StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
LEARNING TO DRIVE by Linda Manning (CONTACT)
A fifteen year old girl, desperate to get away from her intolerable home life, has an affair with a disgraced golf pro, sending her on a voyage of self discovery.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
RED FLAG by Robert Rhyne (CONTACT)
A kind Nebraska school teacher forms an intense bond with the mysterious young man she rescues from a plane crash, taking him in until his family can be located, only to discover he may be a murderer.

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1st Place - Comedy
MACHINA by Thomas Radovich (CONTACT)
A forlorn, pathetic goth in his senior year of high school searches for his identity, so he creates an even more pathetic rock band.

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1st Place - Drama
OHIO FINCH by Chad Parsons & Wolfgang Bauer (CONTACT)
Summoned to Vienna to settle her estranged gay son's estate, a bigoted prude meets her son's "family" and comes to learn the real meaning of tolerance and unconditional love.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
LOCAL SUGAR by Andrew Garrett (CONTACT)
Mouse mayor Mary Lou, and her beau Sly Snake, fight back when a slimy land baron frog threatens to wreck the little bayou town of Sugarville -- and their wedding.

1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
THE DEAD MAN'S TALKING BLUES by J.G. Edwards (CONTACT)
A preacher new to a Kansas town discovers a rift in time from the future to the past. When his renegade brother hijacks the rift to change history for his own benefit, the preacher must decide whether to flee the resulting catastrophe, or try to reverse the evil his brother has done.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
SAYING HELLO TO THE DEVIL by BJ Williams (CONTACT)
A hit man journeys to rectify the past that haunts him by waging war against an overzealous gangster.

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2nd Place - Comedy
CRYBABIES by Marianne Wilner (CONTACT)
Crybabies propels you into the heart of a fractured family after the loss of their Grandma Honey as they finagle and fight; fly, drive, and fornicate across the country, eventually finding their way home to each other.

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2nd Place - Drama
THE CRACK IN PEGGY SUE'S FLOOR by John Woodard (CONTACT)
In 1944 racist Georgia, a black drifter saves a white recluse from her lecherous neighbor -- setting in motion a chain of deadly events and uncovering secrets better left hidden.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
FINDING DISTANCE by Jodi Levitan (CONTACT)
An angry, one handed fourteen year old girl struggles to find her place in the world until she discovers the sport of competitive fencing.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
THE FAD by Michael E. Bierman (CONTACT)
In a dark future where people self-harm for fame and glory, one Painer searches for the ultimate stunt to win his girl -- and uncovers a sinister government agenda.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
STRIKE A MATCH by Ross Raffin (CONTACT)
When a group of arsonists target a doctor for experimenting on animals, he must choose between his family's safety and research that could save thousands of lives.

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3rd Place - Comedy
MY MAN HAROLD by Paul Gulino (CONTACT)
Wealthy playboy Harold, sleeping off a partying binge in a car in a bad part of town, encounters Eva, a beautiful, idealistic social worker, who mistakes him for a homeless man -- smitten, Harold decides to play along...

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3rd Place - Drama
THE BED by Palmer White (CONTACT)
An American widower travels to France, and begins a passionate affair with a local woman. But their love is threatened by the ghost of his jealous ex-wife and the troubling revelation that his lover has secrets of her own.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
DARBY PETTY & THE LOST TREASURE by D.C. Sayre & W.G. Zahner (CONTACT)
Held captive by an underground clan of Celtic warriors, a sticky-fingered, young girl races against time, monsters, and murderers, to steal St. Patrick�s harp from a museum and save the world.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION by Philip Sedgwick (CONTACT)
After a communications blackout, two deep space astronauts discover that earth has been destroyed -- and they are the only humans left alive.

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