Heartscapes
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| Title: | Heartscapes |
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| Editor(s): | Gloria Jones |
| Date(s): | 1995-1997 |
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| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Heartscapes is a het Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology of poetry and fiction edited by Gloria Jones.
Issue 1
Heartscapes 1 was published in July 1995 and contains 40 pages.
It has occasional art by Jackie Kapke.
From "Everything I Do":
Tonight you shared with me a filmed version of the tale of Robin Hood. And I was caught quite by surprise by the seemingly unrelated song that followed the film as accompaniment to the names of all those who had contributed to its making. In that song, a lover declares that everything he does, he does for his beloved. And that seemed true and right and in consonance with my experience. Among the things the lover declared he would do is "Die for you." And at first, that also seemed to me natural, unremarkable, fitting and right for a lover to believe. As I believed. As I would have done, instantly and without question or regret, for Catherine.[...]
And tonight I reflected how, although I was entirely willing to die for Catherine, what I did was kill for her. Over and over and over. I grew, not merely numbed and inured to the prospect. I grew to enjoy it. And to enjoy it even in the doing, in the fact of it. I would not have been so shamed in the aftermath were it not for the unavoidable awareness of how sweet it had been to give this gift to Catherine. To release the deepest part of me, which is violent and knows no limits, in Catherine's presence and on her behalf. She never understood either the sweetness or the shame. But I did.
[...]
For in my deepest heart, I believe in life, not death. And you are, Diana, what you have always been to me from that first moment at Catherine's grave -- life, and more life, and abundant joy. But if I tell this to you at all, it will only be my conclusions, not the process by which I arrived at them.
I am not so foolish as to believe I am done with death. But I have finally cast it out of my longings. I will grieve when I must. I will kill when I must. But I will never again infuse the act with my passion or imagine that it is love.
Forgive me, Catherine.
- When Tomorrow Comes, fiction by Gloria Jones (S3: "Vincent dreams of a gas leak in the tunnels and an explosion kills everyone.")
- A Novice Angel, poem by Russel Jefferis
- A Woman in My Dreams, poem by Russel Jefferis
- To Devin, poem by Jacinth
- Heart's Desire, poem by Rhonda Collins
- Vincent's Reflections, poem by Gloria Jones
- Birds and the Bees, fiction by Jackie Kapke ("Little Luke and his friends ask Vincent to explain where babies come from.")
- Divine Me, poem by Yuri Ivanov
- Diana's Surprise, poem by Gloria Jones
- On Hearing Those First Whispered Words, poem by Jacinth
- Everything I Do, fiction by Nan Dibble (S3: "Vincent's journal entry after watching Kevin Costner's Robin Hood with Diana.")
- Take My Hand, poem by Rhonda Collins
- Separation, poem by Linda Kenyon
- Epitaph for Love, poem by Russel Jefferis
- If Nobody Cared, poem by Linda Kenyon
- Wind Song, poem by Russel Jefferis
- What is Love?, poem by Linda Kenyon
- Better to Have Loved and Lost, poem by Linda Kenyon
- One Way Love, poem by Russel Jefferis
- Thinking of You, poem by Russel Jefferis
- Moroseness, poem by Michael Winchester
- Euphonious Epilogue, poem by Russel Jefferis
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
This very slight but pleasant all-season anthology zine is mostly poetry, with a few short stories. Contributors are from places as varied as England and Russia. Jones contributes "When Tomorrow Comes," in which, in the aftermath of an explosion, Vincent finds that his life has changed beyond all recognition...and yet hardly changed at all, since love is still there for him, with Diana. The ending provides a surprising twist. In Classic "Birds and Bees," Jackie Kapke sets Vincent the uncomfortable chore of explaining, to a group of tunnel children, where babies come from. Nan Dibble's fourth-season-based "Everything I Do" has Vincent musing, in his journal, on the distinction between being willing to die to protect one's beloved...and killing for her in the name of love.[1]
Issue 2
Heartscapes 2 was published in July 1997 and contains 50 pages.
From the author's afterword:
The production of "Heartscapes II" was a hard-won battle. In fact, you might even say it was almost the zine that wasn't. Oh - I had plenty of good material It was mostly computer problems, some of which still haven't been resolved. But where there's a will. there's a way. I had plenty of help from the computer experts, but this doggone machine refused to cooperate. I wanted to include color graphics and other features that would have made the issue rather unique. Oh well, ] guess the important thing is the content, and I was pleased to introduce these fine authors, artist and poets.
It has occasional art by Jackie Kapke.
- And That Should Be, fiction by Amber James (1)
- Untitled, poem by Amber James (3)
- Friends, poem by Julia Lidgard (6)
- Out of the Darkness, fiction by Janice Keenan (7)
- On Marriage, poem by Kahlil Gabran (14)
- The Room, poem by Janice Keenan (15)
- Mirrors, fiction by Jane Madell (aka Jacinth) (16)
- Maiden of Light, poem by Jared Bentley (21)
- Prayer of Tunnels, poem by Sharon Lowy (22)
- Embrace, poem by Janice Keenan (23)
- The Rescue, fiction by Jacquelyn Kapke (25)
- Speechless, poem by Janice Keenan (36)
- Home, poem by Kathy Battershell (37)
- Below, poem by Kathy Battershell (37)
- Traveler, poem by Janice Keenan (38)
- Above... and Beyond, fiction by Gloria Jones (39)
- Our Goals, poem by Julia Lidgard (48)
- Two, poem by Yuri Ivanov (48)
- Secret, poem by Janice Keenan (49)
- Shadow Lands, poem by Janice Keenan (49)
- From the Editor (51)
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Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2
Many people contributed to this small all-season zine. Amber James’ brief tale “And that Should Be” tells of a future post-disaster world where the survivors have endured because of their special blood type...very special. “Out of the Darkness” by Janice Keenan is an account of Vincent and Catherine’s love and marriage. Jacquelyn Kapke’s “The Rescue” is a witty, lighthearted story of Vincent and Catherine’s plot to ease the fears of tunnel tyke Marie, who’s terrified of Vincent. In “Mirrors,” Jane Madell spins a tale of a gift from Kristopher to Vincent and Catherine: a magic mirror that shows you, not how you look, but how others see you. And in Gloria Jones’ “Above—and Beyond,” Vincent, while wearing a latex mask, is nearly arrested for shoplifting in a mall he’s ventured into to buy lacy undies for Diana in a Victoria’s Secret. And if you believe that, I have this lovely tract of swampland....[2]