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ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT - Lyon

He could not suppress a smile at the incongruity of their determined use of formal titles.

"Spock ," he whispered again. " I think I ought to 'warn' you." He hesitated, clearing his throat unnecessarily. "I've never done this. With a man. Before."

The Vulcan was silent, and Kirk watched the sharply carved profile assume an expression of judicial consideration. Finally Spock turned his head to meet the human's concerned, expectant gaze. "I have never done this. Before."

" Oh "

THE BARE TRUTH - Donna Rose Vanderlaan

"I've never seen a Vulcan nude," one of them said. "Maybe they don't even have sex organs. How about it, Kirk?"

"I really don't know," he thoughtfully answered. "I never thought about it, just assumed they were like anyone else never bothered to look it up and, come to think about it, I've never seen our first officer undressed." The subject changed and was forgotten, but the idea had been planted

HIDE AND SEEK - Natasha Solten

My heart jammed my throat. He had hit a nerve: the truth. I should have expected it. Jim always gets straight to the point, and quickly. He detests game-playing when the stakes are high and serious.

I did not want to lie to him, therefore I did not answer

RIDERS ON THE WIND - Ann Carver

"Grandmother! Grandmother!" the young girl cried as she raced into the house. "I have seen a marvelous thing!"

"And what is that, my child?"

"Two men on great white stallions, riding the crest of the hills."

"What is so unusual in that?" the old woman asked, knowing already the answer.

"They wore no clothes "

SETTLED - Marie Surah

Kirk woke gradually and stretched all of his sleep-relaxed muscles, one-by-one. He yawned several times, his mind still numb with drowsiness. Then, he remembered . Kirk chuckled softly, wondering what Spock's reaction had been to waking up in bed with his captain naked as the day they were born

NIGHT ROSE - Jenny Starr

I have to get this down somewhere. Somewhere in words, somewhere on paper where I can see it. I don't know. Just so I can convince myself it really happened, I guess.

So I'm writing it here in my personal log. Not the taped personal log but my own handwritten one. The one Starfleet doesn't know about

POETRY

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June 1986