StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
THE GREY WOLF by Michelle Daniel (CONTACT)
When the U.S.S. Houston comes under unprovoked missile fire in the Black Sea, the U.S. National Security Council sends a talented Delta Force commando to investigate, suspecting Russia to be behind the heinous crime.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
TURBULENCE by David Poulshock (CONTACT)
When a brilliant mathematician uses the theory of turbulence to prove a famous painting is a forgery, an underworld art dealer tries to have her killed.

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1st Place - Drama
COMEDIENNE by James Pickering (CONTACT)
A fresh-faced comedienne is taken under the wing of a grizzled veteran and together they attempt to heal emotional wounds.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
ROBO4CE by Jeffrey Howe (CONTACT)
A smart but shy eighth-grade girl learns about programming, confidence, and even love when she competes in a national robotics league.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
A STITCH IN TIME by Linda Ujifusa (CONTACT)
When time travelling researchers accidentally bring Alexander Hamilton to the future and leave their wealthy financial backer in the past, they must make Hamilton repair history and save American democracy -- in spite of himself.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
THE PICKUP GUY by Vandon Gibbs (CONTACT)
A struggling L.A. actor turned loan enforcer finds his life turning into an action movie after a botched job makes him the target of a criminal kingpin.

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2rd Place - Comedy
BRING BACK THE KING by Todd Crawford (CONTACT)
Down-on-his-luck chauffeur Cliff Sparks is in the for the ride of his life when he picks up a pair of passengers involved in a violent Elvis cult.

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2nd Place - Drama
MURDER BALLAD by Sam Thomas (CONTACT)
Texas noir about a guilt-haunted gangster who stumbles for love as he puts his neck in the noose to try and save an old friend from the singing the blowtorch blues.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
SWANS HAVE ANGEL'S WINGS by Stephen M. Hunt (CONTACT)
Toby is a lonely young boy trapped in his shattered family until his amazing bravery inspires his paraplegic father into sobriety and the family reunites.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
STRANGE ATTRACTORS by Patrick Hatten (CONTACT)
A probability predictor that is 99% accurate leads a young man to riches -- then predicts his chances of surviving another day are less than 4%.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
A STRANGER IN BARCELONA by Bobby Glenn Bell (CONTACT)
A fugitive mercenary recruits young backpackers into a smuggling ring until a terrorist recognizes him from his bloody past.

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3rd Place - Comedy
ONE ARMED BANDITS by Bruce Dundore (CONTACT)
When a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome challenged Hitwoman realizes she can�t shoot straight anymore, she seeks to get out from under her increasingly crazy Casino owning boss by staking a slot playing savant to win her enough money to disappear and winds up falling in love with him, only to be told that the last hit that will free her is on him.

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3rd Place - Drama
MOCK TRIAL by Jamee Decio (CONTACT)
A disgraced and emotionally damaged lawyer escapes his troubled legal past by teaching in an inner city school, where he shows little regard for his students, until a top scholar-athlete is wrongfully charged with murder.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
VALENTINO by Laura Hesse (CONTACT) (WEBSITE)
A blind girl and a Native boy struggle to survive after being shipwrecked on opposite sides of a desolate west coast island in the middle of winter.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
EVITABLE by Jack Matosian (CONTACT)
A man determined to cheat death reawakens in a future world where people no longer age, get sick or die. But when he discovers a small group of endangered humans and falls in love, he is forced to choose between immortality and a woman hell-bent on keeping her humanity.

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