The Perfect Couple
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | The Perfect Couple |
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| Editor(s): | Keri T & Flamingo |
| Date(s): | September 2010 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Starsky and Hutch |
| Language: | English |
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The Perfect Couple is a slash Starsky and Hutch 194-page anthology.
The cover and back cover art is by Suzan Lovett, and the interior art is by TACS and Enednoviel.
The zine premiered at SHareCon.
From the Introduction
The Theme
Welcome to "The Perfect Couple," a Starsky/Hutch romance zine. Long-time SH fan (and top-notch editor!) Barb Diana envisioned the concept for this zine way back in 2006. While traditional romance stories were the norm for decades in this fandom, in recent years modern writers, reacting to the times we live in, had been serving up more varied fare. Barb missed the classic romance stories, and in a discussion with Flamingo, decried the loss of many of our classic writers of that fiction. We're thrilled to bring Barb's concept to life, and we dedicate this zine to her with love, gratitude, and respect.
The Art
Special thanks go to Enednovial [sic] who graciously offered us a treasure trove of art and let us have our way with it. We also want to thank classic SH artist TACS who long ago gave Flamingo blanket permission to use her art. And then there's Suzan -- after Flamingo suggested basing the cover on a stereotypical romance book cover, and after spending days pouring over every romance book we could find, she declared she couldn't work with anything like that. "You want iconic," she said. "I'll give you iconic!" And turning to the masters, she put S&H in the framework of one of the worlds great masterpieces -- Klimt's The Kiss. And the back cover -- oh yeah, that's another of the world's great masterpieces -- classic Suzan! We want to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts.
Contents
- Table of Contents (i)
- Introduction by Kari and Flamingo (ii)
- Going Once, Going Twice by Dana Austin Marsh ("Desire is on the auction block, but is love for sale?") (1)
- Priorities by Kaye Austen Michaels (Starsky proves to Hutch how important he is to him.") (19)
- Love Is Like Oxygen by Dawnwind ("How long can one man burn for another without telling him?" -- "Set after Murder At Sea, Starsky and Hutch arrive back at the canal side cottage only hours before an arsonist lobs a molotov cocktail through the window of Hutch's home.") (23)
- The Kiss, art by TACS (35)
- Icarus Landing by Rosemary C ("The last thing Starsky ever expected to see causes the floodgate of his heart to surge.") (36)
- Affirmation III: In Love, In Life by Kaye Austen Michaels ("In this long awaited sequel, the partners are challenged both at work and home. Never Let Go by Morgan Logan: Starsky doesn't remember everything that happened to him after being kidnapped by Simon Marco's freaks. But what he wants to remember the most is whatever Hutch said to him after his rescue.") (55)
- Lazy Afternoon, art by Enednoviel (157)
- Never Let Go by Morgan Logan (written in 2007) (163)
- Back In The Saddle by Kaye Austen Michaels ("Hutch has a secret, and Starsky is determined to find it out.") (176)
- Still the One, art by Enednoviel (188)
- Inspiration by Verlaine ("Are decades of love enough to outweigh the wounds of family loss and betrayal?") (189)
Sample Interior
"The Kiss" by TACS
"Lazy Afternoon" by Enednoviel
sample text
"Still the One" by Enednoviel
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