Lest These Dark Days (Professionals zine)

Zine
Title:	Lest These Dark Days
Publisher:	Jane Carnall
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Date(s):	1990s
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Medium:	print, zine
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Fandom:	Professionals
Language:	English
External Links:	At the Circuit Archive
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Lest These Dark Days is a slash Professionals anthology. It has the subtitle: "And Other Stories." It is a circuit zine and part of the shared universe The Fox and the Wolf by Jane Carnall and Nicole C. which were published in the 1990s.

Reactions/Reviews

1991

"Lest These Dark Days" by Johnson and Carnall — a Cowley/Bodie story which sort of almost works in this universe except for knowing Cowley would never compromise himself like this despite his gay leanings — not even for Bodie — would he?

1993

I'm a sucker for you B/C pieces. I devoured LEST THESE DARK DAYS and THIS CLASSICAL DILEMMA and the emotional upheaval of THROUGH MY EYES left me so bereft and drained that I didn't read anything for weeks after (not a normal state for any self-respecting fan). In fact, it is the only one of your long B/C stories that I've read only once. You have a special ability to write Cowley and a very different Bodie from what we are used to reading. When you put them in a relationship as in LTDD or TCD, it's utterly believable. Your stories weave a spell with characters that seem ready to implode, characters that are so self-restrained and internalized they are solitary even when with someone.

1995

I thought, "she's gotta be kidding. Bodie/Cowley? Okay, now we're taking this 'slash anybody' thing too far." Then I read the story. She was *so* good at reading the characters, she was *so* good at maintaining their personalities and fears and identities that when I finished the first story I thought, "Of *course* Bodie/Cowley makes sense! This is great!"

1998

I second [D]'s recommendation of this story; it has sequels, too. I don't Really Believe in Bodie/Cowley myself, but for the duration of the story I do. It's also a fine example of fitting an entire new sequence around the events in episodes.

2010

Look Through My Eyes by Jane Carnall is a very original, powerful and moving story that stirred a lot of discussion back then in 1991 and generated a whole variety of sequels, some B/D, gathered in a second zine, "A Simple Game"....It's a story centered on the Bodie/Cowley pairing but it doesn't belong to the "Fox and Wolf" universe. Based on perfectly plausible premises, developed to their extreme consequences, it's darker, harsher, grittier. And yet, there is also love, tenderness and passion, expressed with the dry, understated and effective style that's peculiar to the author, and a deep, haunting sense of tragedy.