by Stevie T. (CONTACT)
Save the world from Nazis and ninjas, all in a day's work for this larger-than-life globetrotting cargo pilot, but when they target her hometown, the gloves come off and all hell breaks loose -- because nobody threatens your hometown.

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2rd Place - Comedy
HOTEL FLUGHAFEN by Guy Francisco Polin (CONTACT)
After falling in love with a severe bipolar woman, a man suffering from agoraphobia, who can only vacation in airport hotels, must overcome his phobias to ensure a future happiness with her.

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2nd Place - Drama
LONELY CREEK by Jared Raun (CONTACT)
In 1876 Wyoming, a fiercely independent woman works the family farm alone after her father dies, fending off a greedy rancher hungry for land, the unwanted romantic advances of the local marshal, and a vicious outlaw seeking shelter.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
JUMPING INTO HEMINGWAY'S POOL by Nick Roberts (CONTACT)
A Jewish husband drives his Baptist wife, rambunctious children and spinster neighbor across 1960s America to visit his parents in Florida -- despite being explicitly disinvited at the last minute by his intolerant mother...

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
ABSOLUTION by Brian Gerber (CONTACT)
After aliens send an asteroid to destroy earth, astronauts stranded on the moon struggle to save the human race from extinction.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
BOXER by Michael Riedel & Toy Lei (CONTACT)
When a retired assassin's location is exposed on National TV, not only must she evade the FBI but also protect her teenage son from her former employees -- who want them both dead.

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3rd Place - Comedy
NEXT IN LINE by Hal Harris (CONTACT)
On the eve of his Las Vegas wedding, a man struggling with crippling fear encounters a dynamic young woman who will unwittingly force him to reevaluate both his future and his past.

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3rd Place - Drama
BY THE HANDS OF WALLY VINE by David Warnock (CONTACT)
After his daughter's abduction and murder, Wally Vine meets a mother and child in an abusive family. As Wally seeks closure to his personal ordeal he fights to save his new, surrogate family from a violent future.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE TRUE FAIRY TALE OF THE MYTHICAL SUPERHERO by Leann Barna (CONTACT)
A street smart, but mediocre superhero is sucked into a fairy tale land, and must team up with a cowardly, but book smart princess to save both of their worlds from destruction, but their secrets and lies might cause their demise.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
AMAZON by Edward Pereira (CONTACT)
On a mission to infiltrate and deceive a peaceful settlement to steal high-powered weapons, a genetically advanced warrior finds a place where she belongs. But when her leader uncovers her betrayal, she must face down her old friends or else lose her new home.

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