A Handful of Sand

Fanfiction
Title:	A Handful of Sand
Author(s):	Alexis Rogers
Date(s):	1981 or before
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Starsky & Hutch
Relationship(s):
External Links:	A Handful of Sand
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A Handful of Sand is a very early Starsky/Hutch story by Alexis Rogers.

from Daily Reports #2, the story's warning

from Daily Reports #2, the first page

It is likely the second single-slash story printed in the fandom. It was also likely a pass-around, underground fic.

This is missing scene from the episode "The Deadly Impostor."

S/H Fanfiction History

The novel, Forever Autumn, was the first S/H zine published. It was issued in the UK in March 1980.

Next, a single slash story was published in February 1981 in the second issue of Ten-Thirteen.

A single slash story, "A Handful of Sand," was printed in September 1981 in Daily Reports #2.

It is commonly understood that the first two strictly S/H zines published in the U.S. were Code 7 in summer 1981, and Trace Elements in March 1982. Which one of these two zines was "first" includes a bit of semantics.

In December 1982, a fan wrote:

This [Trace Elements] was the first American S/H zine to come out from the catacombs, and for that reason alone the editors, [Billie Phillips] and Pam Rose, deserve a commendation. If there has been a lightening of the atmosphere surrounding the sub-fandom of S/H, it is due in large part to their taking the first public step.

These contradictions regarding which was the first zine "published" may be due to the fact that the editors of Code 7 issued an announcement that the Code 7 had been canceled in S and H #22 (June 1981) while secretly publishing the zine without identifying information and distributing it to a select group of people.

Because Code 7 #1 was an underground publication (see Code 7 vs. Trace Elements), some fans consider Trace Elements as the first "published" US S/H zine.

A fan in early 1982 gives a wink to fellow fen regarding "Code 7": "I haven't seen that much S/H to date -- just one excellent zine (that doesn't exist, of course)."

Print Places

• Daily Reports #2 (1981)
• Hanky Panky #7 (1983)
• The Collected Starsky and Hutch Stories of Alexis Rogers (1996)