For Auld Lang Syne
You may be looking for the Professionals zine, Auld Lang Syne.
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| Title: | For Auld Lang Syne |
| Publisher: | The Nut Hatch Collective |
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| Author(s): | Jane |
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| Date(s): | June 1992 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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For Auld Lang Syne is a slash 170-page novel by Jane.
It is novel-length and follows directly after Sea Pictures, which appeared in Cross My Heart #8. It is the last story in the Rainy Days Universe.
From Jane: "There's a mile and a half of story in this novel, which runs 170pp in compressed type. Illustrated with photographs.[1]
See List of Professionals Fanworks by Jane of Australia.
From the Publisher
THE USUAL PLEA TO READERS: we're begging you not to circulate the text of this novel, because if you do, and we don't sell copies, we are in big trouble, folks. We can go broke so easily...so please, help us to help you by not bootlegging this project. You have our thanks!
Summary
Here is an evergreen favorite, the novel-length finale to the Rainy Days serial. Bodie and Doyle did manage their Greek Island cruise to mark their anniversary, but just as they were leaving aboard the Spirit of Jamaica they heard over the radio, the CI5 controller is about to retire. What's more, he will be retired by the time they get home!Now they are home ... and Sir George Cowley is indeed retired from the Department he created so many years before. He and Lady Elizabeth have never been happier, since they have shed the burden of responsibility and stress. But what of CI5?
In place of George Cowley is a "new broom." And few of the veterans who built and shaped the Department are happy. Change is inevitable, but no law says one has to agree with it, nor say and watch. For Bodie and Doyle, it is a time of change and transition. And end, or a beginning? Even they are not sure at first.
The Doyle family have become reconciled to their more wayward members: Ray, who was his uncle's footsteps, and Christine, who have them both her support through thick and thin. Now Ray's older brother, Frank, is in real trouble, and he word "blacksheep" gains a whole new meaning. It's a scene that perhaps should have happened years before: Bodie in the Family Castle, a place long avoided, now unavoidable.
The saying goes that life begins at forty. Bodie can attest to that! Busier than ever, with so much to build, and rebuild, he and Ray stretch their legs in some surprising ways ... and are free to do it! Days are rainy again, as autumn becomes winter; times and events are in a state of flux; the world has changed in the decade and a half since they signed their first CI5 contracts, yet one this never changes. Love is love, no matter the season.
But not all changes are bad. A letter from a certain Institute in Athens is the answer to many problems, Dreams and aspirations may never fall neatly into place, but when things go right — they go right!
Possibly (probably!) The final “Rainy Days” episode, this story is novel length and follows directly from *Sea Pictures*. There is a mile and half of story to tell, and it will fill a whole zine-sized book, in compacted type. Planned as a 170pp, coil bound issue, illustrated with photos, this one will be available in June 1992.