The Hostage

Francis is a short story written by american novelist Dave Eggers. This is the story of a young boy growing up in the suburbs of chicago. He spent his vacations in Quetico Provincial Park, up on the border of Minnesota and Canada. But he won't be going back any day soon, not after what happened to a girl called Francis Brandywine.

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A girl playing children's games with a new group of friends soon realizes nothing is wholesome about what they are doing.

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Two rookies have one last chance to prove themselves to the "Suits" gang. All they have to do is ditch a body in enemy territory without being caught. If the rival "Scars" don't kill them, their boss sure will.

A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.

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Watch as everyday people go from their safe, simple lives into a realm of the supernatural.

On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Adam has began to suspect something unusual about the world around him; it's all a simulation. As his sister Alice attempts to help him through his episode of poor mental health, can Adam separate paranoid delusions from reality or is there more at work than he realises.

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

At the library, Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment, while the person is out. A woman asks Sung-mo to run away with the phone.

On an ordinary day, Yoon-jin(26) finds Ji-hoon(14) crouching down on a stair in the hallway in front of her house.

Two desperate pioneer women escape together across the midwestern desert in 1848.

A leather-clad biker and a pink-haired escort meet on the streets of downtown Guadalajara.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

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