Fantasies (Professionals story)
| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Fantasies |
| Author(s): | Fanny Adams |
| Date(s): | 1980s |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
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Fantasies is a 5-page Professionals circuit story by Fanny Adams. It has a sequel called Realities.
Summaries
"Bodie and Doyle have been held captive for over a month and Bodie's lost hope. In an attempt to bring Bodie back to him, Doyle tells him what he's going to do to him when they get home."[1]
"B&D have been prisoners, waiting to be hanged like another prisoner before them, and they dont know if C is still looking for them. B is getting semi-catatonic, while D is comparatively better, and asks him about his deepest darkest fantasy, confessing he, D, would like to tie B up. B eventually confesses he would like for D to say he loves him and mean it. D swears he does, so does B, and they make love. They wake up the following morning and someone is coming to take them out of the cell -- to hang, or be freed? "[2]
Author's Comments
In 1988, the author said: "The best [story I've ever written]; well, I suppose I'd have to say I think "Fantasies" ranks right up there as one of my best. It's tight, complete, relies on very little background to make it a good story. In fact, I felt that it could and should stand on its own, but I was threatened with grievous bodily harm if I didn't do a sequel and so "Realities" was born; a story which doesn't come close to the original I'm sorry to say.[3]
Reactions and Reviews
As I've told her many times, this is the best thing Fanny Adams has written. A perfect story, not a word out of place. As a critic I cheered; as a reader I wanted to bash Fanny's head in until she wrote the sequel...which was good, though not as good as FANTASIES.[4]
Bodie and Doyle have been imprisoned in a cell for over a month, their cell-mate having been hanged. But no explanation is given of where they are or why. Being lovers, Doyle describes a sexual fantasy to Bodie to take their minds off of their possible death. Despite their unkept (to say the least) condition they make love, Bodie admitting his longtime love of Doyle, and wishing silently that Ray would reciprocated. Guessing Bodie's desire, Ray states his love. The cell door opens, and you are left wondering -- is it death or is it freedom?
[comments on Realities]
In "Fantasies," I would have liked to have known the exact situation they were in. In "Realities" I found Doyle's dithering and inability to speak of his love annoying, and the reversal of that inability was too sudden and for no real reason.
An OK read, but nothing great. [5]
References
- ^ Pros Circuit Stories summary by Dagger.
- ^ Pros Circuit Stories summary by Dagger.
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #16
- ^ In The Hatstand Express #6 (1988) from a fan listing what was supposed to be her top 10 Pros stories; the list turned out to be 50 stories long
- ^ from Be Gentle With Us #5 (1992)