Love and Guns 13

All The Kings Horses ....1
by Valaria

Getting Back On Solid Ground ....54
by Gloria Ruggeri

Even Darkness Fades ....92
by Gena Fisher
 

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Observations of a Slash Slut:

This 'zine features full color cover and interior art by TACS. I liked the art so much I bought some of the prints at Friscon. Very nice! Of course, it is TACS!

Since there is not yet a description at AMC Press' site for this 'zine, I'll just give the synop from the Table Of Contents, then some additional Slash Slut comments.

All The Kings Men
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Just starting a relationship is hard enough, much less starting one with a member of your own sex. But if that was all, Blair could have easily worked it out with Jim...no it was something else and that something else came from Jim's childhood...and it was THAT that was causing them the biggest problems. This is the first part (but complete in itself) of a longer story.
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warnings/spoilers: Childhood sexual abuse. J/B first-time! This was a very good story, I thought. I enjoy Jim-angst of this type on occasion. However, though the description says the story is "complete in itself" I'll have to say it doesn't have that feel to it. Sure it's complete if you don't want to know about Jim's recovery. I want more, NOW!
I guess we can look forward to more, since the end of the story has this note: This is the first part of a longer story by the author. She is working on the second part now where she will delve further into the childhood abuse that Jim suffered and how he and Blair work through that.

Getting Back On Solid Ground
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Ah, yes...how do you tell a cop that in your own fantasies that he is the sexiest thing on earth...when he's earring his Kevlar...
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Established couple. This is an Dead Drop missing scene. It's what happens when they get home and the adrenaline is wearing off. Jim needs to be reassured that Blair is really alive and more or less well. Primal-Jim! Oh, yeah!
 

UPDATE - 12/04/00

I learned the picture which inspired Gloria's story was, much to Gloria's dismay, inadvertently left out of the 'zine. I have had the opportunity to see the picture and must agree it would have been a lovely addition to the 'zine and particularly this story. The artist is Larrkin, whose work I've seen in other 'zines and have always enjoyed. This sexy piece shows our guys on the couch, Blair straddling Jim, who is still in his Kevlar vest. They are embracing and engaging in a little suck face! I can certainly see where the inspiration to write this story came from! I have heard further editions will contain the missing art, and that any more first run issues sold without the art will have it placed inside (as a loose page, I guess). For all of us who bought the 'zine at Friscon 2000...it's a sad, sad thing... :-(
I re-read this story after I saw the art...did I mention before this is a totally hot story?!? I nearly fainted. Again!


Even Darkness Fades
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Children are missing...disappearing right our of their homes...no sign of struggling. It is as if they simply walked our and disappeared. The cases are weighing heavily on Jim and Blair is trying his best to show Jim that he is there for him. They both realize that they are there for each other but Carolyn shows up to help with the disappearances and then Jim is missing himself...subject to the same set of circumstances that happened to the children. An excellent 'what's happening here' mystery...
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First time. Lot's of angst tempered with some great comfort. Great plot. Nice scary story and creepy happenings.

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