The following play scenario is based on a newspaper article relating the events of a fatal motorcycle accident.







An older woman, who has been experiencing chronic pain and doesn't know how she can take any more, is visited one night by the spirit of a high school friend. She doesn't see a ghost of him, but rather feels his presence and is strengthened by it and continues to fight the pain another night. The next morning she recalls that someone, years ago, had said he had been killed in a motorcycle accident. She hadn't known whether it were true or not. After feeling his presence last night she had to know for sure and began researching on the internet. Indeed, she found out he had been killed in a motorcycle accident over ten years ago. She continues to be visited by him over a period of time and is comforted by him as she deals with her physical pain. She knows he is there to help her, but after a while she feels he wants her to do something for her. Not sure what, she continues to research about him, as they hadn't been in touch since just after high school. She finds, through the internet, that he had two young children when he died and that he was estranged or divorced from his wife. She is still not sure what to do with this information and asks him for more specific instructions when she feels his presence. You see her struggle as she wonders if the drugs or pain are just making her nuts or if she indeed is in touch with a spiritual realm that she previously had little awareness of. She begins writing about her encounters with her friend's spirit.

Perhaps by chance, or other forces, she finds out through another old friend that his children have very little financial support. She has been helped tremendously by her friend's spirit. During his visits, and her writing about his visits, her mind and body have had a bit of a reprieve from dealing with pain and she wants to give something back. She then comes up with a plan of how to help. Being a previously published and somewhat successful author, she endeavors to write a novel, loosely based on her experiences with her friend's spirit. She procures a deal with her previous publisher and the book is published.

Just shortly after the book is published, she is visited once again by her friend's spirit. That night is a particularly bad night for her, as she is doubled up in pain, wailing, begging for mercy. She feels his spirit wrap around hers and the tears stop. All is silent. The pain is gone.

The next morning her husband finds her and she has died. Shortly after her death, the husband is notified of how well her novel is selling. He plans a meeting with his wife's dead friend's children and reveals to them her encounters with their father and how he had helped her through a difficult time. He also lets them know she had set up a trust fund for her children to receive half of the profits from her book and for them to receive the other half.

You see his children reading the last lines of her book: "Was it all a dream, an illusion, a hopeful distraction or was it as real as the warm rays of the sun? No matter, we were all blessed."