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(Overflow-yes, there was only going to be one zine....)

IN THE DESERT I LEARNED OF HEAT - Natasha Solten

He was walking in an inferno, one foot after the other. The floor of the desert burned through his sandals. Heat crawled beneath his robe, threatening to melt his skin. He looked up through blurred eyes at a red sky, his breath catching in a strangled moan. "Jim." He felt drops of water splash his cheeks

SETTLIN' IN - A.T. Bush

"I am going to learn how to be both Vulcan and Human, for that is what I am. I can only be Spock."

Kirk swallowed hard, and felt his eyes overflow. It was what he had always wanted for Spock. "Ah shit!" Kirk leaned down, cradling the slick head in his arms "I've always wanted to hear you say that. I love you, Spock I love you you skinny little shithead Vulcan."

"I am somewhat fond of you, also," Spock said finally.

REMEMBER ME - Chris Waken

James Kirk's body was slowly, methodically humping the warm, welcoming flesh beneath

him but as his mind suddenly skittered away, his instincts carried him on to climax. He stroked the contented sighing body and searched his mind frantically. There was a gaping area, a hole where his first officer and friend had resided. It was as if he were pulled through a vacuum crack in space. Spock had gone.

SEARCH THE SOLAR WINDS - Pam Smith

"You miserable rotten tease!"

"Tease? I am afraid that I am unfamiliar with that term." Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise looked so indignant that his captain and friend, James Kirk burst out laughing as the two men faded into the cloud-like transporter beam, headed for the lush planet below. They materialized with the happy sound of Kirk's infectious giggle surrounding them and did not see the

green warmth of Freitha that they expected, but an unfamiliar transported room. It was not a Federation ship. A deep-throated chuckle pierced the small room

AND THE SAILOR HOME FROM THE SEA - Tere Ann Roderick

Spock intoned, "You wished to speak with me? I also have need to discuss recent events with the Melkotians and the meld." Kirk was unnerved by Spock's lack of animation. He found his mouth drying up and with it, his mind. He was still fumbling for the right words when Spock continued his speech. "Captain, I regret any discomfort I may have caused, but I found no other alternative to the situation. I am aware that the imposition of my thoughts upon another being is shameful, even criminal on my world, yet, if I had not done so, you would be dead." That I could not allow. "The fact remains that I did 'take control' of your minds and now you are all suffering because of it. You, the doctor, Mr. Scott. I "

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