Featured Submissions.
A is for Banana*
An overly-confident monkey and a know-it-all zebra learn from each other’s mistakes, as they argue over the alphabet, counting, shapes, and everything else and kindergartener should know.
Admitting Jenny Pennygus
In a college application essay that exceeds the limit by 79,000 words, a world-weary high school senior explains her poor grades, low standardized test scores, and lack of extracurricular activities, are due to her accidental infiltration of an international crime syndicate, and demonstrates her real life - or death - application of the full AP curriculum.
Miss Fourth of July
When an octogenarian shut-in receives a paper cut from a radioactive calendar and develops the ability to time travel, she must learn to control her worst impulses before she destroys her own childhood.
The Turnbuckle Brigade
When four professional wrestlers are sent on a secret mission to rescue an ancient relic from the Axis powers, they must bury old grievances and blur the lines of reality and showmanship, to save the Allies’ war plan from sabotage - and certain defeat.
The Anteater’s Cookbook
When a colony of intrepid ants traps two odd-couple anteaters in an ant-free test kitchen, the perplexed anteaters must overcome an identity crisis, learn to cook, and embrace new culinary experiences, or go hungry holding out for the one thing that isn’t on the menu.
The Delicate War
When an despot jails his opponents and subjects them to mysterious experiments, a rebel girl must infiltrate the enemy’s inner circle to expose a diabolical conspiracy and save her father from prison, before they are both forced to join the nefarious cause they have sworn to destroy.
Chicken on the Run
A hapless chicken with big dreams and crippling gambling debts is forced by gangsters to steal eggs, but when he’s double-crossed and left holding the bag, he must re-cross the road to redeem himself and his family’s name.
The Hamsters of Habitat 9
When a hamster odd-couple escapes a pharmaceutical testing lab, they must learn to survive among the warring inhabitants of a contaminated nature reserve - and find an antidote before nature turns unnatural.
Kong Fuzi & Master Sun
When the Emperor’s daughter is murdered, royal advisors Confucius and Sun Tzu must overcome their bickering, and reconcile their opposing worldviews, to find the culprit and stop a civil war.
Carlos the Impossible
The world’s greatest matador and an impossible bull form an unlikely bond as they battle through a never-ending series of corridas, each living to fight another day…and another…and another…
There’s a Monster Under the Bed of the Monster Under My Bed
When a sleepless young boy discovers a monster under his bed, he finds the monster is terrified of a monster under its own bed, which leads to the discovery of a chain of ever smaller monsters lurking under ever-smaller beds.
Welcome to Calamityville
After aliens record all human activity in order to train their AI to help accelerate mankind’s self-inflicted decline, a misanthropic former Hollywood agent must decide between accepting trillions in alien gold for licensing rights to the content, or saving the human race from extinction.