A Time to Grow (Starsky and Hutch story)
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | A Time to Grow |
| Author(s): | Theresa Wright |
| Date(s): | 1980 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | gen |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| Relationship(s): | |
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A Time to Grow is a gen Starsky & Hutch story by Theresa Wright.
It was printed in Casa Cabrillo.
Reactions and Reviews
1980
”A Time to Grow” was well done. Congratulations, it’s good to see more of certain characters.[1]
A Time To Grow -- I thought it was a different type of story. It kept my interest all the way through. I could imagine Hutch reacting in the way you wrote it. I really enjoyed it. [2]
While two writer’ and one artist’s work [in Casa Cabrillo] do offer exceptional inside and a touch of class… the other entries range between unremarkable and frankly poor. Less ballyhoo, and vastly less pretentious packaging, should been in order.
Problem areas first: The editor’s own ‘A Time to Grow’ takes as its theme the initiation of Kiko Ramos into responsible manhood… We are never told why a youth of Kiko’s background would want to join a clearly criminal gang, still less how he could be brought to betray a friend in the process This particular lack is at least partly a function of the author’s obvious unfamiliarity with Chicano socialization patterns – she is, alas, equally innocent of Spanish grammar – but the preoccupation with causing S&H the maximum amount of payne and aguuny contributes, too. If Starsky’s original injury is gratuitous, his relapse and return to surgery for unspecified complications is flatly inexcusable. Add to this a stereotypical coward-bully villain, an uncontrolled tendency toward overwriting, and a much-too-easy emotional resolution and you have (A) a tale that requires a stylist's patience and flair for self-mortification of its readers and (B) an extremely cogent argument in support of the wisdom of writing what you know. A pity, this. Properly handled, the idea could have yielded a first-rate story. [3]
1981
[About] ‘Time to Grow’… I can’t say how authentic the street gang scenes are, but they come across like bits of 1930’s gangster films. While the writing is reasonably skillful, somehow Wright’s attention is too often unfocused onto distractedly minor business, such as clocks, IV needles or a great deal of rain…. [4]