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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Success Story, by Robert Turner
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+Title: Success Story
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+Author: Robert Turner
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+Release Date: June 11, 2010 [EBook #32782]
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+Language: English
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+SUCCESS STORY
+
+By Robert Turner
+
+Illustrated by KELLY FREAS
+
+    _What is to be will be. Our only refuge lies in that which
+    might not have been._
+
+
+_December 8th, 1952, Two-Thirty A. M._
+
+After awhile the blinding light was like actual physical pressure
+against his tightly squinched eyes. He tried to burrow deeper into the
+protectively warm, cave-like place where he'd been safe from them for
+so long. But he couldn't escape them. Their hands, their big, red,
+hideously smooth hands had him, now. They were tugging and pulling at
+him with a strength impossible to fight. Still he struggled.
+
+He tried to cry out but there was no sound from his constricted
+throat. There were only the frightening noises from outside, louder,
+now. He tried to twist and squirm against the hands dragging him
+toward that harsh, blinding light. He was too small, too weak,
+compared to them. He couldn't fight them off. He felt himself being
+stretched and strained and forced with cruel determination. He didn't
+want to go _out there_. He knew what was waiting for him _out there_.
+He _couldn't_ go. Not _out there_, where....
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When Jeff McKinney was three years old he tipped a pot of scalding
+water from the stove onto himself. He was badly burned and scarred. He
+hovered between life and death for several weeks. Jeff's father was
+out of work at the time and they were living in a cold water tenement.
+Something about the case caught a tabloid's attention and it was
+played up as a human interest sob story. It came to the attention of a
+wealthy man who volunteered to pay for plastic surgery. Then followed,
+long months of that kind of torture, but Jeff McKinney came out of it
+not too badly scarred. Not on the surface, anyhow. But his face had a
+strange hue. There was a frozen, mask-like cast to his features when
+he smiled.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He was eight when he saw his father killed. He was in the taxi the
+older McKinney now drove for a living when the father stepped out of
+the driver's side onto a busy street without looking back first. The
+speeding truck took the car door and Jeff's father with it for half a
+block, wedged between front wheel and fender. Jeff never forgot the
+sound of that, and the screaming. Nor his shock when he suddenly
+realized that the screams were his own.
+
+Jeff was a strange boy. He didn't have an average childhood. The
+poverty was more extreme after his father's death. He stayed home
+alone while his mother was out working at whatever job she could get,
+reading too much and thinking too much. Once, he looked at her with
+haunted eyes and said: "Mother, why is life so bad? Why are people
+even born into a world like this?"
+
+What could she say to a question like that? She said: "Please,
+Jefferson! Please don't talk that way. Life isn't all bad. You'll see.
+Some day, in spite of everything, you'll be somebody and you'll be
+happy. The good times will come."
+
+They did, of course. A few of them. There was the day he went upstate
+on an outing for underprivileged boys and went fishing for the first
+time. He caught a whopping trout and won a prize for it. That was
+nice; that was fun. That was when he was thirteen. That was the year
+the gang of kids caught him on the way home from school and beat him
+unconscious because he never laughed; because they couldn't _make_ him
+laugh. The year before his mother died.
+
+At the orphanage he didn't mingle much with the other boys. He spent
+most of his after-classes hours alone in the school's chemistry lab.
+He liked to tinker with chemicals. They were cold, emotionless, immune
+to joy and sadness, yet they had purpose. He played the cello, too,
+with haunting beauty, but not in the school band, only when he wanted
+to, when nobody was around and he could really feel the music.
+
+Once, on the way home from his cello lesson in the music building, he
+saw some boys playing football on the orphanage athletic field. He was
+suddenly seized with a fierce determination to belong, to grab at some
+of the shouting, laughing happiness these boys seemed to have. He told
+them he wanted to join in and play, too. He didn't understand why they
+laughed so at this idea.
+
+They stopped laughing, though, after the first time he ran with the
+ball, and they all piled up on him and he didn't get up. He lay there,
+looking so ghostly and breathing so harshly and with the trickle of
+blood coming out of his ears. But Jeff didn't know they had stopped
+laughing.
+
+He recovered from that skull fracture, all right. Worse, though, than
+any of the unhappiness he suffered during his life, worse even than
+the shocks of his father's and mother's deaths, was the thing that
+happened to him when he was twenty and working at the laboratories of
+a big drug company.
+
+He met and fell hopelessly in love with a girl named Nina, a girl a
+few years older than he was. They married and for the first few weeks
+Jeff McKinney had happiness he'd never known before. Until he came
+home from work sick, one afternoon and saw Nina with the man from the
+apartment over them. She didn't whine and beg for forgiveness, Nina
+didn't. She stood boldly while the other man laughed and laughed and
+she screamed invective upon Jefferson McKinney, telling him what she
+really thought of him, a gloomy, puny weakling who couldn't even make
+a decent living, telling him that she was through with him.
+
+A blank spot came into Jeff's life right then. When it was over, Nina
+and the other man were on the floor and there was blood on the kitchen
+carving knife in Jeff's hand.
+
+They didn't find him for awhile. He changed his name and appearance
+and hid in the soiled seams and ragged fringes of society. He learned
+the anaesthetic powers of drugs and alcohol. He gave up trying to get
+anything out of this life. Then they finally picked him up, fished him
+from the river into which he'd jumped. There were days of torture
+after that, without the alcohol and drugs his wrecked system craved.
+Right there was the final hell that could have broken him completely.
+But it didn't. It was like the terrible crisis after a long illness.
+Things began to get better, to go to the other extreme after that.
+
+A state psychiatrist brought Jeff's case to the attention of a noted
+criminal lawyer. Neither Nina nor her lover had died from their knife
+wounds. On the plea of the unwritten law, Jeff McKinney got off with a
+suspended sentence. The lawyer and psychiatrist learned of his
+interest and knowledge and talent for chemistry and got him another
+job in the experimental laboratory of a big university.
+
+Later he married a girl named Elaine, who worked at the lab with him.
+They had two children, and lived in a small comfortable cottage just
+off the University campus. For several years, they had all they wanted
+of life--comfort, health, happiness. Jeff thought that life could
+never be more wonderful. All of his former, bitter, cynical views fell
+away from him. Hadn't he, with all odds against him, finally won out
+and acquired peace and contentment and a purpose in life? What was
+wrong with a world in which that could happen?
+
+Then there was the topper. Jefferson McKinney discovered a new drug
+which would cure and eventually eliminate a disease that was one of
+the world's worst killers, the drug for which thousands of scientists
+had been seeking for years.
+
+He was feted and honored, became a national hero. The story of his
+life and his discovery temporarily pushed even the doleful forecasts
+of an early Third War, the Big War, off the front pages. And Jeff was
+humbly proud and grateful that he had paid now the debt he owed to a
+society that could make a final victory, like his, possible.
+
+In a zenith of almost holy happiness, he stood one evening on a
+lecture platform in a huge auditorium in a great city, before
+thousands of worshipping people to make a thank-you speech after being
+awarded a world prize for his great scientific discovery.
+
+But in the middle of his talk he broke off suddenly. A flash of
+blinding brilliance slashed through the windows. Horror painted his
+face. In a whisper, he cried: "No! No! It would make it all so
+senseless!" His eyes looked like the eyes of a man with flaming
+splinters jammed under his fingernails. His face seemed to pucker, and
+grow infantile. Then he screamed: "No! Leave me alone! I _told_ you I
+didn't want to come _out here_, to be one of _you_! Damn you, why did
+you bring me _out here_? For--for _this_?..."
+
+There were the shards of glass from the great auditorium windows,
+floating inward, turning lazily. There were the brick walls crumbling,
+tumbling inward, scattering through the air in the same seeming slow
+motion. The dust cloud and the sound, the flat blast-sound, came after
+that, as the entire building--perhaps the world--disintegrated in the
+eye-searing light....
+
+
+_December 8th, 1952, Two-Thirty A. M._
+
+The flat of a rubber-gloved hand striking flesh made a splatting
+noise. A thin, breathless but concentrated crying followed. The doctor
+looked down at his charity clinic patient, the woman under the bright
+delivery room lights.
+
+"Look at him--fighting like a little demon!" the doctor said. "Seemed
+almost as though he didn't want to come out and join us.... What's the
+matter, son? This is a bright, new, wonderful world to be born
+into.... What are you going to call the boy, Mrs. McKinney?"
+
+The woman under the lights forced a tired smile. "Jeff. Jefferson
+McKinney. That's going to be his name," she whispered proudly.
+
+The baby's terrified squalling subsided into fretful, whimpering
+resignation.
+
+
+--THE END--
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