Eventful Summer

The last couple of days, I've been reading two Helen stories that were left out of the Helen list of stories: Helen vs. Handel's Messiah, and Helen's Eventful Summer.  There is a simple reason. 

When I started writing the Helen story—it was essentially one long story, to which I added a little each day—it was for my own amusement.  Sometimes I pretended that Helen was me, and other times I pretended that I was in love with Helen!  Anyhow, there were little interesting episodes, which generally didn't lead anywhere; they just added to the Helen unbelievable story.  Then came the idea to have Helen make a movie!  She had to be in disguise, and that was the birth of the Sharon Veuhl episodes.  Once those were done, the succeeding stories were essentially follow-up of the events set in motion by the Sharon movies.

When I was prodded into the fatal mindset of publishing some—or all—of the Helen stories on Smashwords, I had to take a critical look at the Helen file, with a view to publishability, and I was a serious college professor at this time, and I had to brutally trim the material.  Consequently, 'vs. Messiah', and 'Eventful' didn't make the cut. 

Not that they weren't interesting; they were chock full of interesting stuff.  But they didn't support the main romance of the whole thing.  So, I did publish them, on Smashwords, but I never mentioned them.  I'm beginning to notice that it's the stories I mention here, in the blog, that people run out and download!  You're busted!!

I've already talked about the first story.  Eventful is sort of an omnibus that contains a number of stories from that time, and it rotates from one thread to another.

There's the account of how Thomasina, Helen's half-sister, makes a porn video.  Also, how Helen meets Melanie and Jana.  (If you have a high opinion of Helen, this book is going to embarrass you.)  There's also a lot of the story of how Crystal gets Janet, which I think is a lovely story, and I can't think how I invented it.  Oo, and also the story of Elly and Morgan. 

Well, anyway ... I'm running out of informative stuff about this book; I'll keep reading, and if I discover anything you ought to be told, I'll rush back and supplement this post.  (Prolly won't happen.)

Kay