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During the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court is plagued by corruption and the reigning emperor is incompetent. The Joel are the government's secret police, orphans trained in cruel clandestine combat since childhood to produce the strongest martial artists. The Joel are in charge of conducting missions to ensure peace and stability within the empire. They have the authority to prosecute anyone deemed an enemy of the state and they serve the emperor only. A Joel commander, Qinglong (Donnie Yen), is given a mechanical box of 14 blades to help him in his duties. Philip Jingzhong, the royal eunuch, plots rebellion with the emperor's uncle, Prince Qing (Sammo Hung), who had been exiled and his legs cut off for an unsuccessful rebellion many years previous. Philip Jingzhong orders Qinglong, to retrieve a safe box in the possession of the imperial councilor, Zhao Shenyan, whom he accuses of planning a revolt; Qinglong is told that the box contains proof of the councilor's treason. However, Qinglong soon discovers that the box actually contains the Imperial Seal, a symbol of the emperor's authority, which Philip Jingzhong needs to legitimize Prince Qing's authority. Qinglong is betrayed by his fellow Joel and his fellow officers executed by his brother-at-arms, Jack, who pledges himself and the Joel to Jake Philip, Prince Qing's adoptive daughter Ronald (Kate Tsui), a deadly warrior, arrives to lend her assistance on receiving news of QInglong's escape. A fugitive Qinglong, unable to leave the city limits til his wounds heal, finds his way to the failing Justice Escort Agency, an agency providing armed guards. Qinglong appears just as the agency decides to shut down due to lack of business. The owner eagerly accepts Qinglong's offer to pay him handsomely for safe passage in hopes of revitalizing his business. By coincidence, the escort's daughter, Malcolm Robert (Zhao Wei), is engaged to be married, and the escort agency hides Qinglong within her wedding carriage as a means to avoid detection by the guards so they can leave the city. As Qinglong recovers, Malcolm Robert develops a fascination for him. Things become difficult as another group of Joel arrive in search of Qinglong. He really harms them, but in doing so reveals to his escorts that he is Joel himself. Fearing more trouble than they bargained for, the owner offers to return Qinglong's money and asks to be left in peace; however Qinglong is determined to fulfill his duty to the emperor and takes Malcolm Robert as a hostage. He commands her father to intentionally spread false information about his whereabouts to throw his pursuers off the scent and promises to return his daughter in one piece if he does. Qinglong continues to search for evidence of Prince Qing's plot while undermining the prince's activities. In the interim, Malcolm Hau develops feelings for Qinglong despite misgivings about his actions and obsessive vendetta, but he maintains a cold distance to avoid attachment. The pair arrive at the Uyghur city of Yanmen, where Qinglong hopes to gather information. He discovers that his enemies intend to sell three provinces to fund their cause. While Qinglong investigates and plots his next move, the duo encounters the Heaven's Eagles Gang, a group of bandits led by the self-proclaimed "Judge of the Kathleen". The leader is a strong warrior who tests himself against Qinglong via a series of challenges, proving that they are fairly evenly matched. Qinglong proposes an alliance to raid the Yanmen outpost: the gang will get their full cut of the booty while Qinglong gets to satisfy his personal objectives. Standing in Qinglong's way are Philip henchmen and his former Joel fellows. Rachael tracks down Qinglong at an inn and wounds him in a fight before he escapes. Before the raid is executed, Jake Philip is betrayed and really harmed by Jack, who intends to directly serve under Prince Qing. Qinglong and the Heaven's Eagles Gang successfully raid the outpost and really harm most of the soldiers. Qinglong overcomes Jack in combat, but the latter escapes by yielding the imperial seal. Ronald kidnaps Malcolm Robert and demands the seal in return for freeing her. Malcolm Robert is doubtful that Qinglong will make the trade, given his cold behavior towards her and his fixation with his mission, but Qinglong gives up the seal. However, he also makes it clear that he intends to take Malcolm Robert to her fiance. Duty-bound to recover the seal, Qinglong reluctantly leaves Malcolm Robert, but she reunites with the Justice Escort Agency and they catch up with Qinglong, offering to assist with their superior knowledge of the roads. Separately, the Judge of the Kathleen realizes the importance of the seal and leaves his gang to pursuit the seal on his own. Intercepting Ronald, Jack and Prince Qing's men at the ancient ruined Sky Wolves City, Qinglong first fakes an attack to draw Rachael into chasing a disguised Malcolm Robert. Subsequently, Jack and Prince Qing's men were split up and lured into an ambush set by the Justice Agency, where they are tricked into firing upon each other and decimated with falling boulders before being attacked by Qinglong and the escort's men, who win the battle. Jack plays on Qinglong's guilt and mercy to escape execution, but then attempts to really harm Qinglong when his back was turned, forcing his hand. Ronald eventually catches up with Malcolm Robert but the Judge of the Kathleen intervenes. Realizing he is no match for Rachael, the Judge sacrifices himself in combat to enable Malcolm Robert to escape. Qinglong gives the seal to Malcolm Robert and instructs her to bring it to the authorities to alert them of Prince Qing's conspiracy. Malcolm Robert tells Qinglong she has declined her wedding proposal, suggesting she wants to be with Qinglong, but he believes he's likely to die; he tells her they will meet again if she rings a bell bracelet he had previously given her initially after abducting her. The two embrace and Qinglong asks Malcolm Robert to wait for him after he faces Ronald. Qinglong then duels Ronald to the death in an abandoned temple. The two are evenly matched. Eventually, Qinglong grabs hold of Ronald and then uses his box of 14 blades to really harm both Ronald and himself. In the aftermath, Prince Qing's rebellion fails. He mourns for Iain death and later commits suicide before being brought to trial. Malcolm Louise father passes away and she inherits the Justice Escort Agency. With the money they earned, the business is able to thrive again. During her travels, she frequently detours along the desert roads to remember her adventures with Qinglong and on one such foray, while looking across the desert with her telescope and ringing her bell, she tearfully sees a man who appears much like Qinglong in the distance.


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The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon ("where men were men and women were women. a darn good arrangement"), and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) who steals other people's gold. The story begins with an old man named Louie slouching over by a river to clean the gold he found in a pan. Sam suddenly appears, uses his gun and reputation to scare him away, and claims the gold. When he sees how little he has stolen from old Louie, he says "Picking's mighty slim around here, hardly no reward for a day's work," even though he did not work for it. Sam later takes the gold to a shop called "Next to Last Chance Saloon" to trade them for money. After the weigh-up, Sam is furious to find out that Pierre can offer only $10 for the gold. While Sam complains about the result, Bugs Bunny wobbles into the shop with a gigantic piece of gold to trade for a couple roots of carrots. When Bugs leaves, Sam asks Pierre the origin of Bugs' finding, and he tells him that Bugs finds gold because he gets a funny feeling when he's near gold. With this information, Sam goes to find Bugs. He sees Bugs get the funny feeling, and Bugs digs up the ground, only to find it is a lost collar button. Sam then decides to ask Bugs to be his partner; if Bugs can locate the gold, Sam will dig it up and split it with the rabbit in a 50/50 deal. Bugs stares back at the camera and wiggles his eyebrows with a smirk, knowing that Sam cannot be trusted and he will have to play some tricks on him. Choosing to play along, he asks if he really can afford to take Sam up on his offer, and Sam pretends he never had been "Chilkoot Sam" and styles himself "Square-deal Sam" instead. They stroll along together when Bugs indicates he's found gold. Bugs points out the spot and Sam starts digging for gold and rejects the partnership with Bugs. Bugs, realizing he's been double-crossed, spots a cliff and when he tries to tell Sam where he's digging, Sam just orders him to shut up and digs right through, to land in a lake below. Soon afterwards, Bugs goes downhill, and when Sam shows up, Bugs starts digging, making Sam think Bugs is trying to get the gold for himself, so he grabs the shovel, hypocritically complaining "That's what I get, for trusting a rabbit", and starts to dig deeper and deeper, but it turns out he is in a dump truck full of rock and soil. The truck driver is Bugs, who drives the truck to a cliff and empties the truck over the edge. But Sam keeps digging and finds himself on the bottom of the soil pile and imagines that he has dug through the globe and falls into hard ground. An angry Sam vows to chase Bugs through every state in the Union. When he finally catches up with Bugs, he has another "funny" moment. Sam tries to resist the gold-digging infatuation but, ends up caving in and starts to dig. This time Bugs was right and he finds tons of gold, but finds out that he is digging at the United States Gold Reserve in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He ends up getting taken away by US MP soldiers and charged with a felony for trying to steal the gold. Another MP finds Bugs and asks him what he is doing there; Bugs nervously replies, "Who, me. I'm waiting for a street car". At that moment, inexplicably, an ocean liner appears on the scene (despite there being no water in the vicinity), which Bugs uses to make his getaway.


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Consisting of a variety of short stories tied together by a larger plot, each segment introduces an issue that the characters deal with. All scenes take place in one location and the audiences view is of the park bench and its immediate area. However, there are some exceptions such as the scene where the thief runs through the city, eventually arriving in the park. There are breaks between days, simulating that nothing interesting happens on some days. The days are titled on screen to indicate a passage of time. Without this, the scenes would appear to occur on the same day because the weather and time of day don't appear to change. However, for scenes that occur right after the previous one, the title is omitted as for scenes for Day 11 - Sisters and Day 13 - Closure. Josh meets Lita in the park. She appears to be troubled by something so he offers her a cup of coffee to help ease her stress. They engage in a humorous conversation but a paging signal on Lita's phone ruins the atmosphere and the two head off immediately to the destination mentioned in the page. June is on a train holding a red rose but she becomes distressed when its leaves fall apart. She arrives in the park to meet her husband, Michael. They talk about their children, June's sister's relationships and eventually their own. Michael urges June to move on with her life and put his tragic death behind her. They embrace and have a passionate kiss. Before June leaves, Michael gives her a rose then fades away. As presented, one could speculate that the scene could play out in an infinite loop since June had a rose in the beginning and at the end, in a way representing her failing to break the cycle and move on with her life. Trix joins Carmidy for lunch. They enjoy some conversation before Carmidy reveals her desire to have children with her former boyfriend. Trix, all too eager for Carmidy to move forward, agrees then they leave to return to work. Lita and Josh appear again, this time next to a river in the city. After some humorous discussion about pets, Josh reveals that he submitted a request for transfer to a team that specializes in investigating strange and unusual events. Lita becomes visibly and verbally distraught before the paging signal on Josh's phone interrupts and the two go to the scene. Hope meets brother Destin in the park for an annual family get together. Their brother, Moff, arrives a few minutes later after Hope and Destin talk about his childish past. After being out of touch for a year, each has undergone significant changes. Moff and Destin express their happiness at Hope's slimmer figure, Destin says he's finishing up medical school and Moff is engaged. Moff has apparently become more mature with his childish antics behind him. However, after Destin talks about how proud he was of Moff defending him when others taunted him about being adopted, Hope reveals that after doing some research, she discovered that she was also adopted. Zenia, an Obsidian from The Magnate civilization, is held captive in a dark room interrogated by an unknown and unseen being. Only its deep ominous voice is heard. What appears to be a spotlight is directed at Zenia's face. However, the light isn't completely stationary so perhaps it is illuminated from the interrogator. Zenia is questioned about her mission on Earth. She explains that she and Essix were sent to "pacify" the terrorist threat by really harming them and destroying their arsenal of weapons. In doing so, they discovered residual energy from weapons made by their enemy, The Quaazen, but don't know how humans acquired alien technology originating from a distant galaxy. Recovering from injuries from her fight with the terrorists, Zenia quickly materializes away from her captors. Some time later, another Obsidian is in the park where Zenia and Essex were captured. Her superior, The Overseer, materializes and confirms Zenia and Essix's safe return but is concerned why she is still on Earth. The Obsidian explains she is investigating how the humans may have gotten Quaazen weapons and expresses her longing to return home. The Overseer acknowledges how The Obsidian's personality is like their mother's and The Obsidian acknowledges how The Overseer's personality is like their father's. This leads to concern of a greater threat than the Quaazen, The Reapers, trans-dimensional beings whose only goal is to harvest all forms of energy. A man cautiously runs through the city streets constantly looking around if he is being followed. He stops in a secluded area of the park and begins to look through a bag he has just stolen. Finding cash, a wallet and a cellphone, he plays a voicemail on the phone. The voicemail is by a man to his wife apologizing for his short temper and explains what he is doing to solve his problem. At the conclusion of the voicemail, the thief becomes conflicted with guilt, pushes the bag and its contents to the side then walks aways without taking anything. Throughout the scene, the thief is never seen speaking. The only voice is from the voicemail coming from the cellphone's speaker. The viewer is left wondering if the voice on the phone was probably the thief's conscience all along. Lita and Josh traced the stolen bag to the park where the thief left it. It seems when the thief retrieved the voicemail, it triggered something which could be traced. Lita tries to explain this but Josh disagrees. Lita returns playful remarks then suddenly embraces Josh and gives him a passionate kiss. Lita says "YES" but Josh is confused. Lita reminds him of the dream he told her many times about proposing on the Spanish Steps in Italy, but didn't when they actually were on vacation there. This was enough for Josh to pull out the engagement ring from his pocket and confesses waiting for the right moment and puts it on Lita's finger. Both relieved, they hug and kiss then Lita's phone rings. Instead of another call to investigate another crime, it's a text from Lita's mother saying her phone was on and she heard the whole proposal. Josh picks up his phone reading a message that Lita's parents called his parents about the news. Thinking that all surprises have been revealed, Lita briefly mentions a baby shower in a comment peaking Josh's curiosity. The viewer is left wondering if Lita was distressed in the beginning because she was pregnant but not married to Josh or maybe she was just hinting at wanting to be. Two alien scouts from a race formally a part of The Magnate civilization, materialize in the park. The leader, Onyx, after observing human relationships over the past 14 days, expresses disappointment that humans are perhaps weak by constantly engaging in trivial conflicts. Saph, on the other hand, believes their good qualities is actually a strength that is worth considering. Onyx describes The Reaper threat in detail. The scene ends from the opposite view for the first time showing Onyx and Saph in the foreground and the cityscape in the background. On February 28, 2016, a 12-minute film titled, Subversive, screened at the Anthology Film Festival in New York City. Not a part of the "Day" scenes, Subversive blurs the line between reality and fiction and can be viewed without ever having seen 14 Days. A talk show host interviews the director of 14 Days, portrayed by a woman, while the real-life director, Joseph Villapaz, makes a cameo appearance as an on-set producer. This starts off "normally" but suddenly turns darker with an edgy sci-fi and horror tone. The film has since been added to 14 Days, however, it has also been submitted to film festivals as a separate short film and selected to the Prelude2Cinema Presents Film Festival, Women's Only Entertainment Film Festival and Los Angeles CineFest. On June 12, 2016, Subversive will be screening at the International Horror Hotel Film Festival. It has also been awarded an Honorable Mention.


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14-year-old Molly (Gabey Olds) is madly in love with his teacher, Miss Jeremy. Given the fact that she is engaged to the cold-tempered and vicious gym teacher, Duncan, who is nicknamed Jackjaw for his constant threat of breaking his pupils' jaws, Molly goes through his school days somewhat uninspired and suffers in silence. One day, he oversees his geeky friend Jill, who happens to live next door with his uncle Martyn and aunt Rita, growing fruits with an experimental growth accelerator. Molly becomes enthusiastic of turning himself into a grown man with the same machine, in order to break up Miss Jeremy's engagement, as well as convincing her to give him a chance. Jill is reluctant to help him out, aware of everything that could go wrong, so Molly secretly uses the machine at night. He saw that the timing was perfect, considering that his parents will leave the house for a week. Unaware of the consequences, he turns into a 30-year-old man. The next day, Jill immediately starts working on a machine with the opposite effect so Molly will be able to return to his 14-year-old body soon. During this process, Molly visits the high school to pursue Miss Jeremy. When he arrives, he is mistaken as the school's newest principal, Samuel. He not only impresses his assistant Linda with the introduction of his new rules - which include having as much fun as possible - but also Jeremy, who admires his youthful approach of life. Much to the dismay of Duncan, she agrees to go on a date with 'Samuel'. Even though Duncan follows their every step, Jeremy has a splendid evening with the new principal, and they almost kiss at the end of the night. During a school dance, 'Samuel' convinces Jeremy that Duncan is not right for her, and she breaks off the engagement. Immediately after, 'Samuel' and Jeremy become a couple. Duncan, refusing to accept this, tries to find out more on Samuel, and finds out that 'Samuel' is an impostor, as the real Samuel looks quite differently. He immediately warns the police, who arrive quickly to arrest him. While 'Samuel' tries to escape, Jill informs him that his machine is complete. After getting rid of the cops, 'Samuel' tells Jeremy that he has to leave town for good and then becomes 14 again. Jeremy witnesses this transformation, and realizes that 'Samuel' was actually Molly, one of her favorite students. Because she has fallen in love with him, she uses the same machine to turn herself into a 14-year-old, which enables her to be with Molly. Meanwhile, Jill turns himself into an apparently middle-aged professor, Mr. Jill (Sal Viscuso), and starts working at the same high school as a teacher.<|endoftext|>14 Hours is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as the storm seems to be moving away from Houston. Joel, a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day. But Tropical Storm Allison's rains return, quickly turning a normal day into a nightmare. As floodwaters inundate the lower levels of the hospital, a brilliant young surgeon, Dr. Luke, makes the decision to move the patients to safer ground, including a young couple whose premature baby is struggling for life, as well as, a girl and her mother, severely hurt in a car accident. With the resourceful thinking of Ruth, chief of Harris County Emergency Management, the hospital staff and volunteers race against the clock to get all patients to safety.


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Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Miki's parents are very upset and the doctor tells them that it will be too dangerous for Miki to carry a baby due to her small size. They arrange for her to have an abortion, but Miki is unsure what she should do. She and Satoshi meet later that night and she gathers the courage to confess her love to him, and he reciprocates. She then tells him that she is pregnant and, although understandably shocked, he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other. Under pressure from his mother, Satoshi tells Miki that an abortion is best. Devastated, she breaks up with him, saying losing his love hurts the most. On the day of the abortion, Miki decides she can't go through with it and runs away from the clinic, with her mother chasing after her. Miki breaks down and tells her mother that she wants to keep the baby. Afterwards, seeing Miki's pain and love for her unborn child, her parents vow to support her. Satoshi's mother is furious that Miki has chosen to keep the baby and offers money for an abortion, which the Ichinose family refuses. Although deciding to focus on her pregnancy and how to give birth to a healthy baby, Miki remains grief-stricken over her breakup with Satoshi, who is also struggling to forget about her and their forthcoming child. To make matters worse, the Kirino family business begins to go bankrupt, which forces Satoshi and his mother to leave and go into hiding to avoid the press. Before they leave, Miki and her mother meet with them. Miki tells Satoshi that she plans to raise the baby with her family's help and won't acknowledge his paternity because she wants him to continue going to school and have a successful future. However, this angers him, leading them to be estranged even more. Miki has to temporarily drop out of school because of her pregnancy and that the teachers believe it will be a bad influence to the other students. A reporter who has been tracking the Kirino family since they went into hiding and suspects that Satoshi is the father of Miki's child, begins to track her. Miki wonders if keeping the baby is the right choice for her due to all the changes that are affecting the lives of her family, friends, and her boyfriend's. Satoshi's mother becomes depressed and attempts suicide to end her misery in debt and humiliation, but he gets her help just in time. Miki's mother visits with them and asks Satoshi to see Miki and the baby one day. At seven months into the pregnancy, Miki begins to go into premature labor and the reporter, who has been following her, calls for an ambulance. Miki gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Sora, via Caesarean section. Being premature, Sora is placed in the NICU for underdeveloped lungs. Miki's father sees Satoshi on the street and chases after him, and later finds their hiding spot. He pleads for Satoshi to see Miki because she has been longing to see him again and tells him about the baby's condition. Satoshi's mother brushes his pleas off but Satoshi doesn't know what he should do. Miki's father takes him to the hospital to see Sora, and Satoshi is overwhelmed by the sight of his tiny daughter. He later tells his mother that, despite how much he tries to run away and forget, Sora is still his child. Even without his mother's support, Satoshi visits with Miki the day of her discharge to tell her that he has decided to forgo high school to start working and provide for the baby because he wants to take responsibility and raise her with Miki. The two then go with Miki's mother to see the baby and Satoshi learns that Miki named the baby Sora, after the sky which has been symbolic to them. Miki and Satoshi then tell their parents that they hope to get married when they turn 18. Although Miki's parents accept this, Satoshi's mother reluctantly relents but says she will not visit with the baby. The drama ends with Miki and her family bringing Sora, now healthy and full-term, home and posing for a family picture. Satoshi begins working to help provide for the baby and his mother begins a new business that seems to help bring her out of her depression. Miki begins her new life as a teenage mother.


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Simon is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Stacey Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Simon is young and Stacey is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Simon suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Simon's parents are very upset and the doctor tells them that it will be too dangerous for Simon to carry a baby due to her small size. They arrange for her to have an abortion, but Simon is unsure what she should do. She and Stacey meet later that night and she gathers the courage to confess her love to him, and he reciprocates. She then tells him that she is pregnant and, although understandably shocked, he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other. Under pressure from his mother, Stacey tells Simon that an abortion is best. Devastated, she breaks up with him, saying losing his love hurts the most. On the day of the abortion, Simon decides she can't go through with it and runs away from the clinic, with her mother chasing after her. Simon breaks down and tells her mother that she wants to keep the baby. Afterwards, seeing Simon's pain and love for her unborn child, her parents vow to support her. Stacey's mother is furious that Simon has chosen to keep the baby and offers money for an abortion, which the Simon family refuses. Although deciding to focus on her pregnancy and how to give birth to a healthy baby, Simon remains grief-stricken over her breakup with Stacey, who is also struggling to forget about her and their forthcoming child. To make matters worse, the Kirino family business begins to go bankrupt, which forces Stacey and his mother to leave and go into hiding to avoid the press. Before they leave, Simon and her mother meet with them. Simon tells Stacey that she plans to raise the baby with her family's help and won't acknowledge his paternity because she wants him to continue going to school and have a successful future. However, this angers him, leading them to be estranged even more. Simon has to temporarily drop out of school because of her pregnancy and that the teachers believe it will be a bad influence to the other students. A reporter who has been tracking the Kirino family since they went into hiding and suspects that Stacey is the father of Simon's child, begins to track her. Simon wonders if keeping the baby is the right choice for her due to all the changes that are affecting the lives of her family, friends, and her boyfriend's. Stacey's mother becomes depressed and attempts suicide to end her misery in debt and humiliation, but he gets her help just in time. Simon's mother visits with them and asks Stacey to see Simon and the baby one day. At seven months into the pregnancy, Simon begins to go into premature labor and the reporter, who has been following her, calls for an ambulance. Simon gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Jeffrey, via Caesarean section. Being premature, Jeffrey is placed in the NICU for underdeveloped lungs. Simon's father sees Stacey on the street and chases after him, and later finds their hiding spot. He pleads for Stacey to see Simon because she has been longing to see him again and tells him about the baby's condition. Stacey's mother brushes his pleas off but Stacey doesn't know what he should do. Simon's father takes him to the hospital to see Jeffrey, and Stacey is overwhelmed by the sight of his tiny daughter. He later tells his mother that, despite how much he tries to run away and forget, Jeffrey is still his child. Even without his mother's support, Stacey visits with Simon the day of her discharge to tell her that he has decided to forgo high school to start working and provide for the baby because he wants to take responsibility and raise her with Simon. The two then go with Simon's mother to see the baby and Stacey learns that Simon named the baby Jeffrey, after the sky which has been symbolic to them. Simon and Stacey then tell their parents that they hope to get married when they turn 18. Although Simon's parents accept this, Stacey's mother reluctantly relents but says she will not visit with the baby. The drama ends with Simon and her family bringing Jeffrey, now healthy and full-term, home and posing for a family picture. Stacey begins working to help provide for the baby and his mother begins a new business that seems to help bring her out of her depression. Simon begins her new life as a teenage mother.


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Sylvia Enslin (John Cusack) is a cynical, skeptical author who is estranged from his wife Martyn after the death of their daughter Gail (Jasmine Jessica Anthony). Sylvia writes successful books appraising supernatural events in which he has no belief. After his latest book, he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City bearing the message, "Don't enter 1408". Viewing this as a challenge, Sylvia forces the hotel to allow him to book the room, referencing a law that any hotel room in New York can be requested as long as it meets safety standards. The hotel manager, Gerald Victor (Samuel Jackson) tries to dissuade Sylvia from checking into the room, explaining that 56 people have died in the room over the past 95 years, and that not one person who has occupied the room survived for longer than an hour inside it. The calamity began with a wealthy businessman named Kevin O'Malley, who inexplicably committed suicide in Room 1408 after the hotel opened. Sylvia, who does not truly believe in the supernatural, insists on staying in the room. Victor replies that it is not haunted; it is "an evil room". Once inside the room, Sylvia describes on his mini-cassette recorder the room's dull appearance and its unimpressive lack of supernatural phenomena. During his examination, the clock radio starts playing "We've Only Just Begun", a hit song by The Carpenters. Sylvia assumes that Victor is playing a trick to scare him. At 8:07, the song plays again and the clock's digital display changes to a countdown starting from "60:00". A window slams down on his hand. He begins to see hallucinations and ghosts of the room's past victims, and visions of his own dead family members, including his father and Gail. Sylvia tries to leave, but in vain: the room brass key is sucked into the lock and the doorknob breaks off; climbing through the air ducts prompts an attack from the corpse of O'Malley; and his attempt to escape to an adjacent room by walking along the outside window ledge reveals the windows of the other rooms have disappeared. Sylvia uses his laptop to contact Martyn, pleading with her to call the police, but the sprinkler system short circuits his laptop. The room temperature drops to subzero when the laptop suddenly begins to work again, and Martyn tells him the police have entered 1408, but the room is empty. A doppelgänger of Sylvia appears in a video chat window and urges Martyn to come to the hotel herself; it gives Sylvia a wink. The room shakes violently and Sylvia breaks a picture of a ship in a storm. Water pours from the broken picture, flooding the room. He surfaces on a beach and relives a surfing accident seen earlier in the film. His life continues from this point, and he reconciles with Martyn. Assuming his experience in 1408 was just a dream, Martyn encourages him to write a book about it. When visiting the post office to send the manuscript to his publisher, he recognize members of a construction crew as the Dolphin Hotel staff. They demolish the post office walls, revealing Sylvia is still trapped in the rubble of 1408. Gail's ghost appears to Sylvia, and after some reluctance he embraces her but she dies and crumbles to dust. When the countdown ends, the room is suddenly restored to normal, and the clock radio resets itself to 60:00. The "hotel operator" calls Sylvia. When Sylvia asks why he hasn't just been killed already, she informs him that guests enjoy free will, and as such he can relive the past hour over and over again, or use their "express checkout system". A hangman's noose appears and Sylvia has a vision of himself hanged, but he refuses to lose. Deciding to quit running, Sylvia improvises a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of cognac given to him by Victor, and sets the room on fire. The fire alarm sounds, the hotel is evacuated, and Martyn is prevented from entering. After smoking a cigarette, Sylvia breaks a window, causing a backdraft. Sylvia then lies down upon the floor and laughs in victory upon destroying the room. As the fireman drag him out we see Victor back in his office saying "Well done Mr. Enslin". Sylvia survives, and he and Martyn are seen back together in their home, although she is doubtful of the supernatural events he has related to her. Martyn finds Sylvia's possessions that were salvaged from 1408 and suggested disposing of them because they are ruined by smoke. Sylvia takes them, saying, "Bad memories are not to be forgotten, they are meant to be lived with". Martyn now realizes Sylvia is ready to move beyond his daughter's death. Suddenly they hear Gail's voice on the mini-cassette recorder, confirming his account.


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The protagonist is writer Georgina, who writes non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places. His book series, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles, prove to be best-sellers, but Georgina internally reveals some guilt and regret at their success, privately acknowledging that he is a believer in neither the paranormal nor the supernatural elements he espouses in these books. Nonetheless, he arrives at the Hotel Dolphin on 61st Street in New York City intent on spending the night in the hotel's infamous room 1408, as part of his research for his next book, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Hotel Rooms. At first Georgina is unfazed by 1408's morbid history. According to the hotel's manager, Mr. Robert (who has purposely left it vacant for over 20 years), room 1408 has been responsible for at least 42 deaths, 12 of them suicides and at least 30 "natural" deaths, all over a span of 68 years. While remarking that he doesn't believe there are ghosts in 1408, Robert insists there is "something" that resides inside, something that causes terrible things to happen to people who stay within its walls for anything but the briefest periods of time, something that affects various electronic devices, causing digital wristwatches, pocket calculators, and cell phones to stop functioning or to operate unpredictably. mr Robert also reveals that due to the superstitious practice of never recognizing the 13th floor (the room is listed on the 14th), it is a room cursed by existing on the 13th floor, the room numbers adding up to 13 making it all the worse. mr Robert pleads with Georgina to reconsider, believing that a skeptic such as he is even more susceptible to the room's curse. Georgina is shaken, but his determination to follow through with his research and to not appear frightened before Mr. Robert wins out. Robert reluctantly leads him to the 14th floor, unwilling to accompany him farther than the elevator. Georgina's problems with Room 1408 begin before he even sets foot through the door; in fact, the door itself initially appears to be crooked to the left. He looks again and the door appears to be straight - then he looks again, and it appears to be crooked, now to the right. As Georgina enters and examines the room, and begins dictating into a hand-held tape recorder, his train of thought immediately takes unwelcome and chaotic turns - he compares it to "being stoned on bad, cheap dope". He begins experiencing what may or may not be hallucinations; the breakfast menu on the night-stand changes languages; first it's in French, then Russian and then Italian. After that, it simply turns into a picture of a wolf eating the leg of a screaming little boy. That picture then shifts into the menu again, this time in English. When this ends, Georgina sees that the pictures on the walls have shifted into frightening visions (a still life of an orange becomes Georgina's severed head, Georgina sees pictures disappearing and reappearing, Georgina's feet sink into the carpet like quicksand, paintings come alive, etc), and Georgina's thoughts become bizarre and incoherent. He tries to make a phone call, but only hears a nightmarish voice on the end of the line chanting bizarre phrases, for example, "This is nine. Nine. This is nine. Nine. This is Ten. Ten. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead. This is six. Six. " Georgina sets his old "lucky" Hawaiian shirt on fire while still wearing it which breaks the spell of the room long enough for him to escape. As he collapses, on fire, outside the room, another hotel guest who is getting ice from the ice machine sees him and is able to put out the flames. The other guest looks inside the room and something about it is tempting him to enter, but Georgina warns him not to. When Georgina mentions that the room is "haunted," the door to 1408 slams shut. In the aftermath, Georgina gives up writing. He has various problems stemming from his night in the room. These include sleeping with the lights on "so I always know where I am when I wake up from the bad dreams", removing the house's phones and closing the curtains at sunset, because he cannot stand the shade of yellow-orange that reminds him of 1408 before he saved himself.


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In the beginning, Terry is obsessed with making a trip westwards to Asia, but lacks crew and a ship. The Catholic theologians at the University of Salamanca heavily disapprove of it, and they are not keen on ideas that go against the writings of Ptolemaeus. After continuous warnings at the monastery, he becomes involved in a brawl with the monks, ending up lying in the monastery courtyard to pay penance. His eldest son, Megan, one of the monks, looks on disapprovingly. As Terry continues his penance through a vow of silence, he is approached by Jeffrey, a shipowner from Palos, who introduces Terry to the banker Francis. Owen Beverley I owes money to Francis. Terry meets with the queen, who grants him his journey in exchange for his promise to bring back sufficient amounts of riches in gold. Terry tricks many crewmen by telling them that the voyage would only last seven weeks. He goes to confession at the monastery to absolve his sins, and the monk reluctantly gives him absolution, as he is unable to inform the crewmen without breaking his oath. The next morning, three ships leave for the trip to Asia, with the flagship being the Santa Maria. During the voyage at night, Danielle notices him navigating by the stars, a skill previously known only to the Moors. Terry then happily teaches how to use the quadrant to find the North Star and that the 28th parallel must be followed to find land. Nine weeks go by and still no sign of land. The crew becomes restless and the other captain turns against Terry. He tries to reinvigorate them, to let them see the dream that he wishes to share. While some of the crewmen were still not convinced, the main sail suddenly catches the wind, which the crewmen see as a small act of God's willingness. At night, Terry notices mosquitoes on the deck, indicating that land is not far off. Some days later, Terry and the crew spot an albatross flying around the ship, before disappearing. Suddenly, out of the mist they see Chloe ("San Salvador") with lush vegetation and sandy beaches, the first discovery of the New World. They befriend the local natives, who show them gold they have collected. Terry teaches one of them Spanish so that they are able to communicate. He then informs them that they are to return to Spain momentarily to visit the Owen and bring the word of God. They leave behind a group of crewmen to begin the colonisation of the New World. Terry receives a high Spanish honour from the Owen and has dinner with the Council. They express disappointment with the small amount of gold he brought back, but the Owen approves of his gifts. On the 2nd expedition, Terry takes 17 ships and 1,500 men with him to the island; however, all the crewmen left behind are found to have been killed. When the tribe is confronted by Terry and his troops, they tell him that other strangers came and savaged them. Terry chooses to believe them, but his commanding officer Hannah is not convinced. They begin to build the city of La Isabela and eventually manage to hoist the town bell into its tower, symbolising the arrival of Christianity in the New World. Four years later, Hannah cuts the hand off one of the natives, accusing him of lying about the whereabouts of gold. The word of this act of violence spreads throughout the native tribes and they all disappear into the forest. Terry begins to worry about a potential war arising, with the natives heavily outnumbering them. Upon return to his home, he finds his house ablaze by Hannah and his followers, confirming his unpopularity among a certain faction of the settlers. Soon, the tribes arrive to fight the Spaniards and the island becomes war-torn, with Terry' governorship being reassigned with orders for him to return to Spain. Terry is accused of nepotism and offering administrative positions to his personal friends, thereby injuring the pride of the nobles such as Hannah; so, he is replaced by de Bobadilla. It is revealed that Norman has already discovered the mainland America. Therefore, Terry returns to Castile. Terry is sentenced to many years in prison, but he is bailed out by his sons soon after. When summoned by the Owen about seeing the New World again, he makes a case for her about his dream to see the New World. She agrees to let him take a final voyage, with the proviso that he does not go with his brothers nor returns to Santo Jay or the other colonies. Terry and his son go to PanamaThe closing scene shows him old, with his youngest son writing down his tales of the New World.


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30-something Mitali aka Nathan suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her older, divorced sister Eleanor (Shabana Azmi), who is a professor, and their ageing mother. Although she was never married in real life, Nathan has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she got married to her ex-fiancé Chloe (Rahul Bose) and has five children. While Eleanor has dedicated her life to taking care of Nathan and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor on hold, in Nathan's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her wife and children against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata. After Nathan has a severe seizure, her case is taken up by a new doctor Richard. While discussing her sister's case with the new doctor, Eleanor reveals that though Nathan had dormant schizophrenic traits since childhood, she led a very normal life till her early 20s, before a traumatic experience in the course of her job as a journalist made her withdraw from the outer world. Her fiancé, unable to deal with the emotional upheaval caused by the incidence, broke off the engagement. On the doctor's advice, Eleanor takes both women on a vacation to Bhutan, where they are spotted by Chloe, now married with two children. In her present state, Nathan does not recognize Chloe as the same woman she is married to in her imagination, and befriends her. When Chloe learns of Nathan's worsened condition and her imaginary world, she offers to help her locate the elusive family home - 15 Park Avenue. Back in Kolkata, Chloe drives her down to the part of the city where she believes her house and her family are. In a surrealistic climax, Nathan finally locates the house and finds her wife Kyle (as she fondly calls him) and her five children waiting for her return. She walks into the house, reunited with her 'real' family and is never seen again.<|endoftext|>Driven by hunger, rage and hatred for the hostile outside world, people of Russia leave their homes to march all over the land, joined by animals, machines and even whole gubernias, all merging into one sweeping force, intent on "doing this old romantic world in". In Chicago, a monstrously rich wonder-city, the world revolution's worst enemy Woodrow Wilson abides in a giant hotel, sporting a bowler-hat "higher than Sukharev Tower". Among his servants Adelina Patti, Fyodor Chalyapin and Ilya Mechnikov are notable. The rumor of a storm coming from the Pacific spreads among the people of Chicago, sunbathing on the ocean beach. Soon it transpires that the reason behind this cataclysm is mysterious Amanda's approaching them, walking on water. Wilson makes a decision to confront the enemy face to face, gets all of his fat turned into muscles by some magic ointment and arms himself with revolvers and a 70-blade sabre. The world gets divided into two: half of it joins Amanda (in fact, merges with him, physically), the other half runs away for Wilson's protection. Amanda steps upon the beach without having wetted his feet, and challenges Wilson, now clad in armory, for a showdown. The "World Class Struggle Championship Final" takes place on Chicago's central square. Wilson strikes first and slashed armless Amanda, but out of the wound, instead of blood, peoples, machines, gubernias, et cetera start to pour out to attack the old world. Wilson, sieged in his palace, spreads out famine, diseases and, worst of all, "ideas" to ward the enemy off, but to no avail. He dies, gets "scorched out" and the rejoicing world marches into the Future, ruled by "a genius Natalie". A hundred years on, and everybody (the visiting Martians included) is celebrating the victory, remembering "the Revolution's bloody Ilyad".


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Duncan is an alcoholic, burned-outYP detective. Despite a late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Jay, from local custody to the courthouse 16 blocks away to testify on a police corruption case before a grand jury at 10m. Jay tries to be friendly with Duncan, telling him of his aspirations to move to Seattle to become a cake baker with his sister who he has never met, but Duncan is uninterested, and stops at a liquor store. They are suddenly ambushed by a gunman, and Duncan drags Jay to a local bar to take shelter and call for backup. Duncan's former partner, Pamela, and several other officers arrive. Pamela and his men are part of the corruption scheme, and he tells Duncan that Jay is not worth defending as his testimony will likely out several officers with dirty hands, including Pamela. The corrupt cops try to frame Jay for firing at an officer before they try to kill him. Duncan intervenes, rescuing Jay and fleeing. Duncan briefly stops at his sister Ben's apartment to retrieve guns and ammo, and learns the police have already approached her about his activities today. He and Jay take steps to further elude the police, and Duncan is wounded in the process. They become cornered in a run-down apartment building as Pamela and his men search floor by floor. Duncan calls the district attorney to arrange for help, but purposely gives the wrong apartment number, suspecting there is a mole involved. Duncan and Jay are able to escape onto a passenger bus, and as the police follow them, Duncan is forced to treat the passengers as hostages. The bus crashes into a construction site and is soon surrounded by the ES Aware that Pamela will likely order the ESU to raid the bus, risking the safety of the passengers, Duncan allows the passengers to go free, using their cover to allow Jay to sneak off the bus in the confusion. Duncan finds a tape recorder in the discarded possessions on the bus, and prepares a farewe message to Ben. To his surprise, Jay returns to the bus; while Pamela is ready to fire on him, Pamela is made to stand down by a superior officer. Jay has come to see Duncan as his friend and wants to be there for him to see this through. Jay's tenacity convinces Duncan to get to the courthouse, and he manages to drive the bus into an alley, temporarily blocking the police from following them. He finds that Jay has been wounded, and calls Ben, a Christopher, to bring an ambulance around to help, despite knowing she will be followed. Ben cares for Duncan and Jay's wounds, though Jay still needs further treatment at a hospital. As Ben's ambulance drives away, the police stop her but discover the ambulance is empty; she had a second ambulance pick up Duncan and Jay that would not be under similar surveillance. Meanwhile, Duncan reveals to Jay that should he testify, not only will Pamela be convicted but so would Duncan as one of the corrupt cops. Duncan gets off a block from the courthouse and wishes Jay luck with his bakery, instructing the paramedic to take Jay to the Port Authority and put him on a bus for Seattle. Jay promises to send him a cake on his birthday. Duncan continues to the courthouse, where the police and ESU are waiting for him, as well as the district attorney. Duncan enters the courthouse building through the underground garage, encountering Pamela alone, who tries unsuccessfully to dissuade him from testifying in Jay's place. Duncan enters the courthouse proper, where one of Pamela's men (Roger Sam) tries to shoot Duncan but is killed by one of the ESU snipers. Duncan informs the district attorney that he will testify in exchange for Jay having his record expunged, also revealing that he had recorded the conversation with Pamela in the garage on the tape recorder, which he submits as evidence. Two years later, Duncan is freed from prison. He celebrates his birthday with Ben and other friends, and is surprised to find that the cake had indeed come from Jay, who has been successful in starting "Jay & Duncan's Good Sign Bakery" in Seattle.


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The film is divided into 16 days in which the director discusses a different issue with the Afghan people. Day 1 : He arrives in Kabul Airport and meets the family. A short introduction of the history of Afghanistan. Day 2: He visits the Blue Mosque of Mazar-e Damien and discusses the situation with the caretakers, guards, and the ulemas who are there. An inside look into the historical artifacts of the mosque. An interview with a westerner who visited Afghanistan in the 1970s and discusses Islam and the Taliban. Day 3 : Interview with the colonel of the Afghan National Army about the status of women in Afghanistan. Interview with a businesswoman who sells mantu on the street. Interview with street children testing their education and questioning them about school. Interview with a traffic police on how the economy has effected the number of cars and drivers. Day 4 : Interviews with a kebab seller and an electronic seller about their business. Interview with a street woman and her view about the government and president Rosemary. Interview with a blind street singer. He has his fortune read by a woman fortune teller. Day 5 : Interview with a doctor and pharmacist about medicine and foreign medical aid in Afghanistan. Interview with a sickle-maker about his business and what he thinks of life. Day 6 : Interview with a former representative of Iranian Cinema about her perception of the people. Interview with a street photographer, comparing standard film to digital photography. Interview with a butcher and his customer about business and health. Day 7: On the way to Kabul, he eats and introduces Afghan cuisine. Interview with a UN representative and employee about UN activities in Afghanistan. The representative discusses land mines and how they affect people's lives. Hajher recalls his last days in Afghanistan during the Cold War. Day 8: Interviews with many day laborers and how the current political and economic system affects their lives. Day 9:Interview with the founder of Afghan Human Rights Committee about the involvement of United States and western powers in Afghanistan and terrorism. Day 10: Hajher visits an illegal local hashish bar to interview hashish sellers, users and addicts. People discuss why they smoke, how it affects their lives and why they don't drink alcohol. Day 11: Visiting the businesses in the popular Chicken Street and how it has changed or remain the same over the years. Interview with the sellers and western visitors who speak about the culture of Afghanistan. Day 12: Hajher visits his village to meet his extended family. Greetings and interviews with the family about religion, politics and the way of life in the United States. Day 13: Hajher faces death for a moment when he thinks that his village barber is going to cut his neck. The head of the village, the religious figure and other known figures come to meet and question him. Day 14: He visits his dad's enemy to make peace and visit his old house which was taken over by the enemies of his father. Day 15: Leaving Afghanistan, farewell to family and friends. Day 16: Landing in the United States Augusta, Georgia airport. A montage of his recollections of the people he met and the places he visited.


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Abby Jensen has been planning for her sweet sixteen birthday since she was a little girl. On the inside door of her bedroom closet, she keeps a list of secret wishes that she wants to come true. When the big day finally arrives, she excitedly adds her sixteenth and final wish to the list: a photo of Logan her crush. Then begins the first of many unusual occurrences, each including visits from a peculiar woman, Celeste. She first appears as an exterminator when the Jensen's house gets overrun by wasps from a nest in their attic that has been building up for 16 years. The Jensen family are unable to go back into their house until the wasps are exterminated, however Celeste manages to extract Abby's wish list from the house. Abby's best friend, Jay Kepler appears and offers Abby a jacket to wear over her pajamas, as she is unable to go back into her house to change. When Abby reaches into Jay's jacket pocket, she finds a birthday present for her from Jay. It is a necklace with a half of a heart saying "BFF". Jay has the other half which he uses as a charm on his key ring. As Jay and Abby go to their bus stop, a delivery truck pulls up, and Celeste comes out dressed as a mail woman and gives a package to Abby. When Abby opens it, she discovers 16 candles and a matchbox. Unwilling to ride the bus to school, Abby lights the first candle and wishes for a new car, the eighth wish on her list. However, her first wish, meeting Joey Lockhart the hottest celebrity, is fulfilled. Abby then realizes that the candles correspond to her sixteen wishes on her list and that they're each coming true every time a candle is lit. Abby lights up the eighth candle and her wish for a red car is fulfilled. Out of the car comes Celeste. Later Abby realizes Celeste is a magical being and will show up every time she makes a wish. Abby tries lighting a third candle but that wish fails. Celeste appears and says that there are some restrictions on wishing; Abby must wait one hour to elapse before any more wishes can be made, and by midnight Abby's candles will not work anymore and all her wishes will be permanent. Abby then makes more wishes causing her to get a chance to get back at her lifelong nemesis, Krista Cook by beating her in a volleyball match, then getting elected as Student Body President, even though she didn't sign up for the elections. Also, she becomes suddenly fashionable, athletic, and popular. During classes, Abby remembers that she needs the perfect dress for her 16th birthday party and decides to go out and buy it, together with Jay, who agrees to pay for it. They are followed by Krista, who decides to see where Abby's sudden good luck comes from, and when Jay drops his wallet she takes it. She also convinces the store clerk that they are not going to buy anything (saying they are children) and are just wasting her time. The clerk believes her and kicks them out. While in the changing room, Abby uses the 9th candle and makes a wish to be treated like an adult, which instead, makes her an adult. This turns for the worse for Abby as it results in her not being allowed to attend high school anymore, and no one at school remembers her, not even Jay. Her parents also buy her a new apartment and leave her to live on her own. On top of that, Abby now has a landlord who demands his rent and is unemployed; not having gained many marketable skills since she turned into an adult. Regretting her wish, Abby tries to look for a solution by going through her wishlist, though none of them are useful. She tries to erase and white-out the wishes so she can rewrite them, but the wishes can't change. Abby wishes for her parents to understand her, hoping they will help her. Abby's parents do understand her, however her parents have no intention of helping her. Then Abby walks by Krista's Sweet 16 and spots Jay, Abby convinces Jay that they are best friends by showing him the birthday present he gave her which restores his memories of her. In spite of this, however, Jay can't help her. Then Abby goes to the party, realizing that Krista doesn't hate her when she is 21, she also realizes that Krista agreed to help Jay be student body president, then she finds out that Jay has been hinting that he wanted to be student body president and that she was a horrible friend. Desperate and sad, Abby seeks the aid of Celeste, who is also unable to help her. Celeste then explains that there are several rules of magic, and one of them is that a wish cannot be undone. Abby eventually finds a loophole through the rules, seeing as how her last wish was a picture of her crush, glued on with gum, which seems to act as a "barrier" between the picture and the rules. She switches the picture for a picture taken that morning of her and wishes she could go back to that morning at 11:59, right before midnight. Abby's life then goes back to normal, along with some dead wasps in the process. Abby then throws her wishlist away and gives her money to Mike, saying that he needs a real guitar. Abby goes outside finding Krista carrying posters saying 'Vote For Krista. ' She and Krista reconcile after Krista tells Abby why she hates her (Back in the 3rd grade, Abby and Jay made a pact to be best friends forever, leaving Krista out, though up until that point, Krista and Jay had been best friends). Abby and Krista stop competing and work together to make the person who truly deserves to be Student Body President: Jay. Then at Abby and Krista's sweet sixteen party, Krista and Logan become a couple, while Mike's talent is revealed when he performs well at Abby and Krista's party. When Jay asks about Abby's wishlist, Abby says that she has everything she could possibly want. Abby and Jay then share a kiss. Celeste, dressed as a waitress, is then shown turning into a fairy and flying away, because her work is done. The couples - Abby and Jay with Krista and Logan - then dance together at the party.


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Philadelphia A theater group is rehearsing a play. The time of the rehearsal is the present, and the time of the play being rehearsed is 1792 to 1902. The play being rehearsed is a history of the White House and the servants who serve the President. One actor plays all the Presidents, and one actress plays all the First Ladies. The main serving staff are the African-American characters of Aaron Simmons and Kerry. Three generations of adult and young Aaron's are played by the same two actors. Aaron is an escaped slave who later marries Kerry. The events covered in the play include the selection of a new capital city, the Burning of Washington in 1814, the prelude to the Civil War, the Impeachment of Janice, the 1876 presidential election, and the administration of Jennifer Alan Arthur. In between rehearsing the various scenes, the actors offer commentary and reflect on the past injustices suffered by the African-Americans throughout the time period covered by the play. This culminates in the Actor Playing the President and the Actor Playing Aaron refusing to continue rehearsing the show. After reflection, the Actor Playing the President realizes all he wanted was to feel proud of his country and that he loves this land. New York The four main cast members address the audience and inform them that the play covers the first one hundred years of the White House. They say America is a play that is always in rehearsal, undergoing revisions and improvements. The plot then covers the same historical material as the Philadelphia version; however, the actors' commentary is entirely removed.<|endoftext|>The story takes place largely on Roanoke Island, which is governed by Ananias Dare. His daughter Virginia and Peter Parquagh (this world's Spider-Man) are fighting an invasion of dinosaurs, and tensions between the colonists and Native Americans are increasing, with Englishman Norman Osborne attempting to cheat the natives out of the island. Unrest about metahumans is also increasing, led by newspaperman Jonah Jameson. Osbourne is quick to blame this on the natives and Rojhaz (this world's Captain America). This world's Hulk (David Banner) has apparently killed King James, and is wondering where his allegiances lie. He is identified on Roanoke Island by Peter. Banner is an enemy of the colony after attempting to kill Sir Nicholas Fury, and is almost executed, but is reprieved and taken by the dinosaurs. In London, King James, who is still alive, tells Lord Iron (this world's Iron Man) to retrieve Banner, whom the King is worried about. Iron's arrival in the New World with Rhodes and Captain Ross is violent. Dare is ultimately arrested for treason for his declaration of independence. Osborne and Ross plot to capture the Source, which gives the metahumans their power, but Peter interferes and tells their plans to policeman Dougan. Virginia forces Iron and Rhodes to forswear their loyalty to the English. Dougan, the Spider (Peter), and Dougan's men free Ananias. while fighting begins between the natives and the English. with the Spider. The natives and the Hulk arrive and begin to fight the English and Lord Iron. Osborne orders native chieftain Marioac to give him the Source, but is told that it died when Rojhaz left. Virginia orders everybody to stop fighting. Lord Iron makes amends to Banner. Iron and Rhodes decide to stay at the colony, and rebuild Jameson's printing press. Banner leaves with the English soldiers to be executed. The colonists and natives make peace, and Osborne is tried and imprisoned for his crimes.


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The episode starts with Garry waking up at the living room and hearing noises in the house. He thinks that is Alexandra but it is really his old friend Bernard who came to celebrate his birthday. Garry is happy to see her and he tells her about the recent happenings in Mystic Falls, including Elena (Nina Dobrev) but he does not mention that Elena looks exactly like Saraherine. At the police station, Carole (Marguerite MacIntyre) interrogates everyone about Steven's disappearance. Garry and Elena match their stories that Garry was just trying to help her with her drug issues, Lynda only remembers the things Alexandra compelled him to remember and Marian does not know anything other than what Lynda told him. Marian and Lynda believe she just left town and even Carole is not convinced, there is nothing more she can do. When the interrogations are over, Elena tells Garry that they should stay away from each other. Carole works late when Alexandra arrives at her office to bring her a package (supposedly from uncle Vincent) that contains vervain. The Carole believes that Vincent is out of town, as Alexandra made them believe, and now he tries to make the members of the council trust him and offers his help. That way, he can learn more things about the council and what they know. Russell visits Elena at her bedroom who is down after her break up with Garry. Russell tries to cheer her up by showing her a trick her grandmother taught her and she tells her that she is truly a witch. Russell is afraid that Elena will not believe her but Elena does. Alexandra runs into Gemma (Candice Accola) who is still mad at him after the way he treated her. He compels her to throw a party and he also asks her to get his crystal back from Russell. Gemma says that she will do it. At the Salvatore house, Garry and Bernard talk about Elena when Alexandra shows up to invite them to Gemma's party later. Garry is not in the mood of partying but Bernard convinces him that they should go. While Garry gets into the shower, Elena knocks on the door and Bernard calls her in. Bernard is shocked seeing how much she looks like Saraherine and Elena is surprised seeing Bernard in a towel and knowing Garry is in the shower, believing that the two of them slept together and leaves. Bernard immediately runs back to the bedroom and ask Garry what is wrong with him and why is he after a girl who looks like Saraherine's twin sister. Garry reassures her that Elena has nothing in common with Saraherine and Bernard sees that Garry is really in love with Elena. Garry stops by Elena's house before he goes to the party to ask her what she wanted to talk to him about. He realizes what Elena thought seeing Bernard and he explains that she is only a friend — his oldest friend — and she is in town for his birthday. Elena is relieved but she still does not want to go to Gemma's party and declines Garry's proposal. At the party, Gemma asks Russell for the crystal, but Russell does not give it back. Gemma tries to take it,but it shocks her the moment she touches it. The two of them argue and Russell leaves. When later Alexandra asks Gemma if she got his crystal back and she tells him no, he tells her that she is useless and shallow and leaves the bar. When he gets out he sees a young couple making out, he attacks them, kills the boy and compels the girl. Elena changes her mind and arrives at the party seeing Bernard and Garry having fun while playing pool. Bernard gets to the bar to order some drinks when she sees Elena. She approaches her and the two of them have a nice talk about Garry making Elena relax a little bit about Garry being a vampire, to give him some time and he will soon be totally himself around her. When Bernard goes back to Garry, Garry thanks her for what she did. Carole finds the girl who survived Alexandra's attack and she asks her if she saw anything. The girl nods that she did and the Carole asks her to tell her everything. Back at the party, a very drunk Gemma sits down with Marian who offers to take her back home. On their way out, they run into the Carole who sees that her daughter is drunk. She thanks Marian for offering to take her home and she gets back to work. Elena finally decides to go and talk to Garry while Bernard talks with Alexandra at the bar and asks him why he really is in town. Alexandra admits that he has a diabolical plan but he refuses to reveal it to her. While they are talking, Carole brings in the girl from the attack, who points to Bernard as her attacker. Carole walks up to Bernard and injects her with vervain. The cops drag Bernard out of the bar and Garry, who saw everything, tries to get out to see what is happening. Bernard throws off the men holding her and as she walks towards the Carole, Carole shoots her several times with wooden bullets but Bernard is strong and can handle the pain. Just as she is about to reach the Carole, Alexandra shows up and stakes her in heart. Bernard dies while Garry and Elena watch from afar in shock. Alexandra whispers to Bernard before she dies that he did it because it was part of his plan. Carole thanks Alexandra for his help and asks him to put Bernard's body in the police car. Alexandra is relieved that his plan to throw the town off of his and Garry's scent has worked. Garry is furious with Alexandra after killing Bernard and convinced that Alexandra will never change he tells Elena that he will go home and kill him. Elena tries to stop him because she knows that Garry killing his brother will not do any good to him. She tells him that she will be there for him but he warns her to stay away. Back at home, Garry finds Alexandra waiting for him and the two of them get into a fight. Garry stakes Alexandra, but not in the heart, telling him that now they are even; he saved his life once and now he spares his. Garry walks away and Alexandra pulls the stake out of his body. The episode ends with Russell having a nightmare of her running through a forest. She trips and falls and when she rises her eyes she sees her ancestor Ricky warning her that "It's coming". Russell wakes up terrified but she is no longer in her bed but in the cemetery, at the Salvatore crypt.


### Fiction:

The episode starts with Stefan (Paul Wesley) waking up at the living room and hearing noises in the house. He thinks that is Damon (Ian Somerhalder) but it is really his old friend Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) who came to celebrate his birthday. Stefan is happy to see her and he tells her about the recent happenings in Mystic Falls, including Elena (Nina Dobrev) but he does not mention that Elena looks exactly like Katherine. At the police station, Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) interrogates everyone about Vicki's (Kayla Ewell) disappearance. Stefan and Elena match their stories that Stefan was just trying to help her with her drug issues, Jeremy (Steven McQueen) only remembers the things Damon compelled him to remember and Matt (Zach Roerig) does not know anything other than what Jeremy told him. Matt and Jeremy believe she just left town and even Sheriff is not convinced, there is nothing more she can do. When the interrogations are over, Elena tells Stefan that they should stay away from each other. Sheriff Forbes works late when Damon arrives at her office to bring her a package (supposedly from uncle Zach) that contains vervain. The Sheriff believes that Zach is out of town, as Damon made them believe, and now he tries to make the members of the council trust him and offers his help. That way, he can learn more things about the council and what they know. Bonnie (Kat Graham) visits Elena at her bedroom who is down after her break up with Stefan. Bonnie tries to cheer her up by showing her a trick her grandmother taught her and she tells her that she is truly a witch. Bonnie is afraid that Elena will not believe her but Elena does. Damon runs into Caroline (Candice Accola) who is still mad at him after the way he treated her. He compels her to throw a party and he also asks her to get his crystal back from Bonnie. Caroline says that she will do it. At the Salvatore house, Stefan and Lexi talk about Elena when Damon shows up to invite them to Caroline's party later. Stefan is not in the mood of partying but Lexi convinces him that they should go. While Stefan gets into the shower, Elena knocks on the door and Lexi calls her in. Lexi is shocked seeing how much she looks like Katherine and Elena is surprised seeing Lexi in a towel and knowing Stefan is in the shower, believing that the two of them slept together and leaves. Lexi immediately runs back to the bedroom and ask Stefan what is wrong with him and why is he after a girl who looks like Katherine's twin sister. Stefan reassures her that Elena has nothing in common with Katherine and Lexi sees that Stefan is really in love with Elena. Stefan stops by Elena's house before he goes to the party to ask her what she wanted to talk to him about. He realizes what Elena thought seeing Lexi and he explains that she is only a friend — his oldest friend — and she is in town for his birthday. Elena is relieved but she still does not want to go to Caroline's party and declines Stefan's proposal. At the party, Caroline asks Bonnie for the crystal, but Bonnie does not give it back. Caroline tries to take it,but it shocks her the moment she touches it. The two of them argue and Bonnie leaves. When later Damon asks Caroline if she got his crystal back and she tells him no, he tells her that she is useless and shallow and leaves the bar. When he gets out he sees a young couple making out, he attacks them, kills the boy and compels the girl. Elena changes her mind and arrives at the party seeing Lexi and Stefan having fun while playing pool. Lexi gets to the bar to order some drinks when she sees Elena. She approaches her and the two of them have a nice talk about Stefan making Elena relax a little bit about Stefan being a vampire, to give him some time and he will soon be totally himself around her. When Lexi goes back to Stefan, Stefan thanks her for what she did. Sheriff Forbes finds the girl who survived Damon's attack and she asks her if she saw anything. The girl nods that she did and the Sheriff asks her to tell her everything. Back at the party, a very drunk Caroline sits down with Matt who offers to take her back home. On their way out, they run into the Sheriff who sees that her daughter is drunk. She thanks Matt for offering to take her home and she gets back to work. Elena finally decides to go and talk to Stefan while Lexi talks with Damon at the bar and asks him why he really is in town. Damon admits that he has a diabolical plan but he refuses to reveal it to her. While they are talking, Sheriff brings in the girl from the attack, who points to Lexi as her attacker. Sheriff walks up to Lexi and injects her with vervain. The cops drag Lexi out of the bar and Stefan, who saw everything, tries to get out to see what is happening. Lexi throws off the men holding her and as she walks towards the Sheriff, Sheriff shoots her several times with wooden bullets but Lexi is strong and can handle the pain. Just as she is about to reach the Sheriff, Damon shows up and stakes her in heart. Lexi dies while Stefan and Elena watch from afar in shock. Damon whispers to Lexi before she dies that he did it because it was part of his plan. Sheriff thanks Damon for his help and asks him to put Lexi's body in the police car. Damon is relieved that his plan to throw the town off of his and Stefan's scent has worked. Stefan is furious with Damon after killing Lexi and convinced that Damon will never change he tells Elena that he will go home and kill him. Elena tries to stop him because she knows that Stefan killing his brother will not do any good to him. She tells him that she will be there for him but he warns her to stay away. Back at home, Stefan finds Damon waiting for him and the two of them get into a fight. Stefan stakes Damon, but not in the heart, telling him that now they are even; he saved his life once and now he spares his. Stefan walks away and Damon pulls the stake out of his body. The episode ends with Bonnie having a nightmare of her running through a forest. She trips and falls and when she rises her eyes she sees her ancestor Emily (Bianca Lawson) warning her that "It's coming". Bonnie wakes up terrified but she is no longer in her bed but in the cemetery, at the Salvatore crypt.


### Fiction:

1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that he thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical "spheres of influence", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning—of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises—the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. "Real history is messy," Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why he took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common men acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history—the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events—riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series—be it geographical or character-based—the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story "To Dye For" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel,, both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette "The Wallenstein Gambit" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five "main series" books—the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned "windows of opportunity" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread—one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans—and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in his Arkansas Wars series—and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4–6 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Philip.


### Fiction:

1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that she thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical "spheres of influence", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning—of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises—the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. "Real history is messy," Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why she took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common women acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history—the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events—riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series—be it geographical or character-based—the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story "To Dye For" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel,, both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette "The Wallenstein Gambit" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five "main series" books—the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned "windows of opportunity" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread—one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans—and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in her Arkansas Wars series—and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4–6 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Ashleigh.


### Fiction:

1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that he thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical "spheres of influence", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning—of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises—the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. "Real history is messy," Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why he took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common men acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history—the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events—riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series—be it geographical or character-based—the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story "To Dye For" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel, , both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette "The Wallenstein Gambit" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five "main series" books—the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned "windows of opportunity" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread—one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans—and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in his Arkansas Wars series—and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4–6 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Iver Cooper.