Let There Be No Strife
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Let There Be No Strife |
| Author(s): | Billie Phillips |
| Date(s): | 1982 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Starsky & Hutch |
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Let There Be No Strife is a slash Starsky/Hutch story by Billie Phillips.
It was printed in Trace Elements.
Reactions and Reviews
Not so hot are ‘Let There Be No Strife’ and ‘Trapped in Ice.’ [The latter] is an grossing screamer, but too melodramatic to be credible.... ‘Strife’ is terribly jerky in its execution, alternating between paragraphs of love and fury like a light switch flicking on and off so that no consistent characterization of either Starsky or Hutch comes across… It is also not a snap to figure out the point of the story, as our boys fall into and out of situations without any evident planning or knowledge gained. There is no buildup of plot, no climax, and only a desultory, talky denouement. Unfortunate. [1]
The first story in the zine is ‘Let There Be No Strife.’ The plot and treatment thereof is straight forward – Hutch loves Starsky, but cannot bring himself to ‘fess up. Starsky feels the same way which makes their coupling inevitable, but not before we learn of Starsky’s secret trauma – he was molested as a child and freaks out whenever Hutch tries to make love to him. Love does conquer all in the end – nice, but a little too pat. This story contains no surprises. There is nothing here that hasn’t been done before [2] and more creatively… there’s no reason this story couldn’t have been made into something more memorable. It is also a good example of what happens when technical problems as p.o.v. switching and lack of transition, particularly between substantial time lapses, are allowed to stand…. [3]
PoV difficulties aside, this is a fairly nice zine. It’s kind of a sandwich: the beginning story, ‘Let There Be No Strife’ and the end piece of sheer insanity ‘The NewlyGay Game,’ are both very good. [4]