2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on January 24, 2018
Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest, selected from over 1,400 submissions. Congratulations to these writers and thanks to all for submitting! Stay tuned for the February 14th semifinalists announcement here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
| 2027 | Elaine Gallant |
| 'Ware the Power | Jack Mulcahy |
| 15 W. Gibson | Aubree Lane |
| A Bell For Valor | Holly Barbo |
| A Bicycle for Madeline | Chad Broughman |
| A Cane Thriller | Albert Kerns |
| A Case of Sympathetic Arthritis | Ron Charach |
| A Christmas Wish | Charlie Wetzel |
| A Day in the City | Allen Shadow |
| A Good Marriage | Pauline Kaldas |
| A Kind of Curse | Morgan Watchorn |
| A Leaky Roof in London | Nina Joshi Ramsey |
| A Light Across the Void I: Rocket Summer | Travis Darkow |
| A Matter of Gel | Albert Kerns |
| A Perfect Microcosm | Wesley Harden |
| A Product of Romance | Robert McBrearty |
| A seat at The Window | Herb Jordan |
| A Single Person is Missing | Janine Mikosza |
| A Specter Called Meera | Mahendra Waghela |
| A Twentieth-Century Death | Joshua Ingle |
| Absalom | Elaine Slater |
| Action and Reaction | Joel Doty |
| Adam Frankenstein U.S. Marshal | Sheila English |
| Addison's Fallen | RC Woods |
| Adult Superstore | Scott Butterfield |
| Aftermath | Robert Horton |
| Akishita | Thomas O'Rourke |
| Albert's Lark (A Concerto for Black Holes) | Gary Bolick |
| Alejandra's Children | Douglas Iverson |
| All He Has | Laura Bullock |
| Amused | Jonah Jones |
| An Odd Missive | Leo Jenicek |
| Anastasia | Valerie Getsinger |
| And Then There Were Three: 67 Letters to Sasha | Julie Fox |
| Angel of Death | P James Norris |
| Antithesis | Megan Smithurst |
| Asunder | Nick Yeh |
| Attack From Within | Larry Powalisz |
| Awilda | Edward Medina |
| Bad Blood | Lisa Franek |
| Bad Sleep | Dennis Fallon |
| Bartholomew | Cathy Wilson |
| Bassy's Basilica | Jeffrey Arce |
| Beautiful Forms | Jace Lacob |
| Before I'm Forgotten | Leanna Wilson |
| Belle | Yasmeen Mitchell |
| Big Dog and Georgia Girl | Laura Cogdill |
| Billy Luck | DC Diamondopolous |
| Biography | Vinny Lopez |
| Black Orchids - A David Martin Adventure | Antoine Devine |
| Black Phantom | James Wolf |
| Blackest Crow | Karen Wallisky |
| Blue Abyss | Jason Lerner |
| Board & Lodging | William Oosthuizen |
| Bolívars | Suzanne Dottino |
| Bonestorming | Mary Tlucak |
| Boots on the Ground | Bear Kosik |
| Borders | D Sohi |
| Breaking the Square | Jeff Shearer |
| Brothers of Fey | Sabrina Sung |
| Bubble | John Nielsen |
| Butterscotch | David Armstrong |
| C@k3 by the 0c3@n | Sydney Freedberg |
| Captain Death | Susan Lowell |
| Casanova | Edward Medina |
| Castles of Steel | Nick Wray |
| Charlotte Rose: Giving Up the Ghost | Christi Harris |
| Chef | Nina Smith |
| Children of God | Costi Gurgu |
| Church of the Homeless | Eldon Kellogg |
| Close Your Ears, Mother Goose | Leslie Lewinter-Suskind |
| Compton's Cafeteria | William Polf |
| Conduit Road | Brian Howlett |
| Cool Gray City | Paula Zaby |
| Corrections | Susan Kaye Quinn |
| Creature from the Public Domain | Eileen Mitchell |
| Creatures | Michael Whisenant |
| Crepuscular | Bret McCormick |
| Crescent Moon | Joseph Stowitschek |
| Crimestoppers | Joseph Mujwit |
| Crossing Over | Steven Cahill |
| Curse of the Ottawa | Frank Daley |
| Dead Edit Redo | Elaine Stirling |
| Dead Soul | Max Diksztejn |
| Dear, Never Pickup Hitchhikers | Mal King |
| Death Be Damned | MK Bagwell |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Mathieu Cailler |
| Deja Vu | Peter Cawdron |
| Descent | Vincent Stoia |
| Desert's Dwellers | Monica Kuhlmann |
| Desolate Sea | SJ Bryson |
| Desperado | Sean Fleming |
| Diorama | Joe Vallese |
| Dirty Jesus | Michael Dundrea |
| Discovery | Katherine Cox |
| Distressed Damsel | Susan Scarlett Montgomery |
| Don Emilio | Allison Douglas-Tourner |
| Don't Turn Around | Samuel Frandino |
| Drill | Cady Vishniac |
| E113N | Jeremy Engelbrecht |
| Early Sunday Morning | Mary Smith |
| Earth, Water, and Fire | Martin Eisenberg |
| Earthman Asylum | Keith Bandelin |
| Echo | Cameron Frank |
| Eleven Days | Michael Crump |
| Elizabethan Arms | Robert Baldwin |
| Enter the Apocalypse: When Time Stands Still | Sara Noë |
| Etta Mae's Little Theory | Lori White |
| Everyone's On the Take | Leonard Dawson |
| Exiles | Barbara de la Cuesta |
| Fairy City | Kerry Pack |
| Fall to Grace | Mark Wooden |
| Family Matters | Sonya Watson |
| Farewell Old Neighborhood | Gerald Shovlin |
| Feelin' All Right | Edward Fasano |
| Fembryo | John Wright |
| Fig Tree | D. Femme |
| Fight of his life | Jennifer Kent |
| Finding Phyllis | Jack Halliday |
| First Boats | William Cullen |
| First Wife | Linda Shippey |
| Floored | Mark Lingane |
| For Sale/Blood Room | Brad Conover |
| French for Weakling | David Armstrong |
| Friendly Varmint | MK Bagwell |
| From Up on a Pedestal | Catherine Hotaling-Donnelly |
| Frosthammer | Bryan Todd |
| Ghost Writer | Gary Braver |
| Ghosts of Whiting | Franklin Hunting |
| Gifted (Chronicles of the Imagination Series) | Annette Zoheret, D.Z. Adams |
| Girl at the End of the World | JP Sebastian |
| Girls Girls Girls | Cady Vishniac |
| Gladiolus | Bridget Lopatinsky |
| Globaphobia (Fear of Balloons) | Jennifer Egan |
| Glouston | Phillip Jones |
| Go Home | Sohrab Homi Fracis |
| God-Machine | Joshua Bartolome |
| Golem | Emi Cohen |
| Guy Fawkes Night | Dianne Bubb |
| Haight | David Nelson |
| Hanger | Kelli McNeil |
| Happy Birthday to Me | Neina Gordon |
| Headlines | Omri Bezalel |
| Heaven, Hell and the Narrow Space Between | Kyle Born |
| Heisenberg | Will Pei |
| Helena's Hope | Erik Wecks |
| Her Highland Laird | Debbie Mumford |
| Herald of Chernobog | D.C. Lozar |
| Highway 111 | Mathieu Cailler |
| Holiday in Provence | Robert Daseler |
| Hollywood | Zachary Ferrara |
| Home for the Holidays | Randee Dawn Kestenbaum |
| Honey and Cloves | Terrence Bennett |
| Honeymooner | Cally Fiedorek |
| Hot Cockles | Rachel O'Hara |
| I Didn't Send My Regrets | Tia Levings |
| I Don't Cry | Deborah Vines |
| I Don't Cry Easy | Ava Van Pelt |
| I Wanted Ten | Alle C. Hall |
| I'm Having a Band With a Married Man | Mary Birdsong |
| In My Mother's Voice | Martha Boose |
| In the Matter of Inca Ingalls | Craig Chapman |
| Introducing The Lame Detective | Michael McLoon |
| Island 6-17 | Joan Scharf |
| It Happened In Wrigley | Kevin Murray |
| It's How I'm Wired: The Confessions of a Nervous Child | Robert Weinberger |
| It's Personal | Kat Corbett |
| Ivory Miniature | Robert Frink |
| Jack Werrett The Flood Man | Rebecca Lloyd |
| Jesus Face | John Hartman |
| Jim Lyons and the Shotgun | Carolyn Plath |
| Jus in Bello | Sean Brower |
| Just Heaven | Sean McElhiney |
| Just the Janitor | Ramona Scarborough |
| Kitsune | Josh Bartolome |
| Kittygirl Vs. The Fiendish Brain Freezer! | Dave M. Strom |
| Kizmet | Mathieu Cailler |
| Knowledge 1975 | Margaret Ann Porter |
| La Sirène | Lawrence King |
| Late Night Jitters | Sharon Previti |
| Lefty | John Doble |
| Legend of Lady Su | B. Elliott Mason |
| Lenore | Dwig Dixon |
| Leviathan_Tanpepper | Saul Tanpepper |
| Life Like a Fair | Sandra Cropsey |
| Like the Angels You Told Me About? | Darlene Cah |
| Line in the Sand | Mathieu Cailler |
| Litmus | Lynn Sadler |
| Lizard's Kiss | Jason Gelt |
| Look Both Ways | Elizabeth Oness |
| Love | Deryn Warren |
| Love is Louder | Susan Hahn |
| Loveoid | JL Morin |
| Lucky Man | Bill Mesce |
| Machines for Singing | Nick Wray |
| Maple | Su Ching Teh |
| Marble Birds | Timothy Hendricks |
| Marching Towards Golgotha | Jordan Hill |
| McQueen for a Day | Gina Cresse |
| Me and Bobby Snow | Carla Deterding |
| Memories | Valerie Drego |
| Mesquite and Hard Rain | Matthew Wanniski |
| Minuteman Merlin | Frederick Crook |
| Mirror Mirror | Peter Cawdron |
| Missives from the Green Campaign | David Armstrong |
| Mom | Samuel Frandino |
| Mop Jockey | Michael Ayoob |
| Mother's Day | Mark Stevens |
| Mulligan Stew | Charles Scott |
| Murder at the Playhouse | Harold Emanuel |
| Muscled Clean Out the Dirt | Ron Austin |
| Music City Two Step | James Moore |
| My Happy Years | Jann Else, Evlampia Demianeuk |
| My Lady Bright | Stephen Evans |
| Nachman's Recipe | Yvonne Fein |
| Nameless, Faceless | Shawn Scuefield |
| New York Giants | John W. Ashbrook |
| Night of the Rat | Jason Gelt |
| No Bark, All Bite | Timothy Hobbs |
| Nobody Will Ever Love You | Anthony Howcroft |
| Nuevo Laredo | Edward Varga |
| Oceans and Islands | Jeannette Carlisle |
| Offsides: The College Football Revolution | Ron Turner |
| On the Grave of Eddie Doolin | John Harney |
| On Top of the World | Katherine Rooks |
| One of Those Faces | William Polf |
| One Star | Timothy O'Leary |
| One Winter's Day in June | Stephen Willis |
| Only Love Can Break Your Heart | Fred Bubbers |
| Oregon Grinder | Harold Bernard |
| Our Red Fish | Chris Amato |
| Out Like a Lion | Jason Gelt |
| Out of the Box | Alison Juste |
| Pamela Jenkins | Michael Kramer |
| Pandora's Box | Nancy Christie |
| Panic Terror | Zoe Copeman |
| Papier mache monster | Robin Bower |
| Parabnormal Sisters | DC Sayre |
| Park-and-Shop Karma | Sheila Martin |
| Petey Immigrates North, Then Moves West | Larry Menlove |
| Phoenix Squadron: The Last of the Few | PJ Stephenson |
| Planet of Stones | David Beshears |
| Polish Day, Kennywood Park, June 6, 1969 | Don Narkevic |
| Pont de la Mouri | David Keffer |
| Powers Squared | David Hankins |
| Prism | John Gregory Hancock |
| Provisions | Kira Lerner |
| Psycho Babbles | Alison Reeger Cook |
| Questions I Don't Ask Bubby | Cady Vishniac |
| Quick Study | Vance Cariaga |
| Rain of Terror | Valentina Reiken |
| Reap | Anne Sweazy-Kulju |
| Redemption | Sara Noë |
| Reflections | Barry Brennessel |
| Religion | Ellen Birkett Morris |
| Resurrection Of A Murder | Tom Di Roma |
| Revenge of the Rabid, Killer Were-Possum | Mark Keigley |
| Robin | Robert Kornhiser |
| Rope | Richard Willett |
| Rough Blocks | Andy Bennett |
| Seaspan | Sharon Powers |
| Secrets | Deborah Greenberg |
| Seeds | Daniel Davis-Williams |
| Seeking Forgiveness | LaKesa Cox |
| Sex & Death | Thomas Thonson |
| Shining Like Pink Stars | Doug Peake |
| Shisha | Marina Hatsopoulos |
| Shoot and Burn | Elisabeth Annacone |
| Conch Without A Shell | Lee Rohe |
| Sideways Down the Sky | Barry Brennessel |
| Silent Invaders | Shree |
| Slapstick Blues | DC Diamondopolous |
| Slingin' | William Craig Pugh |
| Snapshots in Time | Jenna Lapointe |
| Solipschism | Robert G Ferrell |
| Son, Brother, Patriot | Mark Sondrini |
| Sort Story Contest | Dominique Bretin |
| Speaking to the Dead | Amy Deterding |
| Special Delivery | Jennifer Fromke |
| Special Heroes - Legend of the Super Eye Fly | B. Elliott Mason |
| Spirit Dog | Jack Dann |
| Stalking Mattice Bowman | Amanda Lee |
| Stalled Symphony | Liesl Wilke |
| Starfish - The Arbitrary Ocean | Elizabeth Cooke |
| Step Up, Peter | Thom Schwarz |
| Sunday in March | Samsun Knight |
| Supply Run | Josh Schwartz |
| Suspension | Miriam Akhavan-Tafti |
| Suxy and Dave | Bruce Graham |
| Syringe-Fed Ferrets | Samuel Martin |
| Talent Show | Jenny Ketrow |
| Tattoo | James Carr |
| Tea for Two | Bev Bachmann |
| Teacher's Pets | Linda Rumney |
| Terminus | Judith Dancoff |
| Testament | Mark Havlik |
| Thanksgiving | Jennifer S. Deayton |
| The Angel of Munitions | Roy Smythe |
| The Apartment | Anthony Strong |
| The Apple Fest Baking Queen of Marion County | Heather Weisberger |
| The Ark | Jenna Willett |
| The Awful Daring | Ian Blake Newhem |
| The Biltmore Hotel | Rodney Grantham |
| The Birches | Amy Linner |
| The Black El Camino | Minter Krotzer |
| The Black Pearl Necklace | Ken Jones |
| The Bone Yard | Fredrica Greene |
| The Burning Man | Jack Halliday |
| The Caravan | David Beshears |
| The Chat | Brian d'Eon |
| The Cheek | Kimberlee Koehn |
| The City Brigade | Tim Murphy |
| The Corpse of Madeline Hill | Edward Medina |
| The Crème de la Crème | Chris Amato |
| The Cube | Allison Ong |
| The D-Day Puzzle | Carole Harrington |
| The Daemon Wedding | Myron Pulier |
| The Darkness | Justine Avery |
| The Desert Before Jerusalem | John Mizelle |
| The Devil and Charlie Barrow | Ronald Herron |
| The Downed | Mi West |
| The Dragon's Tale | Gregg Chamberlain |
| The Dybbuk | Cady Vishniac |
| The EF76 Strain | Howard Dunkley |
| The Escape | Roshan Kalghatgi |
| The Ever Increasing Likelihood of Always | Martin Kalanda |
| The Faith of Power | Lee Patton |
| The Family Unit | Laurence Klavan |
| The Fixer | Clinton Cleveland |
| The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future | Lyn Hawks |
| The Followers of Bahá U’lláh | Charles Leipart |
| The Former Things | Drew MacDonald |
| The Fox | Mark Brandi |
| The Game | Fabian Acker |
| The Gifts We Didn't Receive | Kenneth Dalrymple |
| The Girl Who Drowned a Goldfish | Don Narkevic |
| The Girl Who Fished with a Worm | Harry Groome |
| The Girl with the Autumn Hair | Teodora Gaydarova |
| The Glass | Raymond (R.A.) Chatelin |
| The Godfarmer | yacine kouhen |
| The Golden Arowana | Will Pei |
| The Good Food | Michael Ezell |
| The History of Small West Texas Towns | Brent Smith |
| The House on Shiloh Street | Adam Meyer |
| The Kill Table | Tracy DeBrincat |
| The Kite Maker | Brenda Peynado |
| The Knotted Gun | Mary Vettel |
| The Last Hurrah | Mark Stevens |
| The Last Wheel of Cheese | Igor Reznitsky |
| The Legend of Frank Duggan | Joseph Harrington |
| The Lightning Bug Wars | Gary Shockley |
| The Loan | Lesley Heiser |
| The Lost Lives App | Chet Martin |
| The Madichon | Ryan McMenamie |
| The Magic Circle | Terence Waeland |
| The Man in the Corner | ZJ Czupor |
| The Man with a House on His Back | Elaine Dodge |
| The Master Race | Alexander Blake |
| The Mother Earth Insurgency | Joseph Follansbee |
| The Mushroom Hunter | Lynne Williams |
| The Mysterious Murder of Marvin King | RC Jerome |
| The Offer | Aidan Traynor |
| The Painter | Lara Tupper |
| The Purification | Timothy OLeary |
| The Quantum War | Nori Nettleton |
| The Quest | Shehryar Khawar |
| The Queue | L Michael Hager |
| The Rabbi's Story | Joe Dowling |
| The Rainbow Collector | Valerie Collins |
| The Rats | Amanda Williams, Paislee House |
| The Resurrection Man | Shawn Scuefield |
| The Rose and the Whip | Jeanie Hodges |
| The Ruby | Molly Adams |
| The Russian & Aunt Sophia | Rita Moreau |
| The Russian Officeer | Elaine Slater |
| The Salehs | Farah Ahamed |
| The Sewer, The Son and The Sami | Kaz Cai |
| The Shadow in the Wid | Lazaros Zigomanis |
| The Shadow King | D.C. Lozar |
| The Shiver Test | Ruth Knafo Setton |
| The Silver Dollar | Robert Boeder |
| The Silver Lair | Albert Kerns |
| The Sixth Man | Robert Lamb |
| The Square of Stars | Laurence Klavan |
| The Stan; Father, Son, Findin Bombs | Dan Talley |
| The Star Next Door | David Hoenig |
| The Sylph's Tale or Ayekah the Damned | Marta Weeks |
| The Tale of Brigita and Klement | Myron Pulier |
| The Thirty Third | Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus |
| The Three Books of Shama | Benjamin Kwakye |
| The Tour Guide | Yoav Katz |
| The Traveling Couch | Jaclyn Salemme |
| The Truth about the Little Mermaid | Makiko Hirata |
| The Ultimate Bet | Frank Victoria |
| The Violin | paul garrety |
| The Water Singers | Iris Chinook |
| The Ways We Get By | Joe Dornich |
| The Winding Staircase | David Keffer |
| The Wrath | Matt G. Perry |
| They Drove on Streets Paved with Kindness. | John Bauer |
| This Is Not My Life | Susan Goldstein |
| Those Who Walk The Earth: The Dog Who Ate The World | Mary Stevens |
| Time for Obsession | Stephen Willis |
| Tommy Fitz' West Side Journal | Tom Flynn |
| Tracking the Lions | Marina Hatsopoulos |
| Treasure on Boxaurie Mountain | Margaret Cook |
| Trip Wires | Tom Glenn |
| Trojan | Elliot Seidel |
| Trouble | Townsend Walkr |
| Twilight Interlude | Carl Rauscher |
| Two Scorpions | Lexia Snowe |
| Untangled Lines | Chase McFadden |
| Up the River | Wayne Page |
| Valor | Lorna Hartman |
| Venerable | Albert Kerns |
| Veritas | Kylie Calwell |
| Walking with You, Racine | Jeanne Watson |
| Watcher | Gareth Mitton |
| Waves | Christina Chiu |
| Wearing a Dead Man's Bones | Bill DeArmond |
| Welcome to Work World! | Nancy Nelson |
| What If? | Martin Eisenberg |
| When Rudolph Was Kidnapped | Christine DeSmet |
| Where The Lost Things Live | Steven Kendall |
| Where to Send the Dogs | Penn Javdan |
| Whisper In My Ear, Maxine | Glenda Ganis |
| Wind Rider: A Legend Lost | Michael Creed |
| Winning and Losing...Mostly Losing | Larry Caringer |
| Winterworld | Lyndsie Manusos |
| With Baby Wynona | Cady Vishniac |
| Wolf Note | Libby Jacobs |
| Women Bathing | Judith Dancoff |
| World in Progress | Lori White |
| Yackety-Yak (Don't Talk Back) | Chris Vincent |
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