StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
LULLABIES FOR LIEUTENANTS by David Carren & Frank Cox (CONTACT)
Adapted from Franklin Cox's award-winning book of his duty as a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam, Lullabies for Lieutenants captures the surrealism, pathos, humor, and beauty that defined a low point of the American experience.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
LATTER-DAY SHAKEDOWN by Scott Robert Waldvogel & Matt DeMartini (CONTACT) (WEBSITE)
When a devout Jehovah's Witness is mistaken for a mysterious killer known only as "The Mormon," he is kidnapped by the mob and finds himself a witness of a much more dangerous kind.

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1st Place - Comedy
AMERICAN BUDDHA by Andrew Quinn (CONTACT) (WEBSITE)
Tibet meets Tinseltown when the next Buddha is born in Hollywood. Now an unhappy monk must guide an aloof American girl to enlightenment.

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1st Place - Drama
GOTH GIRL by Martin Ponferrada (CONTACT)
When an enigmatic PI unexpectedly admits himself into rehab, it is up to his eager but inexperienced assistant to take the call when skeletal remains are discovered at a remote building site.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
DECKED by Brent Hartinger (CONTACT)
In the four kingdoms of Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds, where people are ranked by numbers, a group of lowly "twos" tries desperately to stop the Queen of Spades from overthrowing the other kingdoms.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
IMPULSE by Dylan Brann (CONTACT)
Two Harvard graduate students studying J. Robert Oppenheimer's research on quantum teleportation are hunted through time by a mysterious woman and the police force following her while trying to stop the Multiverse from collapsing into ruin.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
LOST CAUSE by David J. Schroeder (CONTACT)
Pete Berger, medically retired explosives expert, fights a private war to salvage a lost nuclear bomb, while fighting Black-Ops terrorists off the coast of Florida.

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2rd Place - Comedy
THE WHEELMAN by Derek Asaff (CONTACT)
After a rule-loving student driving instructor is carjacked and forced to help a bank robber evade the police, he is recruited into the high-speed world of getaway driving for a group of elite thieves.

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2nd Place - Drama
ONCE WHEN YOU WERE MINE by Richard Dane Scott (CONTACT)
An autistic young man falls in love with a mentally ill patient and takes a job as a janitor at the hospital to be close to her. Along the way, he not only has to protect her from a vengeful Mexican mafia, but also inadvertently helps heal all the other patients around him.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
CATCHING CLAUS by Kevin Murphy & Joseph Murphy (CONTACT)
After being ridiculed by his classmates for still believing in Santa Claus, a young boy hires the help of a 'professional' to prove the kids wrong by capturing jolly old Saint Nick.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
FIX by Nathan Wilcoxen & Amy Greischar (CONTACT)
A heroin addict participates in a top secret lucid dream study to avoid a lengthy prison stretch but is thrust into a deadly battle against the formidable biotech company administering the trial when he discovers they are using him for their own nefarious objective.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
TRINKET by Ron Meade (CONTACT)
A man descends into madness when he starts taking advice from a seductive teen who is secretly bent on his destruction.

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3rd Place - Comedy
JULIUS V by Steve Guettermann (CONTACT)
Julius V, the Catholic Church�s popular and charismatic pope, must save the papacy from its greatest enemy, a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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3rd Place - Drama
CHIMERA by Travis Opgenorth (CONTACT)
An orphan longing for a family escapes forced prostitution by assuming the life of a missing girl whom she resembles, and is taken in by the family, only to discover a dark secret that turns her dream into a nightmare and puts her life in danger.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
ICE DRAGON by Paul Bayford (CONTACT)
A father desperate to save his comatose daughter finds himself engulfed in a fantasy world with magicians, talking squirrels and a dragon that breathes ice. He at first does not believe it, but soon discovers this fantasy world is the key to saving his daughter.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
VALDFELLGAR by Thomas J. Daniell (CONTACT)
A powerful and determined swordsman is sent back through time to slay malevolent vampires hidden throughout history in an effort to protect the future, his daughter, and avert the apocalypse.

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