Wherein a Metal Detectorist hears voices...

Escape by D. Schrute - Short, Drama - A grandfather has a plan to better his grandson's life.

Pay Dirt by Boomer - Short, Drama - A man discovered an unexploded bomb from World War II with his metal detector.  

Precious Mettle by An Arm & A Leg - Short, Drama, War - After a close encounter in a mine field, three soldiers just want to go home.

Neptune's Reef by Insert talentless idiot's name here... - Short, Comedy - A detectorist searching for gold encounters someone who does not approve of his nerdy fucking hobby.

Ol' Shit for Brains was right after all. by Shit for Brains - Short, Comedy - A not so clever guy stumbles across an opportunity to save the planet.

A Hollow Victory by Miner Quake - Short, Drama, Fantasy - When a metal detectorist uncovers the find of a lifetime, it seems his problems are over, until he suffers a major trauma and the voices in his head tell him otherwise. 9 pges

Come and Find Me by Sharon Needles - Short, Drama - While out metal detecting, a man picks up a different kind of signal that leads him through a game of hide and seek.

Something F#@king Strange by The Guide - Short, Comedy - After suffering a blow to the head, a Detectorist finds himself an unlikely ally leading him to believe not everything is as it seems.

Subconscience by Siggy Freud - Short, Family - After a teenager recovers from a bang to the head while out hunting for treasure with a metal detector, she discovers she can hear and influence her own subconscious... and the subconscious of other beings as well.  

Hard Metal by George Gurjeff - Short, Drama, Black Comedy - A security guard at work has an accident which causes a nagging voice to take over.

10 scripts! Not bad. I'll start reading.

I'm out watching The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which is the most Nick Cage movie ever! So, I'll probably start going through these tomorrow.

Dang, that's a first for me. Just finished all ten on the first day. Nice work everyone. Good luck to all that entered!

"It was all a dream" seems to be the most common theme of this challenge but I am enjoying the reads so far. Gonna have a break and finish the rest tomorrow.

Read all and really like where the writers took the challenge this time round. Some wacky premises and visuals and talks - quite out of the box thinking.
Nice job to all

OK, yeah… I didn’t enter this round but read and commented on them all. Quite the potpourri of scripts re: theme at hand, hat’s off to all who entered this tough challenge!

If I recall, you’re allowed to vote if you didn’t enter but commented on them all?

Not sure how that works to get a ballot…

Quoted from Gum OK, yeah… I didn’t enter this round but read and commented on them all. Quite the potpourri of scripts re: theme at hand, hat’s off to all who entered this tough challenge! If I recall, you’re allowed to vote if you didn’t enter but commented on them all? Not sure how that works to get a ballot…

Don or one of the other moderators will pick up on this and send one, I'm sure. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment! You always have interesting commentary.

Quoted from Gum OK, yeah… I didn’t enter this round but read and commented on them all. Quite the potpourri of scripts re: theme at hand, hat’s off to all who entered this tough challenge! If I recall, you’re allowed to vote if you didn’t enter but commented on them all? Not sure how that works to get a ballot…

Ballot sent, Rick!  

If anyone else read and reviewed PM me and I'll send you the voting link.

Quoted from khamanna Read all and really like where the writers took the challenge this time round. Some wacky premises and visuals and talks - quite out of the box thinking. Nice job to all

Check your PMs, Kham.
Sent you a Voting Ballot.

Quoted from LC Ballot sent, Rick!

Awesome, thanks, Libby!

Quoted from JEStaats Don or one of the other moderators will pick up on this and send one, I'm sure. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment! You always have interesting commentary.

Thanks, John… I sometimes, frequently, err… always shoot off on a tangent during my reviews, lol, but hopefully everyone caught some inspiration from my comment to keep on writing, even if subtle.

I wanted to get in on this but couldn’t find a story for the life of me, then, about two days ago remembered an Eagles Concert in my neck of the woods back in 1978.

It was the Hotel California Tour, and they played this outdoor concert at a horse racetrack right across from the perimeter highway where we lived. There was an attendance of about 27,000 people that showed, and about a thousand of those were people from the neighborhood that stormed the outer chain link fence when the Eagles went on, including all of us kids from the hood.

Anyway, next day all the kids in the neighborhood went back to scour the field, and there were a bunch of dudes already there with metal detectors mining the long (trampled) grass. Even without a detector I found like 5 bucks in change, 10 cigarette lighters, the odd keychain, etc. A mighty good haul for a 9-year-old kid just picking through the field that day… 5 bucks converted to intrinsic value back then was like 20 chocolate bars, 10 Slurpee’s, rotten teeth galore… ah, the good ol days.

Oh, and the back tower where they take the finish line video was 8mm film back then. When the film reels were spent, they would just throw a box full of them over the edge into the grass, and in those boxes were a big stack of nudie mags that we found in the hunt too, guess there’s nothing to do in those towers before post time except to get your freak on.  Thinking about all that now, I’m pretty sure there’s a bizarre script story buried in there somewhere, lol.