Black Magician

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Black Magician
Author(s):	Sharon Travis
Date(s):	1994
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Black Magician is a K/S story by Sharon Travis. It has a sequel called Vulcan Aftermath.

It was published in the print zine Scattered Stars #6.

Summary

"A young sailor jumps ship to look for the devil in the forest he has heard tales of."

Reactions and Reviews

"Black Magician" is a very nicely written alternate universe story which takes place in Scotland, (there's a reference to Montgomery's Inn), during the times of the old sailing ships. Or perhaps it is England. Just an additional line or two would have set the scene a bit more concretely, or was that intentionally done to conform to the vague mysterious feel of the piece? Told in the first person from Kirk POV, we see him as he might have been then, a young man in search of adventure who explores his own world but never - the - less dreams of "ships that sail around the stars". He hears vague rumors of a mysterious magician, dressed in black, living alone in a nearby forest, and feels drawn to investigate. I liked the sense of mystery here created by having the characters never speak to each other until the very end of the story. The well - drawn sex scene, taking place as it does amongst the towering trees and at night is darkly powerful.