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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Success Story + +Author: Robert Turner + +Release Date: June 11, 2010 [EBook #32782] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUCCESS STORY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 70%;"> +<img src="images/if1953jan.jpg" width="100%" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p><span class="pagenum">[66]</span></p> +<div class="blockquot"><p><big><i>What is to be will be. Our only refuge<br /> +lies in that which might not have been.</i></big></p></div> + + +<h1>SUCCESS STORY</h1> + +<h2>By Robert Turner</h2> + +<h3>Illustrated by KELLY FREAS</h3> + +<p><b><i>December 8th, 1952, Two-Thirty A. M.</i></b></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>out there</i>. He knew what was waiting for him <i>out there</i>. He <i>couldn't</i> +go. Not <i>out there</i>, where....</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[67]</span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 70%;"> +<img src="images/img002.png" width="100%" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>He was eight when he saw his father killed. He was in the taxi the +<span class="pagenum">[68]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 <i>make</i> him laugh. The year before his mother died.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<span class="pagenum">[69]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[70]</span> +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 <i>told</i> you I didn't +want to come <i>out here</i>, to be one of <i>you</i>! Damn you, why did you +bring me <i>out here</i>? For—for <i>this</i>?..."</p> + +<p>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....</p> + + +<p><b><i>December 8th, 1952, Two-Thirty A. M.</i></b></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>The woman under the lights forced a tired smile. "Jeff. Jefferson +McKinney. That's going to be his name," she whispered proudly.</p> + +<p>The baby's terrified squalling subsided into fretful, whimpering +resignation.</p> + + +<h5>—THE END—</h5> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Success Story, by Robert Turner + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUCCESS STORY *** + +***** This file should be named 32782-h.htm or 32782-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/7/8/32782/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Success Story + +Author: Robert Turner + +Release Date: June 11, 2010 [EBook #32782] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUCCESS STORY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +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-- + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Success Story, by Robert Turner + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUCCESS STORY *** + +***** This file should be named 32782.txt or 32782.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/7/8/32782/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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