Simon's Side of the Fountain

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Zine
Title: Simon's Side of the Fountain
Publisher: Songs from the Sewers
Editor:
Author(s): Valaria
Cover Artist(s): Virginia Sky
Illustrator(s):
Date(s): 2002
Medium: print
Size:
Genre:
Fandom: The Sentinel
Language: English
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Simon's Side of the Fountain was published in 2002 and is a 112-page slash and het Sentinel digest-sized novel by Valaria.

The focus is the character Simon Banks.

Summary

This 5-story arc, written by Valaria, is from Simon Banks' point of view. The reality and the nightmare of Blair's drowning and resurrection at the fountain recurrs in Banks' dreams through all the stories. Jim and Blair have found their way to each other by the end of the first tale, and stay together thoughout the zine, but we are not in their bedroom; we're in Simon's. With Banks in a wheelchair after the shootout in Major Crimes, Blair has a crisis of conscience over the offer of a gold shield, and Naomi appoints herself as Simon's primary (and live-in) therapist, with expected results. Secrets are revealed as the stories unfold: what Simon has been keeping from Naomi, Naomi's fears, and what Jim has been hiding from Blair as well as himself. [1]

Chapters

  • Sometimes I Feel (3)
  • On the Ledge (14)
  • Coming Clean (44)
  • Cattus Interruptus (76)
  • Weighing the Dice (89)
  • Epilogue (110)

Reactions and Reviews

A Simon POV story and a great development of Simon's character.[2]

A 5-story arc from Simon's POV. 1 story is explicitly slash (a non-traditional pairing till the end of the 1st story), 3 explicitly het. J/B together from the end of the 1st story. [3]

References

  1. ^ from Agent With Style
  2. ^ quoted anonymously from a mailing list (June 6, 2003)
  3. ^ comments in 2010 by a fan selling this zine