Different Destinies (Flying Nun zine)

Zine
Title:	Different Destinies
Publisher:	The M Press
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Date(s):	2004 (stories were posted online in 2002)
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	The Flying Nun
Language:	English
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Different Destinies is a gen anthology of fiction by Melody C. Melody also did the cover.

This zine was written in memory of Melody's childhood friend Jeri, who died of brain cancer at the age of 9. They had both watched the Flying Nun together. It had been a cornerstone of their friendship.^{[citation needed]}

Description

From a distributor, Agent With Style:

... Sister Bertrille got along well with the wise and humorous Sister Jacqueline, and with Sister Sixto, the Puerto Rican nun who fought a running battle with the English language. Sister Bertrille was also admired, from a distance, by Carlos Ramirez, the rich, handsome playboy owner of a discotheque in town, who was a patron of the convent. Sister Bertrille's knack for finding trouble was overshadowed by her sincere desire to do good and benefit her poor community. And when she realized that her desire for Carlos was more than just friendly, and that it was returned in full, Sister Bertrille, or Elsie, as she had been known in her previous life, had to make an impossibly hard decision -- should she ignore her heart and take her vows, forever sealing her away from a life outside the convent walls, or should she give up being a nun for the one man she truly loved? Bride of Christ or bride of Carlos?

Author's Note

From the introduction in the zine:

If you think popular opinion makes it tough to write slash or even het erotica, you should try writing the Flying Nun fan fiction sometime. That is when the bon temps really rouler.

While I have for years (since my second slash story) written explicit slash under my own name, I wrote my Flying Nun stories under a pseudonym.

Never mind that I'd written gen and shipper fic long before I had even read a slash story. And never mind the fact that I had always written gen fic, shipper fic, het and slash in any fandom that inspired me to fire up the burners on the Pentium 3 (or the Selectric typewriter, before the dawn of Gates) since I don't see relationships as essentially very different other than in the manner the individuals relate to each other. I love relationships, in whatever form.

But my more sophisticated friends informed me that the Flying Nun was, well, silly. Well, of course, it was silly. Lots of stuff I love is silly. Still and all, is a flying Kansas farm boy inherently more sensible than a flying nun? But TFN had at the heart of it this forbidden, almost organically grown love nearly all the young girls I knew just adored. In fact, the studio had to bow to the wishes of the audience by incorporating Sister Bertrille and Carlos together as much as possible, while obeying the Church's strict Bertrille-and-Carlos rules on how far apart they had to stand...how he could refer to her...what they could say. All in all, given that. I'd have written this fan fic years ago, if I hadn't been terribly afraid that my very cool fannish friends would think me frightfully silly.

So here I stand with the ultimate "outing": My name is Melody and I write Flying Nun fan fiction. If you need a reason to laugh at me, then go for the gusto. But maybe you're like me and you're too old and well traveled to give a flying fig what the ubiquitous "they" think of you anymore.

Disclaimer

This copyright stated to keep fanzine poaching varmints from selling my stories without my consent. Agent with Style, www.agentwithstyle.com, is my agent for my novels/fanzines. Tm to blame entirely for the content of them, however. Copyright In no way meant to infringe upon copyrights held by Screen Gems, E.J. Swackhammer, Sally Field, the estate of the late Alejandro Rey, or any other TFN copyright holder.

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Many thanks to Michael Shorter, current Screen Gems archivist and zealous defender of the Carlos Loves Elsie fan monument built by the faithful (and signed by Sally and Al) many years ago. This one's for you, sluggo.

Contents

• A Different Destiny by Melody C. (taken offline by the author) (1)
• La Tormenta Grande by Elsie Ramirez (online here) (36)
• Mysterious Ways by Elsie Ramirez (online here) (56)

Fan Comments

[La Tormenta Grande]: That was wonderful. I could really feel the characters personalities come through. It ended up just the way I wished the tv series had.Thanks so much for writing . I loved it.

[La Tormenta Grande]:Awwwwwwww... always wished they'd hook up!;)

[La Tormenta Grande]: Woohoo!!! Kool story!!! I loved it!!! They are such a cute couple!!! I guess that I'm not the only one for thinking that there should be a romance between these two!!! Thanks!!! Peace!!!