House of One Thousand Jewels
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | House of One Thousand Jewels |
| Author(s): | Susan Douglass |
| Date(s): | 1990 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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House of One Thousand Jewels is a Kirk/Spock story by Susan Douglass.
It was published in the print zine Otherwhere/Otherwhen #1.
Series
Summary
"A/U: About to be bought by the cruel Lord Stonn, the young human pleasure slave pleads with his favorite customer, the Lord Spock, to buy him instead."
Reactions and Reviews
1990
I liked the intensity of this. A lot of emotion without a lot of dialogue. The ending is quite poignant. My one complaint is that I felt a carrot was being dangled before my eyes. This was more like a prologue to something bigger. It takes its point poetically, but I wanted more. [1]
Wow! (This is a 3-Wow story.) I loved it so much. I wish I had written it. I like her style, and hope she writes part 2. Thanks for coming up with it. All the other stories, sine included, paled in comparison; which doesn't do much for my ego. [2]
1997
Told in the first person Kirk (here it’s James), this is an A/U story of James as a love slave in the House Of One Thousand Jewels (a nice fanciful name). Before anyone gets turned off by the old master/slave scenario, this story is told like a myth or a fable and there’s a sequel (“The Northern Star”) that has all the anti-slave message any self-respecting anti-slavery person could want.The story opens as the masterful (in and out of bed) Lord S’pock of Shikahr is making masterful, passionate love to James (the best in the House, of course!). It’s gorgeous, it burns, it makes you thrash on the carpet.
The writing has a neat old-world quality with a mythology of humans almost destroying their own world, so a Vulcan goddess brought them to Vulcan to protect them from themselves. Boy! This is sexy! Lord S’pock takes a peacock feather and teases James with it. Yes, there.
I love that McCoy is “old Leonard, the slave-healer”.
Even though master and slave, S’pock and James love each other and the story ends with sequel in mind. [3]
1993
Only a six page story - A/U, where Kirk is a slave on Vulcan at the "House of 1,000 Jewels", hence, the title. The plot is Spock eventually buying Kirk (James, here) to be with him. The entire story is told in the first person of James, as a 14 year old boy.
Most people think that writing a very short story is easier than writing a lengthy one. It is my understanding that the opposite is true. To be able to write an effective, fully realized short, short story is extremely difficult. Characters must be presented and explained. Plot must be moved forward with few words. Emotions must flow and language must be precise and clear - no rambling monologues here! The author has succeeded beautifully. Packed into 6 pages are the exposition, plot, characters and emotions. Even the sex is powerful and explicit - with just a paragraph or two. [4]
References
- ^ from The LOC Connection #20
- ^ from The LOC Connection #20
- ^ from The K/S Press #21
- ^ from The LOC Connection #50