Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve, and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent-The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and Mademoiselle-are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as Brokeback Mountain, Good Will Hunting, and Minority Report.
One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood, an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume, selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders, picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood, refresh yourself with these exciting short stories, and the possibilities they hold.

Perry Glasser / An Age of Marvels and Wonders
E. E. King / Dirk Snigby's Guide to the Afterlife
Perry Glasser / Mexico
Therese Mageau / The Adam Collection
Barry Simiana / Gone to Mum's
Don Wallace / The Injunction
Michael Guerra / My Stunt Wife
Gerald O. Ryan / A.K.A.
Ed Jesby / The Door Beast Nine Vee Bee
Nancy Davidson / Some Pig
Brian Richmond / The Good Kid
John Minichillo / Bind Man in the Halls of Justice
Janet Neipris / The Piano
Russell Bittner / Waltzing Matilda
J. Paul Cooper / The Equation