Below you will find a synopsis of my finished screenplays. If you would like to read sample pages of each script, you can click on the underlined title below the synopsis.

Please be aware that, do to limitations in HTML (or more likely my ignorance), the sample pages are not in exact screenplay format. The dialogue lines are centered on the page.

All scripts are © and WGA registered.





THEY SAY DREAMS CAN'T HURT YOU. THEY'RE DEAD WRONG!

KNIGHT VISIONS

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story




The universe shifts from day to night in an instant ... and ALI AUBRY finds herself staring at a strange and brilliant light that drops out of the night sky. Like a blazing sun it comes to engulf her, to destroy her. Then the universe shifts once again from night to day in an instant.

Thus begins Ali's pursuit for answers to the visions that haunt her. As each vision materializes, she comes closer to the truth. With the help of KEITH KNIGHT -- who's missing sister is the link to the visions -- the two are plunged into a nightmare of conspiracy, cover-ups and betrayal when they come face-to-face with a weapon that changes the very fabric of space and time itself.

Sample pages from Knight Visions

*Placed 32nd out of 500 in a previous Writer's Digest Scriptwriting Contest



GET A JOB . . . GET AHEAD . . . GET IN TROUBLE!

Red Letter Day

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story





Wanted: Receptionist, no typing, must have red hair, red car and speak French.

Able to speak French, red-haired KAY O'BANNON answers the "dream" ad, only to be confronted by bumbling BORIS, who gives her a red envelope and tells her to deliver it to Papa Charlie by noon.

Unbeknownst to Kay and friend Jackie (who owns a red car), the two are being followed by two FBI agents: SAM TRAMLER and BEN JOHNS. At first the two agents think the pair are couriers.

But after realizing their mistake, Sam asks Kay to help nab Parkov. It turns into a mad-cap race to transform Kay into NITASHA before Parkov expects delivery of the secret documents ... in three hours.

Sample pages from Red Letter Day





A DARK SECRET + A DARK PAST = A DARKER FUTURE

SpHel Bound

An Original Screenplay By Shannon L. Story




Carrying a cargo of illegal spice, MAILAND THORRITE finds herself caught in the middle of a chase to capture three renegade spaceships. Hauled aboard the Dreadnought, she comes face-to-face with Commander DRAKE KASSADDA--a man she once loved--but now hates.

Once released, Mai meets, NORLEY, a beguiling young boy with a troubled history. As the two become friends and partners, Drake discovers the boy's hidden past. Rushing to save Mai from Norley's terrible secret, he knows that Mai must trust him. But to trust him is to trust the man who killed her beloved brother HALARRAN.

When Mai and Drake finally meet, it leads to a climatic showdown where they must confront an ultimate betrayal, and make a final decision that could effect their lives ... and a planet as well.

Sample pages from SpHel Bound



A WHOLE LOTTO MONEY . . . A WHOLE LOTTO TROUBLE!

THAT'S THE TICKET!

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story




Life has been hard for DONNY and BECKY SHAFFER. With two minimum-wage jobs, they struggle to take care of their three kids: GEORGIE, DEBBIE and JENNY . . . not to mention the mutt named MOTELY. So winning the Texas State Lottery seems like a dream come true.

But winning big turns into a "lotto" headaches when neighbors and relatives come asking for handouts ... reporters circle the house like buzzards around a dead armadillo ... there's a mad-cap race with a truck load of pigs ... Debbie gets the chicken pox ... the car gets a flat tire and then there's that wild ride in a eighteen-wheeler.

So ... what else could go wrong? How about inept kidnappers who snatch Georgie and Motley in a bid for the millions.

Sample pages from: That's the Ticket!




The following are teleplays that I have written. I have listed them here, but they are not available for review. I add them to show my versatility in various genre's.

A couple of the scripts, "Mind Games" and "Child's Play" I plan to turn into screenplays with different characters, locations and titles. I just hate to waste a good plots . . . and these were my favorite.

A NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE (TWILIGHT ZONE)

BUT FOR THE GRACE (STAR TREK:TNG)

CHILD'S PLAY (MIAMI VICE)

JUDGEMENTS (STAR TREK:TNG)

MIND GAMES (MIAMI VICE)

TIME ENOUGH FOR BUD (TWILIGHT ZONE)





I have a number of scripts in various stages of completion: from a techno-thriller called "Work Force," a science fiction adventure called, "The Lights Of Marfa." to a disaster movie called, "FireLine."

The three scripts below, I plan to have ready by the end of the year, into the early part of next year, "God willin' and the computer don't crash ... again."







AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE LIFE AIN'T NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES

LLEGEND, OF OLD EARTH

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story




Life has been hard for Captain ALEXANDER LLEGEND: The death camp escape ... the trial ... the acquittal ... the continuous rumors of his betrayal. And now the seething hatred from his first officer, Commander KURNON, who seeks a terrible revenge for her father's death.

But as unseen forces pull Kurnon and Llegend into a web of conspiracy, life gets even harder when NARDAAK, (the death camp commander), arrives in a blaze of laser fire, and destroys an abandoned spaceship that holds a deadly secret.

Now Llegend must race to find the answers to Nardaak's actions before time runs out! But finding those answers leads him to an ultimate betrayal that could destroy him ... and all mankind.

Excerpt from Llegend, of Old Earth





WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MODERN SCIENCE MEETS OLD WORLD BELIEFS? IT CAN BE MURDER.

MIRACLEWORK

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story




For Major Tyler Tealman, M.D, the world of modern medicine is black and white ... until he meets a Navajo girl with mystical powers, who shows him that there is much more to life than his "reality."

Unable to accept Jenny's "reality," and his belief systems destroyed, he withdraws from the world of medicine into a world of alcohol and denial.

A year later, when others realize the young girl's powers, he must save her from a plot that will destroy her . . . but first he must save himself.

Excerpt from MiracleWork





AT TWELVES YEARS OLD, BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS HARD ... BUT BELIEVING IN YOUR FATHER IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.

WISHING WELL

An Original Screenplay by Shannon L. Story




For over a year, twelve year old, TODD HANDSON has been at odds with his father. It doesn't help that Todd thinks his dad's occupation as a children's storybook author, is gross. Instead of writing gory stuff like monsters and aliens, his father writes about lands were animals talk and magic is the norm.

When JASON HANDSON insists that they move from L.A., to a hick town in Texas, it becomes a war between father and son.

With the family almost in shambles, it's Todd's little sister, Mandy who tries to bring the family back together . . . by running away, into the woods, to find a magic bird that holds the key to Todd's future and Jason's past.

Excerpt from Wishing Well






For more information on these or other scripts in the works, please contact me at the following:

StoryLine Ink

For other samples of my fiction, non-fiction and poetry please go to my WRITING SAMPLES site.

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