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OUR SEPARATE WAYS - Emily Adams

Spock's mind went back to that first contact, the disturbing, surprising knowledge that another, but not THAT other, was touching his mind.

THE MIRROR CRACKED - Augusta Elton

So long had his eyes stared, unblinking, unbelieving, at the decoded message on the screen that the characters began to waver and dance before him. So used was he to being the spider at the center of his own web, that it shocked him very little.

WHEN LOVERS SAY GOODBYE - Elizabeth Scott

Kirk lazily trailed one finger down the firm mound of smooth, naked buttock. "I'm sure gonna miss this."

Spock turned his head away, burrowing sleepily into the softness of the pillow. "No doubt you will find a suitable substitute."

HALF AND HALF - Sarah B. Leonard

Spock was coming towards him, and just as Kirk was about to ask the meaning of the intrusion, he noticed something. Something rather unusual. Spock had an erection.

ROOM 1442 Charlotte Frost (nominated, Surak Awards)

Spock moved down the corridor of the ISS Enterprise, not trying to deny the anticipation he felt, nor the slight fear that settled in the pit of his stomach. He was about to initiate an action that would begin the most important quest of his life.

REFLECTED REVELATIONS - Kay Wells

"Okay, Jim, you want to run that by me again? I don't think I heard you right."

"You heard me," Kirk shot back. "Spock wants me to 'fix him up.'"

THE SHINING ONE - Janis E. Laine

He comes into this world not by passage from his mother's womb, but with an explosive discharge of ionic energy. Like some mythical deity he springs fully formed and sentient, but woefully unprepared for the reality of his new surroundings. A world not his own. A ship not his own.

A body not entirely his own.

HUNGRY EYES - Roberta Haga

The first thing he noticed was the atmosphere. Hot as Spock's cabin always was, it had never seem oppressive, the way this did. Yet Kirk couldn't say why this room appeared to be darker, closer in some way. He began to feel an odd sense of claustrophobia, something he'd rarely experienced and certainly never with anything having to do with Spock.

SECOND ACTION - Addison Reed (nominated, Surak Awards)

Enterprise was a warship. Beneath the elegant silvery skin which sliced such deceptive grace through the dark heart of the galaxy lay hidden the most sophisticated and potentially devastating weaponry ever devised by the Empire. Ahead of her, a compact, mindless probe sensed the approaching mass and altered its course for her passage, tumbling aside to trace her long curving path as she blazed toward her unsuspecting target.

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November 1988