Anniversary Gift

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Anniversary Gift
Author(s):	Kate Singer
Date(s):	1992
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Anniversary Gift is a Kirk/Spock story by Kate Singer.

It was published in the print zine T'hy'la #12.

Summary

"Spock gives Jim a statue of an Aztec fertility god for an anniversary gift, causing unforseen effects in both of them."

Reactions and Reviews

This is a very short story, basically just a sex scene, but it is transformed into something memorably by the excellence of the writing. Spock arrives home on the evening of his and Kirk's anniversary with a gift. He hides it, and then the two of them are consistently lured away from the dinner Kirk has prepared, and any other gift giving, by their sexual desire for each other. In the end. they discover that Spock's present to his bondmate is a statue of an Aztec god that has been influencing their behavior, making their sexual appetite almost insatiable... The words in "Anniversary Gift" are clear and crisp, and at the same time they retain a wonderfully poetic grace: the combination makes the story a satisfying vignette. But I had some real problems with the "Aztec" influence. If the Aztecs or their 'gods' of clay had a direct line to the libido, I think we humans would have discovered it by now. And especially since Spock's sexual behavior turned a little violent in the end, uncomfortably reminiscent of pon farr. I had a hard time believing they both accepted the little statuette so calmly. Seems a lot more likely to me, and logical too, that Spock would take it to a lab, or lock it up somewhere instead of calmly placing it on the nightstand, with the implication that there it would remain. Looks like he and Jim are in for a life of continual rut, and even our sexy guys have to get out of bed and go to work sometimes. There was also a small problem of clarity. I was confused by the reference to "the seven-year cycle" and that in turn led me to wonder exactly what anniversary it was they were celebrating. The yearly anniversary of their bonding, and this just happened to be the seventh one, or were they celebrating seven years since the pon farr and the likely reappearance of the next one? I hate sounding obtuse, but I really couldn't figure it out. A pleasing effort from a very talented writer. I wish it had been much longer.