Put Your Head on My Shoulder

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Title:	Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Publisher:	Home of Professional Madness
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Author(s):	Too Loose
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Date(s):	1996
Medium:	print
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Fandom:	due South
Language:	English
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Put Your Head on My Shoulder is a slash 112-page novel by Too Loose. It was edited by Noel Silva.

Summary

Summary from Agent With Style: ".... set immediately after the events of "Juliet is Bleeding." After Vecchio has hard words with Fraser at Irene's funeral, he goes to the Mountie's apartment the following day to apologize. But the apartment has been stripped clean, and all Inspector Thatcher will tell him is that Fraser's whereabouts are 'classified'."

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Reactions and Reviews

1996

Good value for money zine, with cute tele-photo cover, no interior art, clear presentation and layout. Medium level angst, characterisation patchy. Recommended.

Now I just wanted to say a few words about PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER by Too Loose. I don't normally care for this person's writting much so was not really looking for this to be a good story. But to my ever so please surprise, it really was very good. It's set directly after "Juliet is Bleeding" and takes the premise of a pre-sexual relationship Ray and Benny have hit the skids on the personal front due to some of the emotions left over from that episode. While things are still unresolved, Benny must enter protective custody--unbeknownst to Ray who only knows that Benny has moved out of his apartment and the consulate will only tell him that Benny's been permanently recalled back to Canada--permanently. That's how it starts and I won't say anymore other than it's a thoroughly satisfying read. It has just enough angst to make things interesting for those of us who like them to be cranked up a bit, but low enough levels of it not to scare off anyone who has a low tolerance to such things, with the humor that makes all things bearable. Again, the characters *sound* like themselves. I'm not sure I can convey how important this is to me for a story to work. I can believe the Ray and Benny we see on the show saying and doing these things. It works. The fact that not once is 'Ben' used only makes me like it more. :-)

OVERALL REACTION--A thoroughly enjoyable read. Again, worth the $10 I paid for it and I reecommend it to anyone looking for a nice smooth intro into the slash side of DS or to someone who has seen it all along.

One of the many things that makes a DS story fun for me, other than the great writing, great sex, great, where was I, is the way fanwriters set my mind of in few directions that I didn't see coming.

In . . .SHOULDER, Frazer [sic] is going to be shipped back to Canada after he and Ray grapple with international incident spectacularly well. When I showed this page to fellow slash fan, he said: "You realize what's going to happen when he goes back to Canada. They are going to find out that he can't work with anybody, so they're going to have to send him back to Chicago."

I didn't see things that far. I just figured that Frazer/Ray was a doomed romance, that Frazer would only be allowed to stay with Ray until they realize that there's a brain beneath those Ken-doll looks. They would promote him, causing an automatic transfer to...