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Will You Be Made Whole
by Eric Ayala
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Length:
102,181
Genre:
Inspirational
Action-Adventure
Series:
Alabaster Box... Two Women One Struggle (and)
...if i should die before i wake
Sentence:
Two teenaged runaways go to war in the ghettos of Chicago to escape a
drug dealing sociopath, even if they have to kill him to do it!
Blurb:
Two teenagers from two very different backgrounds get caught up in a
cesspool of drugs, prostitution, and murder while fighting to survive in a
world over which they have no control. Their battle to break free
will eventually cost them everything!
Synopsis:
After suffering years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his
step-father, 13-year-old African American, KEITH COLEMAN shoots and kills
him because he has murdered his mother. He then panics and flees
from Atlanta to Chicago on a Greyhound bus. He is attacked, robbed,
and beaten unconscious by gang members in the bus terminal bathroom. DRAKE
SOMMERSBEE, an alleged Good Samaritan, finds him there and claims him as
his son when the police and ambulance arrive. Seeing the televised
news reports of the murders in Atlanta, Drake questions the sanity of his
emotional decision, but keeps up the charade when Keith pleads for his
help. Fearing discovery, Drake takes him out of the hospital and
brings him to his penthouse on Lake Shore Drive. Scared and
confused, Keith agrees never to try to contact anyone from his past as
long as he is “protected.” He changes his appearance and his name to
K.C. While getting used to his new identity, K.C. discovers that
Drake operates a male escort service. He is at first repulsed by
what he finds, but eventually gets caught up in the fast paced world of
parties, sex, drugs, and “pretty boys.”
KATY JENNINGS, a headstrong blonde suburban teenager from Youngstown,
Ohio, is traumatized when her fraternal twin brother commits suicide after
their attorney father KYLE shuns him because he is gay. Her neurotic
mother, KATHERINE, becomes completely unhinged because her son overdosed
on sedatives he found in her medicine cabinet. Because of the
tragedy, Katy is anxious to get out of the house and go off to college at
her father’s alma mater, Northwestern University. Once there, with
fashion and makeup tips from her dorm-mates, she discovers a very
attractive young woman under her tee-shirt and jeans. Fake IDs gain
them entry into a happening Chicago night-spot where Katy’s adult look
does not go unnoticed by an attractive and well-dressed man who introduces
himself to the trio of girls as SUGAR MAN. Katy is instantly drawn
to the seductive stranger despite the warnings of her friends, and her
attraction turns sexual.
K.C. and Katy cross paths for the first time when Sugar Man goes to
Drake’s penthouse to transact business. (K.C. is now twenty.)
The two become fast friends. Sugar Man is in a similar business to
Drake's, and K.C. assumes that Katy is one of his “girls.” Helping
her to further alter her persona, Sugar Man calls her Kat. COOKIE
SPENCER, who was Sugar Man’s main squeeze before Katy, despises the fact
that she replaced her in his life and his bed.
K.C.’s life takes another unexpected turn when he discovers that Drake has
Aids. Katy’s world unravels as well when her mother commits suicide
and her father finds out that she is sleeping with a black man. Her
father threatens to cut her off financially unless she breaks it off with
him and returns to Ohio. Katy defies him, and he makes good on his
threat just as she finds out that Sugar Man is a drug dealing pimp.
Further complicating things, she’s pregnant. Sugar Man sets her up
to be blackmailed in order to keep her under his thumb. He drugs her and
video tapes her in a lewd sex act with several men. She loses the
baby.
K.C. is destroyed after Drake succumbs to the virus and dies, forcing him
out onto the street. Cookie takes him in. Without the
trappings of the penthouse, he begins turning tricks on the street.
Facing academic suspicion, Katy is eventually forced to do Sugar Man’s
bidding and leaves school rather than face her father’s wrath. She
and K.C. decide to get an apartment together as they devise a way to deal
with Sugar Man.
Several colorful characters are weaved in and out of the story, but none
quite as ubiquitous as the homeless OLD BEN who has continually warned
both of them away from certain disaster through his fervent scriptural
rantings. After coming close to being raped on the street, and
nearly being strangled to death by Sugar Man, Katy begins to find comfort
in Old Ben’s words. To her detriment, when she tries to run, Sugar
Man guns her down along with a 10-year old drug mule and makes it look
like a gang related shooting. Everyone in the neighborhood is afraid to
speak out. However, K.C. overhears that a witness spied Sugar Man
fighting with Katy before the shooting and a few minutes later several
shots rang out. She saw his car barreling away from the scene.
K.C. steals a gun and goes to confront him. When he attempts to
shoot him in front of Cookie and Old Ben, the gun misfires and Sugar Man
bests him; they fight and K.C. is knocked unconscious. When he comes to,
he admits to a crazed and bloodied Sugar Man that he tested positive for
Aids. He scoffs at Old Ben raging that a God who could allow such
things to happen could never love him.
K.C. visits Katy in the hospital where she has made a tentative
reconciliation with her father. She begs K.C. to come back to Ohio
with them. He declines and tells her that he is going to die.
A witness finally steps forward and fingers Sugar Man as the shooter.
Sugar Man is arrested but escapes. He makes his way to Cookie and
tries to force her to run away with him – she is disillusioned and rejects
him. A struggle ensues; she pulls a gun and kills him.
After recuperating in Ohio, Katy returns to Chicago to find that K.C.’s
health has deteriorated and he has moved into a hospice. She
volunteers to help care for him. She tells him how she came to know
what the real love of God feels like and what He has come to mean to her.
She wants him to know the freedom that she has experienced. He
tearfully accepts salvation on his death bed.
With Cookie’s help, Katy plans K.C.’s memorial. The two women form
an uneasy bond as they lament both K.C. and how they allowed themselves to
be manipulated by Sugar Man. They agree to support each other as
they strive to leave prostitution behind them and start anew. Cookie
goes back to St. Louis (where she first met Sugar Man) and Katy decides to
move to Atlanta in the hope not only of starting over, but also of
discovering more about K.C.
Bio:
Eric Ayala has a background in stage and musical theatre in productions
such as The Music Man, Showboat, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Porgy and Bess, Pacific Overtures, and Dream Girls.
He has also appeared in operas such as IL TROVATORE and LUCIA DI
LAMMAMOOR. His writing and directing credits include Will You
Be Made Whole, Restoration, and The Women. He has also
authored manuscripts for Alabaster Box...Two Women One Struggle,
and ...if i should die before I wake. Additionally, Ayala
writes adult fiction under the pseudonym Erica Lewis.
Endorsements:
Reviews have been written by Grady Harp author or War Songs, Pasadena,
CA, and James Roberts, host of Positive Living radio in Philadelphia, PA.
Film:
Its urban setting and characters fit well into the hip-hop generation.
The story is provocative and gritty. The characters cross gender and
culture lines and weave together a tapestry of overall hope.
Additional:
Will You Be Made Whole was done as a stage play in Atlanta, GA., and
played to sold out houses in 1998, 1999, and 2000. It will debut on
stage in Indianapolis, IN., in August 2006.
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