Soulmate/Bondmate

This article is about K/S fanfiction by C. Weatherill and Sue Needle published on zine Duet #20. For For the glossary terms see the article Soulmates or, see Bondmate (glossary term).

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Soulmate/Bondmate
Author(s):	C. Weatherill and Sue Needle
Date(s):	1989
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Soulmate/Bondmate is a Kirk/Spock story by C. Weatherill and Sue Needle, and is a sequel to Soul in Despair. It was published in the print zine Duet #20.

Summary:

"Now bonded, Kirk and Spock go to Vulcan to have the bond. finalized and finish Kirkʼs healing."

Reactions and Reviews

First is a "resume" of Part I [Soul in Despair], and I looked ahead and saw that Part II was also "to be continued," and I got impatient with the lack of focus and cohesion, besides very bad run-on sentences.

It's about Kirk having been a prisoner and raped. But I thought from the resume of Part I that all of that had been resolved. Now it seems Spock must restore in Kirk's mind his attempted suicide, so he can get over it. I felt the drama was forced (by lots of exclamation points).

Meanwhile, a McCoy/Vulcan-male story that reduces McCoy to a blubbering groan and then he never sees the guy again. Then a lot of crises on the ship; and the story just stops in mid-scene.