A Touch of Kindred Souls

Zine
Title:	A Touch of Kindred Souls
Publisher:	Crystal Rose Productions
Editor(s):	DeBorah Maureen Eaton
Date(s):	1989, 1991
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Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language:	English
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A Touch of Kindred Souls is a het Beauty and the Beast anthology edited by DeBorah Maureen Eaton.

Issue 1

A Touch of Kindred Souls 1 was published in 1989 and contains 169 pages.

Art Information: cover by author, Star Cook ("concurrently published in Book of Secrets V"), and Rita Terrell.

All of the fiction is by Debora Maureen Eaton.

cover of issue #1

flyer for issue #1

• A Little Piece of Limbo ("Catherine kidnaps Vincent for an idyllic weekend in Connecticut where, finally alone, the two confront the passions that burn deeply within.") (3)
• A Measure of Love ("Vincent rescues Catherine from a brutal kidnapper and finds that he has his hands full walking her down the road to recovery.") (45)
• Gone Fishin' ("Catherine and a very special date do the town one memorable evening.") (88)
• poem (98)
• Sometimes, Silence is Silver ("An alternate ending to "The Best is Silence.") (99)
• poem (139)
• And One to Grow On ("Baby Vincent has a few surprises of his own for Father.") (140)
• A Wish and a Promise ("A week's vacation lets Catherine and Vincent find precious moments alone to explore more than the deep caverns Below.") (143)

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Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1

Collection of short stories including, 'A Little Piece of Limbo' in which Catherine takes Vincent to Connecticut and they make love, but Vincent feels guilty because of an accident which occurs in the tunnels while he is gone. In 'A Measure of Love,' Catherine is brutalized and raped by a criminal, and Vincent rescues her. Both must deal with their reactions to the traumatic events. In 'Sometimes, Silence is Silver,' Vincent sexually assaults Catherine in the caverns during the events at the end of the second season, and Catherine asks Father to withhold that information from Vincent, who doesn't recall the episode.

This anthology contains 6 stories. There's a cute story where Catherine kidnaps Vincent and together they find love in the mountain sunshine. In another, Catherine is kidnapped after she witnesses a murder but before Vincent can reach her, she is raped. Also included is an alternative to "'TLBL' This story tells of the aftermath as Catherine struggles to help Vincent when he realizes that, while lost in his dark side, he attacked Catherine in the cave.

I read the zine A Touch of Kindred Souls and have a couple of questions that might be up for discussion. In one story Catherine is out for a morning job and she is abducted by a brutal, psycho rapist. Vincent is aware that Catherine is in trouble, but because it is daylight and NOT SAFE FOR HIM, he stomps, snaps, and snarls his way through the tunnels waiting for night to come so he can go to get Catherine. During the course of the day Vincent can feel Catherine being beaten and raped,but still does nothing. This is not the Vincent I have come to know. Do any of you think Vincent would wait so many hours, not knowing if Catherine would be alive when he rescued her? Would Vincent find the closest exit from the tunnels to where Catherine was being held? Would Vincent risk his life to get to Catherine at any time of the day, or place?

In the same zine Catherine is again brutally raped. This time it is by Vincent. This happens when Catherine went after Vincent when he was ill and she followed him into the cave. This is something I feel could never happen. I feel the bond between VincentandCatherinecould never truly be severed. I do not think Vincent could hurt Catherine in any way, let alone put her in bed for about 3 weeks, then she needs crutches to walk with, and her body is scarred where he ripped her flesh with his nails. Does anyone else think the way I do, that Catherine is the only person Vincent could never hurt? (Randie—Absolutely! I feel exactly rhe same way. That fact urns shown to us again and again in the series, and I admit that I don't feel comfortable with zine stories that violate that premise. —Barbara)

There are some people who write zines who just do not understand the people they write about. They can interpret things the way they want to see them, it is their right, but ] think these stories are just too far off.

Issue 2

A Touch of Kindred Souls 2 was published in 1991 and contains 147 pages. Art by DeBorah Maureen Eaton, Jill Simonelli (front cover), Shannon Sahlman, J. Ley, Janine Wills. Fiction by DeBorah Maureen Eaton, Adele Sachs Shapiro, Sandra Saidak.

front cover of issue #2, Jill Simonelli

Many vignettes, some stories. Shapiro's 'Burdens' centers on Joe's experiences Below after he's shot in a restaurant. In Saidak's 'I Am Going to Live Here,' Mouse rescues, then falls in love with a girl from the streets, and in her 'Some Notes on Living,' Devin comes home.

• In the Wee Small Hours by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("Many things can happen when both worlds are asleep and dreaming.") (3)
• The Stuff Dreams are Made Of by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("A letter from Tucson brings more than just news for Vincent.") (11)
• Again? by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("Catherine and Vincent thought they'd seen the last of ghostly painter Kristopher Gentian.") (21)
• Rumination by Shakespeare, perhaps a fusion poem (27)
• Burdens by Adele Savhs Shapiro ("An accidental shooting brings Joe Maxwell Below.") (29)
• Tell the Dragon Bide by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("Asequel to Sometimes Silence is Silver (ATKS Volume I).") (47)
• ...And I Am Going to Live Here... by Sandra Saidak ("A teenager with definite ideas comes to live in the tunnels and finds an old diary and more.") (64)
• A Minor Detail by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("Mother Nature has a way of poking her nose in at the darndest times!") (93)
• Prelude by Adele Sachs Shapiro ("Lisa has departed the Tunnel World leaving an adolescent Vincent worse than heartbroken.") (97)
• Some Notes on Living by Sandra Saidak ("Asequel to "...And I Am Going to Live Here...". part of the Tunnel Community.") (117)
• Funny How Things Work Out by DeBorah Maureen Eaton ("Father. Mary and alIelper from Above find that sometimes the corners on triangles are perhaps a little too sharp ...") (137)

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Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2

Most of the stories in this second volume of the series focus on Vincent and Catherine as their relationship moves to a physical plane. Readers should note that in 'Tell the Dragon Bide,' we learn that Vincent did attack and rape Catherine in the cave. Other story lines include Devin and a new Tunnel- dweller learning lessons in responsibility; Father and Mary finally expressing their love for each other; and a recounting of the days following Lisa's departure from the Tunnels and its effect on Vincent.