Never and Always Lovers

Fanfiction
Title:	Never and Always Lovers: A Ni-Var for Two Apart
Author(s):	Carolyn Spencer
Date(s):	print zine (1997); The Kirk/Spock Fanfiction Archive 240 words
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
External Links:	on AO3
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Never and Always Lovers: A Ni-Var for Two Apart is a Kirk/Spock poem by Carolyn Spencer.

It was published in the print zine T'hy'la #19 (1997).

Reactions and Reviews

1997

Really nice to see the ni var form used again. Seems this format was more popular years ago, but never really seen as much in K/S as it is in older Gen zines.

A lovely, lovely poem meant for re-reading, especially on dreary, rainy afternoons. It reinforces the melancholy and then gives a ray of hope, of happiness. Carolyn's prose is so poetic anyway its a wonder she didn't turn to poetry long before this. Some exquisite lines and depth of insight here; "as if there were a place to which I could escape// that did not contain his essence," (Excuse me here while I recapture my stomach; it has thumped every time I've read that line. And my shoulders sort of tingle and then melt, too.)

Here's another, from Kirk: "Always the dividing line was thin.//Where white met black our colors bloomed/." So interesting, Spock's denial of the physical ("We were never lovers") and Kirk's affirmation of the mental and spiritual ("We were always lovers/)

All so perceptive, and quite beautiful. More, please?