Category: winning screenplays

It’s not the kind that pours from a cut or memorializes itself as a scar. There is no wound to dress, no story of a fall or fight to explain it away. It is a constant, quiet seepage from some internal fault line I have never quite located. It simply exists. A rust-colored testament to… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: There is Blood on my Hands, by Yemanja Paula

Sitting in front of my desk, I stare at the lifeless reflections on the windows on skyscrapers, where there is supposed to be the moon. At my hand, the great grassland in Hulunbuir sits quietly in an old photo — It was morning. The sky breathed to redraw the land where waves of swaying grass… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: LOST SKIES, by Yuan Wentao

The marks on my body will tell you all about me, All you need to know anyway. For, even if you hear my story, you won’t listen. Those nights I spent on white linens, They mean nothing to you. I am but a box. Nothing to think outside of. Only the stains, and taints, are… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: Written in Stone., by Kailey Cruz

In amber lamplight of earliest memory, I’m sitting on your lap in print footie pajamas, turning the pages of Mother Goose. I was so young when we lost each other, sundered by divorce. Over and over I woke from nightmare crying out your name, powerless to bring you back. For years, I could only finger… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: Letter to my Father, by Deborah Bachels Schmidt

When we were whole My brother and I laughed with mirth Jumped without reason Spending smiles carelessly as if without worth Hugged and touched and kissed one another Fairies fairly magically inclined Surreal soaring youthful wonder Diwali lanterns floating personified When we were joined We never would know That we would splinter And maybe never… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: When We Were Whole, by Sawan Patel

my birthday was today right before a national tragedy is that why i am the way i am or is it some other convoluted reason? i have been eating through books like money grows on trees thirty bucks a volume, but it must be worth the escape it brings how shameful seventeen now and still… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: bones., by Olivia Harris

A body putrefied is more preferable than a body airfried because butter and old bay on a body testified to be better when cooked live because a body fished from the chesapeake bay is said to be a body cursed if you humanely kill before throwing a body destined to float a vat of boiling… Continue reading TRAGIC Poem: “To Airfry a Crab”, by Thomas Page

In 2058, A murder investigation leads two police detectives down a dangerous path during the early days of the colonization of Mars. CAST LIST: Narrator: Hannah Ehman Daryl: Shawn Devlin Matt: Sean Ballantyne

Haunted by both a past transgression and the unsolved murder of his hero-cop father, a biracial Philadelphia detective with a reputation for losing his cool sets out on a quest to take down a criminal kingpin, but as the investigation unfolds, he realizes he might not be prepared for what he uncovers or the sacrifices… Continue reading CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Scene: STREET KNOWLEDGE, by Greg Sawicki, Brian Miller

In 2058, A murder investigation leads two police detectives down a dangerous path during the early days of the colonization of Mars. CAST LIST: Narrator: Hannah Ehman Daryl: Shawn Devlin Matt: Sean Ballantyne