Ideas, Shorts, Scripts & Treatments
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Where the Minutes Melt
Kai noticed the hat before she noticed anything else. Its shadow rested across the stone as if it had arrived earlier than the morning, waiting for the light to catch up. She stood still, watching as the sunlight slowly filled…
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Drifting North
Watch Listen and read along – Drifting North Far from the town of Nod but not a long way away, in a place where the roads slowly dissolve into quiet earth and the noise of the world fades into something…
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For All of us – Artimus II
The art of storytelling, structure, a good yarn, and the human touch. There is something funny about the Moon. It sits there with complete confidence, as if it has never once had to explain itself to anyone. Apollo went there…
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The Quiet Road of Return
Warm lantern light, and the slow beauty of coming home at the end of the day. The sun had already dipped behind the stone houses when Mariam heard them coming. A soft rustle first, then the faint pad-pad of hooves…
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A Place where time is still
In the town where time sits down, afternoons stretched like warm honey across the stone lanes. It was late summer, that hazy cusp where the sun hung low and heavy, catching dust in silver cones that drifted like secrets. The…
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A White Season
A White Season Returns I did not intend to make anything that day. Not a story, not a song, not even a fragment worth keeping. But the snow had already begun its slow erasure of the world outside, and there…
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One Week
Keaton said, “Who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long…
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True Bromance | トゥルー・ブロマンス
True Bromance Elon didn’t argue. He didn’t tweet. He just walked to his rocket. He climbed into the Falcon Heavy, face still, eyes like stone. At Cape Canaveral, Trump stood alone, hands in his coat pockets, watching. He said nothing.…
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Black Mirror Episode Concept: “Recursive”
© 2025 Barry Ashworth Genre: Sci-fi ©WGA Registration Number: 1587324 Premise:In a near-future world, a breakthrough in autonomous AI leads to the creation of an art-producing system that can self-update, evolve, and “teach itself” new techniques. At first, it’s hailed as…
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Specter in the Circuit
Screen Treatment © 2025 Barry Ashworth Genre:Sci-fi Comedy/Parody Tone:Witty, meta, and playful, poking fun at cyberpunk tropes while exploring philosophical questions about identity and technology. Logline:In a hyper-digital future, a cybernetically enhanced police squad must track down a rogue, self-aware…
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Burn Circuit
Feature Film Treatment © Kathleen Margart Cameron, All Rights Reserved 2025 BURN CIRCUIT Ride the edge, or be consumed by it ACT I: Entry & Resistance Selene Skeldon, 49-year-old tarot reader and single mother, works a dead-end night shift in…
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Ratrace … View animated Short
The Cheese Stands Alone: A Tale of Mid-Squeak-isential Crisis ミドルライフ・スウィーク-イゼンシャル・クライシス：チーズはひとりぼっち In a nondescript corner of everyones somewhere, Masaru the salarymouse slid into his tiny grey suit at dawn, adjusted his paw-sized tie, and squeezed through the mouse-only exit beside the…
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Kuro Tsuki – Black Moon
Film Treatment © Barry Ashworth, All Rights Reserved 2016 ACT ONE: THE FALL Opening SceneSnow-whipped winds sweep the desolate highlands of Hokkaidori, a land where legends and curses intertwine. RYŪ, a battle-worn warrior with eyes like cold steel, rides hard through…