Satin Storm

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Satin Storm
Author(s):	Susan K. Dundas
Date(s):	1989
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Satin Storm is a Kirk/Spock story by Susan K. Dundas.

zine art by Chris Soto from Scattered Stars #1

It was published in the print zine Scattered Stars #1.

Summary

"Spock, ruler of a Vulcan kingdom, invites a lost Terran soldier to spend the night and ends up wanting him to stay forever after a night together."

Reactions and Reviews

Picture Spock as Lord of the Castle. Now have Kirk show up to add a little spice to his existence. Ms. Dundas is a very descriptive writer, her words painting exciting pictures. The sex was marvelous ~ very steamy! And you just know that Kirk will come back again to be reunited with his newfound lover.

Susan K. Dundas is a very effective writer. I think this short piece is erotic, powerful, on the whole well- written, but for me it has one glaring deficiency. Even alternate universe stories should have at least some recognizable part of the Kirk and Spock characters. Why bother to call it K/S otherwise? But in this story, Kirk is a mere cardboard construct, defined only by his sexual responses, and the Spock that we are introduced to bears no resemblance whatsoever to our universe Spock. Yes, it's very erotic to hear him beg, "Bite it. Please, bite it," but the eroticism doesn't belong to the Spock character, but rather to this new construct. Nevertheless, this was a finely crafted story, with some notably different touches. The first conversation between 'Kirk' and 'Spock' was conveyed in a unique way, without the use of quotation marks, almost as if it were being conducted telepathically. Most effective. And Spock's internal coaments to himself during his arousal, and then attempting to prolong the moment of orgasm were new touches. I couldn't understand the sudden fixation Spock developed on Kirk; there didn't seem to be anything in the story to prefigure it. Of course the whole tone of the piece is filled with obsession anyway, so maybe there didn't need to be an explanation. But Spock struck me as being very fickle, to be yearning after his 'young man' in the dungeon, and then forgetting him completely in the arms of a total stranger. I was also distracted by the frequent use of "the younger man" to describe Kirk and "the older man" to describe Spock. It also seemed inconsistent to have Spock think "He wanted more, so much more," and then one paragraph later read ".... all he wanted to do was sleep off this lethargy." Despite these criticisms, I rank this as one of my favorite A/U stories.