Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they...

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a...

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an...

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a...

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog,...

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends...

Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave...

Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years...

When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since...

An aged former sailor, ill and confined in his bed, maintains his firm grip on his house and his son, who is having an affair with the widowed next...

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters...

Twenty seasonal stories from Thomas and his friends Duncan, Gordon, Henry, Percy, Toby and Rusty: 'Rusty to the Rescue', It's Great to Be an Engine',...

Moscow writer ordered a story for the collection. At this time, his wife is going on a business trip to St. Petersburg. Writing imagination awakens...

Climb aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge as Captain Jack Sparrow is captured by a crew of zombies in the latest CGI Animated adventure from Lego Pirates...

This story is divided in three chapters. 1) "The Visitor": The drifter writer Tran Thanh Loc arrives in an old house and is lodged by the gorgeous...

Daughter Lea persuades Véronique to attend her father's funeral in the south of France. It soon turns out that the family is completely at...

A group of young, working children are terrorized and robbed by their stepfather.

In a world which resembles a computer game from bygone times, an unloved boy embarks upon a search for answers to the essential questions: How does...