My Sunshine Also Rises

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	My Sunshine Also Rises
Author(s):	Michelle Christian
Date(s):	1991
Length:
Genre:	slash, parody
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	My Sunshine Also Rises
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My Sunshine Also Rises is a Bodie/Doyle story by Michelle Christian.

It was printed in Chalk and Cheese #9, and is online.

It has a sequel called "House of the Rising Sunshine."

It is a parody of Pros fandom fiction clichés -- the name of this fic is a nod to House of the Rising Sun, a controversial story which was printed in the first issue of "Chalk and Cheese."

Author's Comments

I wrote two stories based on my pet peeves for Pros, "My Sunshine Also Rises" and "House of the Rising Sunshine". I wrote the first one after having seen Doyle described as slight and small and waiflike and in need of bug butch Bodie to make him fulfilled for the umpteenth time in a row and just started listing all the things that drove me nuts. The over use of the nickname "sunshine" was also top of the list. There also seemed a tendency as well, at least for awhile there, for people not just wanting to write the characters' dialect phonetically, but in the process seeming to make Doyle Cockney. And not even doing that very well. Not only do I recall having seen people having him drop his h's right and left, but they were trying to convey this through the spelling and doing it where it's just phonetically impossible to do so.

For example (and this isn't a direct quote from anything, but might as well have been): "Cowley sent me down to t'e sc'ool ta git some more info on t'is guy." Sure sent me screaming into the night.

Reactions and Reviews

...silly, but cute.

I just wanted to dash off a short LoC, well, really it's kind of a fan letter. In CSC9, there was a wonderfully warped story, "My Sunshine Also Rises" and in C&C10, the sequel, "House of the Rising Sunshine". These two just wiped me out. I know the people around me were convinced I'd finally lost it because I giggled for an entire day after reading each of these literary masterpieces! Michelle Christian is a wonderful writer and I'm begging, with this LoC, for more of the Sunshine stories. Pretty please?

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. My friends, the cat lovers, gave me a dramatic reading of the original at a convention and I thought it was wonderful. But this one takes the cake. She has managed to include in a few short pages just about every common phrase/idea from Pros fandom to great effect. If they said sunshine one more time, I probably would have ended up in the hospital!

"My Sunshine Also Rises" by Michelle Christian. I call these "Dark and Stormy Nookie" tales. Although it was a bit strained, I got several good chuckles out of it.