May God Hold You in His Hands...
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| Title: | May God Hold You in His Hands... |
| Publisher: | Jennifer Thompson |
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| Author(s): | Jennifer Thompson and Bridget O'Donnell |
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| Date(s): | March 2000 |
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| Genre: | het |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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May God Hold You in His Hands... is a 42-page het Beauty and the Beast novel by Jennifer Thompson and Bridget O'Donnell. Artwork by Marina Boers.
Summary
The publisher's summary:
This novelette takes Catherine on a journey to Ireland to help a friend return her nephew to his father who is a member of the Irish Republican Army. Meeting up with old friend Brigit O'Donnell, who introduces them to the attorney who can help, Catherine is surprised when he is the face of someone she knows.
Meanwhile Vincent is making special preparations, with the help of the tunnel children, for their third anniversary. This is the first fanzine by author Jennifer Thompson who wrote this as a St. Patrick's gift for her friends and family.
From the Editorial
I was 15 when Beauty and the Beast went off the air. I can remember the emotions I felt when I discovered it was going to be cancelled. Suddenly part of my life was disappearing and I had no control over it. Within the first year of it's cancellation I began putting my tapes away and finding other things to do with my life instead. By the time I was 20 it was all but forgotten. The only remnants of my previous obsession were two pewter' figurines of Catherine and Vincent and my companion book. The rest were away, in storage somewhere, long forgotten.
Every Halloween until I was 23 I would watch "Masques." A tradition that had been upheld somehow for many years. But for some reason, even with watching that episode I wasn't encouraged to look up some of the other tapes. Even that went by the wayside eventually, at least for two years. Then last October I vowed to continue that tradition. Around 8pm I pulled out my copy of "Masques" and watched it. After it was over my mom asked me if I had any other episodes on tape. Pulling out my first season tapes I found the pilot and we watched that together. In those two hours I was pulled back into the magic, pulled back into the love, and pulled back into fandom once again. The next day I started looking on the internet and found that I was not alone. Ten years after it's demise, Beauty and the Beast has more fans then ever. The fairy tale would live on.
During this adventure in cyberspace I discovered something called fanfiction. Being a writer since I was little, I wanted to give it a try. A month later I had my first story on the 'net, with more to come. By Paddy's Day 2000, I had completed my first zine, a novella titled "May God Hold You In His Hands." This zine was a St. Paddy's Day gift for some friends and family, but within a month I decided to share it with the rest of fandom. This is the second edition, and I hope you enjoy it.
This story is dedicated to all of us who have come back; who were never far away, fairy tales never die.