A Different Dream
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| Title: | A Different Dream |
| Publisher: | Penreddy Publication |
| Editor(s): | Kay Simon |
| Date(s): | 1990-1991 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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A Different Dream is a het Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology.
It was one of the first zines published just as the Third Season Split began. Fans were writing their first fix-its regarding Catherine Chandler.
The authors were not fans of Diana Bennett.
Issue 1
A Different Dream 1 was published in July 1990 and contains 197 pages.
The art is by Phyllis Berwick, Barbara Gudlauski, Shirley Leonard, Judy Ley, Holly Riedel, Chris Schachter and Kay Simon.
From the editorial:
Perhaps the most disconcerting facet for many readers considering a "third-season" fiction fanzine is the tragic loss of Catherine. and the presumption that from there, the romance is gone.
That truly is the challenge for any media writer who wants to write the intense drama of the third season, yet has to compensate for the absent romantic elements.
I say that the elements are not absent. and that Catherine is not gone, for at least a small portion of the filmed third season, Catherine did exist in facto. In the rest, she ostensibly exists in spiritu.
In the 'zines, however, she can exist forever, because we want her to.
So, there.
But how does a lowly writer rise to the challenge? Well, at first, I entitled this "A Different Dream" as an echo of Vincent's words to Catherine in [the episode] "A Happy Life." Then I thought, that wouldn't be the same fable if he found someone else. By the time I began to get letters about how charmed people were by the notion of little Jacob, some of the submissions were already in.
Fortunately, Diana is not everyone's favorite character and there weren't any Vincent and Diana stories yet, so I modified my intent.
But it hasn't meshed together perfectly, so please bear with me, this is not an effort in smooth synchronization. Third season has run the gamut from repelling to exciting viewers/readers, and it is often difficult to write. Sharon Wells has done a fine job in "Shadow Knight," but I wanted "A Different Dream" to be different, and I believe I have succeeded in that.
For those of you uncertain about a so-called "third-season" 'zine. I will briefly describe the stories in this book. Although a couple are sad, there is a great deal of hope springing from our pens, and in our hearts.
The first fiction offering is "Lullaby for Jacob," written by Phyllis Berwick. It is enhanced by Phyllis' wonderful art, and is most one of the most distinctive 'zine pieces I have yet encountered.
Next is "The Strangers," by Diana Smith and Pat Dunn, an extremely unusual BATB story. It makes us whet our appetite for other fantasy media offerings like "Dark Shadows" this fall.
And then I'm sorry, but I just can't let Elliot Burch alone. He's one of my favorite characters, so here's my interpretation of his experiences (oh yes, he has them) set post-yacht explosion.
There's even a ghost story, an Australian submission, included for "Masques" and "Bluebird" aficionados.
Other selections include a lovely, inevitable "resurrection" story, a Jacob-bond story, and a Joe and Jenny story.
In "Scenarios", Catherine is prominently featured in a sequence of "What ifs..." a series of modus operandis for Catherine's possible return. Let's just hope they take third season and salvage what they can before they bring a Catherine back for a movie! Who knows, perhaps they will use one of the fan writers' scenarios...
The tone of the book is outrageously optimistic despite the hells we have to go through to get there. Did the staff writers and producers leave us a challenge? They certainly did. But I hope you will agree with me that the wait and the difficulties involved are worth it.
Before I leave you all, I want to thank JoAnne Grant, Cathy Stanley and Judy Moisey for their unstinting help in 'zine pre- and post- production. Without them, this would not have been finished as soon. I also wish to thank Kay Anderson for multitude of things, but I can't pinpoint just one. It's wonderful to see successful new 'zine writers out there, and there's a whole world to conquer out there so we can ultimately 'touch our faces to the literary sun.'
Please, let us remember 'the spirit,' not 'the season'... I believe Tunnelcon will be a perfect example of that, and hope that singular spirit will last forever.
- Editorial: Catherine Lives! (6)
- A Lullaby for Jacob by Phyllis Berwick (Classic) (A series of portraits of baby Jacob with eight various characters, interspersed with the lyrics to various folk tunes) (9)
- Despair, sonnet by Barbara McIntyre (27)
- The Devouring Time, poem by Kay Simon (28)
- The Strangers by Diana Smith and Pat Dunn, a Nicholas & Varina crossover (reprinted in The Collected Nicholas and Varina) (S3) (29)
- Riding Grief, poem by Margaret Davis (69)
- Begger's Comet Defied... by Kay Simon (71)
- A Desperate Longing, poem by Mari Lynn (85)
- Farewell to Catherine, poem by Sharon McCarthy (87)
- Shattered Roses by Kay Simon (S3) (89)
- Memories and Dreams by Jenny Bozovic (S3) (101)
- Scenarios (vignettes about possibilities for Catherine's return for a fourth season: "A sampling of the myriad possibilities include: 1. Soul Transfer Before/At/After Death 2. Third Season A Dream/Southfork Revisited 3. The Ghost and Mr. Wells 4. Witness Protection") by Kay Simon (SND) (109)
- Tearful Thunder, poem by Kay Simon (120)
- Half-Sick of Shadows by Margaret Davis (S3) (121)
- The Fates Debarred by Kay Simon (features Diana Bennett and Joe Maxwell) (139)
- She's Alive, fiction by Roseann Solnica (157)
- Invictus, poem by William Ernest Henley (not fannish) (197)
from issue #1, Shirley Leonard
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick (Father and Baby Jacob)
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick (Narcissa and Baby Jacob)
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick (Jamie and Baby Jacob)
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick (Eli and Baby Jacob)
from issue #1, the song by the actor who portrayed Eli in the show
from issue #1, Kay Simon?
from issue #1, Kay Simon?, from The Strangers by Diana Smith and Pat Dunn, a Nicholas & Varina story
from issue #1, Chris Schachter (Elliot Burch)
from issue #1, Barbara Gudlauski
from issue #1, Holly Riedel
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick (Diana Bennett)
from issue #1, Holly Riedel
from issue #1, Phyllis Berwick, a take on Pietà
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
This is a series of stories and poems set both during and after the 3rd season. In one story, Vincent encounters a couple who happen to be vampires! While there is one story in which Catherine survives to be reunited with Vincent, she remains dead or appears as a ghost in several others. Diana appears as a friend, as does Elliot, Joe and Jenny.[2]
A third season offering, but Catherine is often present; not a 'revenge' zine, Diana is present as a friend or helper only.[3]
Issue 2
A Different Dream 2 was published in May 1991 and contains 178 pages.
The art is by Phyllis Berwick, Barbara Gudlauski, Shirley Leonard, Judy Ley, Mary Ellen Nicosia and Chris Schachter.
It contains a lot of embedded poetry from mainstream writers such as Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, and John Donne. This poetry is credited in footnotes.
Contains the novelette 'Shadows Like To Thee' by E. Wyllis where a U.S. General with a personal agenda is holding Catherine prisoner. In 'Forever,' Narcissa resurrects Catherine from death to fulfill her destiny. Also includes several 3S stories and poetry.[4]
From the editorial:
As South of Oz, the 1991 National Beauty and the Beast Convention approaches, it should be an exciting juncture for the fandom. There are Beauty and the Beast Conventions planned at the regional level at several places over the course of 1991. Despite worries and predictions to the contrary in 1990, the fandom has not died, but instead is well and living in the trenches, ostensibly readying to do battle if the promised film is not announced soon.
Indeed, there has been speculation that the film is all a rumor, but I feel it is unfortunately like anything else spawned in Hollywood, if it's worth a buck, the film in some incarnation will happen eventually.
The problem is the fandom, which has not exactly been healing from the blows of third season, no -- it has more been reeling from them. I must say that when contemplating a third-season effort, I've received more advice -- both con- and de-structive, than at any other time. It has certainly made me sit up and take notice what is 'acceptable' to the fandom and not. It has also made me re-evaluate just who I am writing for: myself or the fandom?
The following pages hopefully are a composite of these mandates, and note that I've stayed pretty well out of it. Since most of you indicated a preference for "SND's", et voila! Don't discount some lovely poetry, even if there are occasional sad passages. Sometimes we need to be sad to appreciate what we have -- and had.
Don't get me wrong -- nobody wanted Catherine to die, except the writers and producers who took a huge gambling chance,-- and lost. In the wake of the third season, we fan writers have been flailing, but the message is loud and clear: Vive Catherine! (But has Hollywood heard?)
In any event, this will be the last 'Different Dream" and any of my future work will move into the so-called "fourth season", jumping beyond the uncomfortable and traumatic scenarios which left so many with that acute sense of loss...
So enjoy the following pieces and let us remember what drew us in the first place: the magic, and a relationship worth -- living for.
- Editorial (5)
- Beyond the Light, poem by Margaret Davis (6)
- Shadows Like to Thee by E. Wyllis (SND) (7)
- Father's Eulogy, poem by Katrina Relf (99)
- Haikus by Phyliss Amason (101)
- Smile, Please by Jenny Bozovnic (S3) (103)
- Remembering, poem by Linda Jordan (110)
- My Memory Remains, poem by Linda Jordan (111)
- Promises of Someday, poem by Karen Witkowski (113)
- Separations, poem by Karen Witkowski (113)
- Forever by Krys E. Britton (SND) (115)
- Memories, poem by Katrina Relf (171)
- Soft Tears, poem by Katrina Relf (173)
- Perchance to Dream by Karen Witkowski (S3) (175)
- Musings of the Night, poem by Kay Simon (177)
from issue #2, Phyllis Berwick
from issue #2, Mary Ellen Nicosia
from issue #2, Phyllis Berwick
from issue #2, Shirley Leonard
from issue #2, unknown
from issue #2, Chris Schachter
from issue #2, unknown
from issue #2, Phyllis Berwick
from issue #2
from issue #2, sample text
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2
This is the second and, the author states, last volume of the series . Catherine remains dead n the short stories and poems of this zine but is resurrected in the distinctly different storylines of the two novelettes. In one, she survives physically, if not mentally, until Vincent's rescue. In 'Forever,' Narcissa works her own magic to bring Catherine back from the dead. Joe and Elliot appear, as does Diana as a friend.[5]