The Choice (Beauty and the Beast zine by Sally W.)
You may be looking for the Beauty and the Beast zine, Choices.
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| Title: | The Choice |
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| Author(s): | Sally Wright |
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| Date(s): | 1993 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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The Choice is an explicit het 41-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) novel by Sally Wright.
It contains no interior art.
It is "a Classic B & B consummation story following the episode 'The Rest is Silence'."
From the Introduction
For those of us who are diehard Classic B & B fans, the Third Season evokes one of two reactions: denial ("it was a dream, it never happened") or intellectualization ("I'm going to figure out a way to put all this together so it makes sense"). Fortunately or unfortunately, I fall into the latter category. Explaining the events of the Trilogy and Season Three in terms of classic B & B has been nothing less than an obsession for me, taking precedence at one time or another (or many times) over just about everything else. This story portrays the the events of following "The Rest Is Silence"
as I believe they took place. It can be followed by any number of wonderful SND zines like Victoria Monteleone's Renaissance 1, Sue Waugh's When She Comes Home. Pamela Garrett's One Day a Rapture. It also dovetails with my own All That Matters. As someone once said, I don't care if she comes back in Bobby Ewing's shower. Just give me Catherine, reunited with Vincent, and I'll be happy.
Reactions and Reviews
In this story, after V collapses in the Trilogy cave (with some small changes) at the end of "The Rest Is Silence," a spirit offers C the chance to have one glorious night of love, then to bear V's pain in his place, alone, to spare him that suffering. Only if C does so, the spirit declares, will V live.. Steadfastly making that choice, C has a series of consummations with V. There's love as well as sex in this zine, compassion as well as passion; the characters' emotions, as well as their sensations, are perceptively described. Thoroughly adult, in the best sense of the word, though no age statement is apparently requested. [1]