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~ "YOU NO LONGER EXIST" ~
The Fruits of Summerhays
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Summerhays lived and created from "off the grid" in every imaginable sense. Summerhays authored at least 2 complete romance novels, a number of short stories, and several half-finished manuscripts before his tragic death in 1999. Our Summerhays archive preserves the few remaining texts for future generations. We scanned the legible pages, but many were nearly consumed by virulent black mold. These toxic fragments were painstakingly transcribed and reproduced here exactly as Summerhays wrote them. The answers are in the paperwork- but so are the questions! We will not hear from him again. |
"A MASTER TOUCH"
"THEY MADE LO"
 Yvette Jorgansson is shocked and devistated
to learn she is almost three months pregnant.
When she collapses in tears into a bus stop
bench Sadie Thomas, a retired nurse who
is now a volunteer with the Women's Resource
Center, befriends her and takes her home
to console her.
Sadie slowly draws Yvette's story out. Her husband died suddenly of
a heart attack just over two months ago
and Yvette has been struggling to hold the
rehabilitation program he started going:
teaching theater arts to the mentally handicapped.
Sadie sends her off feeling better - almost
hopeful - but she finds her charges in pandemonium.
Victoria, her graduate student aide, lost
control of them.
After Yvette restores order,
Victoria tells her there's someone to see
her. It's Reston Harper, Executive Director
for the Katherine Van de Meitter Foundation,
the project's major funding source and owner
of the building they use. He tells her the
board of directors voted to sever their
relationship with the project because of
Yvette's lack of education. Her will collapses.
She disolves into tears.
Reston consoles
her, telling her he is impressed with how
quickly she restored order so he will see
if he can convince the board to change their
minds. She has to get ready for that evening's performance, which comes off flawlessly,
warming the hearts of the small audience
that came to watch them. Reston is enthusiastic
and invites Yvette to dinner to talk about
how he can help.
At dinner he spouts plans
and ideas. Yvette tells him her next goal
is to get professional performers to work
with her company. If she can get the singing
star Mel Tilson, who is coming to town in
two months to perform at the music circus,
to make a guest appearance with her company,
she is sure other entertainers will be more
willing to appear when they come to town.
Reston offers to take her to San Francisco,
where Tilson is performing, to see if they
can convince him to appear. He promises
to make all the arrangements so they can
spend the night.
Tilson's supper club performance
doesn't give them any opportunity to meet
him so they rush to the stage door and try
to bribe their way in when that fails they
disconsolately go back to the restaurant
for dinner. A section of the dance floor
has been roped off. Tilson brings a date
in and starts to dance. Yvette hops the
barrier, cuts in and gets Tilson to agree
to come to Sacramento to see their show.
Reston booked the Imperial Suite - for both
of them. Yvette almost succumbs to his elegant
seduction but finally banishes him to the
couch and spends a restless night wondering
why she did did and feeling guilty that
she almost didn't.
Reston drops by midweek
to say the board agreed Yvette could stay
in the building and keep her funding for
a three month trial. Following a nightcap
in his room, Yvette gives in. At the last
minute she backs out sobbing (and disgusted
with herself that she is) but refuses to
tell him what's wrong (in part because she
doesn't understand herself). She seeks Sadie
out the nest day and pours her heart out.
Sadie assures her that lovemaking will not
hurt the baby.
Tilson loves the performance
and agrees to appear. Reston calls to find
out how it went but is distant. Yvette doesn't see him again until the night of Tilson's performance. Fortunately she has been
busy lining up performers and sharpening
the skills of her players, so the lonely
ache has mostly only bothered her at night.
She wants Reston and dresses to conceal
her pregnancy until they are alone together.
At first he is agast her condition and afraid
to touch her. Soon they are both unable
to control themselves. They make passionate
- but very tense - love. Afterwards Yvette
feels like she betrayed her late husband.
Reston phones the next week to tell her
the board will grant her funding to hire
an assistant and he is sending an [...]
named Monica for her to interview. Yvette
is certain she will hate Monica but finds
her everything she could hope for. And Yvette
does need help. Tilson's performance packed
the house and sparked a rush of other guest
appearances so she is swamped. Still feeling
guilty, she refuses to take Reston's calls.
In the middle of the rush Yvette goes into
very painful labor, and is rushed to the
hospital. She insists that Sadie assist.
Yvette is terrified that something is wrong
when after the delivery, the attendants
busy themselves feverishly with the baby,
refusing to show it to her, and she is rushed
from the room. Her doctor came in to tell
her they did everything they could but lost
the baby. He leaves her alone with her grief.
The doctor doesn't even tell her what she
had.
Yvette feels betrayed that Sadie hasn't come to be with her. Sadie enters, wheeling
an incubator. After the doctor gave up she
applied her old fashioned methods to Yvette's son and he sputtered back to life. The
doctor is too embarassed to show his face
(Note this is taken from an actual case
history). Sadie has arranged to take Yvette
and the baby home so they can care for
it together.
Reston brings gifts for Yvette
and the baby. She shows him a newspaper
clipping she picked up at the hospital announcing
that he is replacing his father as President
of VDM Industries. He confesses that he
is Katharine Van de Meitter's grandson and
heir to the family fortune. He never actually
lied to her about the board votes, but he
manipulated the board to give him an opening
because he fell in love with her the first
time he met her - even before her husband
died. She feels betrayed and asks him to
leave.
Yvette cries on Sadie's shoulder
after he leaves. Sadie tells her he'll come
back but she insists she won't see him if
he does. After being refused several times
he insists he will camp on her doorstep
until she at least sees him. She lets him
stay out until midnight before inviting
him in. After a stormy confrontation they
agree to marry.
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"SHIPWRECKED DESIRE"
| "Wow, this amsement park is everything you said it was and more," Brad chortled to his cousin Geoffrey. "It's neato!" Geoff, cleaning the last remains of a chocolate bar off his fingers watched Brad score 10,000 points on the undersea warriors game. "Wait 'till you you see the Mystereum," Geoff answered. "It's the neatest ride here. Keep going like you're going and you'll get to ride it today. You might even win a free pass." The park was different from any Brad had ever seen. It was all indoors in the old Nat'l Guard Armory. All the rides were in little rooms, behind closed doors. The strangest thing was, in order to ride the rides you had to win at the videogames. Even tho these were some of the hardest [toughest?] and most challenging games Brad had ever played, the rides were worth it. He'd been on 3 already, and boy was it different. Once inside the room, you sat in a padded chair. A plastic hood was slipped over your head. Then the chair started to move. It took Brad places he had never been before. [It was like a movie, but it wasn't a movie.] In the mountain train ride brad actually was on an open railroad car. He felt the wind on his body. He smelled the smoke from the engine. When he got up, walked to the side and looked over, he could see the ground rushing past. He could even just barely catch a glimpse of the wheels rolling [speeding] down the track. When the car broke loose near the top of the hill, rocking backward out of control, all the sensations were so real Brad even thought he would die of fright [let out a screech of fear]. Yet when the ride was over, somehow Brad knew that he had never left the seat. It was the same with the other two rides. On Star Trip Brad could actually feel the spaceship move under his feet as he guided the ship safely thru [on] the near collision course thru the asteroid belt. On the Old West ride the chair actually became a hores [sic][an indian pony]. Brad could actually smell the animal and feel it's persperation [sweat] rising up into his legs. "You only need to win one more game to get your Mystereum ticket," Geoff reminded Brad. Geoff had already won his Mystereum ticket. But, then, Geoff was a |
THE END?
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