John is a guy who has always played by the rules. June is a girl who lives like there's no tomorrow. Their meeting is an explosion that turns the whole world upside down. Defying time and the law, they embark on a dizzying adventure that will fill their lives with color, magic, and unbridled love.
A collection of amazing stories published in the pages of the latest issue of an American weekly magazine that was published in a fictional French city in the mid-twentieth century.
The action develops in a European village of the XIX century. The main character - a young man Victor - is dragged by the forces of darkness to the underworld and married there to the mysterious Corpse Bride, while his real bride Victoria waits for her groom in the world of the living.Despite the fact that living in the Kingdom of the Dead turns out to be much more interesting than his usual Victorian way of life, Victor realizes that he will not trade his one and only love for anything in any of the alternative worlds....
Max Fisher is a tenth grader at the prestigious Rushmore Academy. He is the editor of the school newspaper, captain of all sorts of teams, president of countless school clubs, and a hopeless bad boy. Max is put on probation, during which he comes up with nothing better than to fall in love with a young teacher! In addition, the hapless underachiever has an influential and dangerous rival....
After the death of his father and a breakup with his girlfriend, Sam is sucked into an abyss of even greater misery as the perverted girl he begins dating gradually saps all the life force out of him....
After suffering several defeats in a row, Jim Braddock, a promising heavyweight boxer, is forced to quit the sport. During the Great Depression, Braddock takes any job to support his wife May and children. But he still hopes to get back in the ring. And one day he gets that chance. At the last minute, Jim replaces another boxer and goes into a fight with a challenger for the world title ...
Thirty-five-year-old Carla Bem is an ordinary secretary in a real estate office. Her whole life consists of daily routine work and loneliness at home. In addition, Carla is very hard of hearing. She wears a hearing aid and can read lips. Therefore, she gladly accepts the offer to be assisted by a trainee, 25-year-old Paul, who has recently been released from prison.
Los Angeles, 1948. Jake is hired by his namesake land dealer Jake Berman. Berman is convinced that his wife is cheating on him and asks Gittes to dig up every possible detail. Gittes, in turn, not only finds out all the details, but also offers Berman to "catch" his wife red-handed, right during an intimate rendezvous. The two Jakes set up an ambush for the unfaithful spouse. At the most crucial moment Berman, instead of making his wife a scene of jealousy, kills her lover. And all this could have been written off as a state of passion, if the murdered man had not turned out to be Berman's business partner. After the death of his business partner, Jake Berman is left with all the money. Now Gittes has to find out whether what happened was an accident or a cold-blooded planned murder....
Megan is a "one hundred percent" American girl. She is beautiful, popular, has an excellent grade, is the head of the cheerleading squad of the school soccer team, and is dating its captain. But she doesn't like to kiss him, preferring to spend time with her friends, and there are no pictures of guys in her photo albums - only girls. Based on this irrefutable evidence, her parents and family friends conclude that Megan has a non-traditional sexual orientation and send her to a specialized youth camp called "The Right Way" for re-education. Megan does not consider herself a lesbian and sincerely wants to get on the path of correction. But will she be able to resist her feelings for the beautiful Graham?
