Pleasant Dreams

Fanfiction
Title:	Pleasant Dreams
Author(s):	Laura Cooksey
Date(s):	May 9, 1995
Length:
Genre:	slash fanfiction, PG-13
Fandom:	The X-Files
External Links:	online here
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Pleasant Dreams was the first slash X-Files story posted to the internet. It is by Laura Cooksey.

The story is about Mulder and an OC named Ben.

Summary: "Mulder is shocked when he first learns that his new friend is gay, but decides instead to be open to this possibility as well."

Author's warning: "Okay, here we go -- this story involves gay relationships. If this turns you off, freaks you out, or raises your blood pressure in an unhealthy way, abort now!"

Author's Comments From the Introduction

Okay, here we go -- this story involves gay relationships. If this turns you off, freaks you out, or raises your blood pressure in an unhealthy way, abort now!... This story is rated PG-13 for some mild language and a little sexual content. I welcome comments at my email address, above. Flames will be ignored, or printed out and passed around to my friends for laughs, so don't bother.

Fan Comments

I'd like to thank everyone for being so openminded to allow this particular type of story to be posted without condemnation on the newsgroup...

About a year ago the first gay Mulder story was posted, Pleasant Dreams by Laura Cooksey (forgive me if my memory is bad - old Dragons and all that...) and while there were a few dissenters, the majority of readers supported the author's right to post any type of story on the board; as long as it was labelled properly so that you could bypass it if it wasn't your cuppa tea.

I'm happy that this particular type of fiction has become accepted on the board; so much so that I encourage anyone who is working on any fanfic awards to include slash fiction as a valid and separate catagory [sic] - yah, I've already tweaked Stef's ear about the Spookys... this type of fiction deserves its own arena for appreciation and not to be absorbed into the voting pool among the others...

Anyway, enough rambling from me - thanks to all the authors and readers for proving once again that ATXC is truly open to all who come here.