Sound of the Flute
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| Title: | Sound of the Flute |
| Publisher: | Vendredi Press |
| Editor(s): | Deb Walsh |
| Date(s): | 1995 |
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| Fandom: | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | portions of the zine can be found online here, KF:TLC Online FAQ with extensive gen fiction links here, Archived version |
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Sound of the Flute is a gen 218-page Kung Fu: The Legend Continues anthology.
It was published by Deb Walsh and includes fiction by Margaret Newman, Carole Stiles, Sharon Boyes, Deb Walsh, Jeanne DeVore, Carolyn Cooper, Ann Raymont, and Merle Micklin, poetry by Barbara Staton, art by Sharon Palmer and Deb Walsh.
From the Editorial
Excerpted:
And welcome to the first issue of Sound of the Flute. That may be an optimistic welcome, but I'm hopeful that this will be the first of several issues. A year ago, I'd only seen a few episodes of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ... by the end of the summer, I was completely hooked. If you're reading this, you probably share my enthusiasm for the show. If not ... ve have vays of bringing you around!
This zine is special for me in a lot of ways. Obviously, it's based on a show I really like. And the fandom ... well, I've been kicking around fandom for over 20 years, and I've never encountered a fandom so friendly, so welcoming as KF:TLC before. I think I like the show as much for the people in the fandom as for the show itself. Discovering KF:TLC has introduced me to some of the nicest, most talented people I've ever met. And I'm really excited to have some of them represented here in the pages of this zine. All of the folks in this issue are active online, whether on the Internet Listserv (see details enclosed with the zine), Prodigy, America Online, or GEnie (ditto). Several of the short pieces in the zine have appeared on the KFFIC-L fiction list on the Internet. Some of the folks in this zine appear in fannish print for the first time and for an editor, that's one of the most exciting things about doing a zine. Not that I've 'discovered' new talent, I'm just providing the forum for that talent to be heard for the first time. Be sure you'll be seeing a lot more of S. Boyes, C. Stiles, and M. Micklin! There are some 'established' names in this zine, too, and I'm grateful to everyone who contributed for taking a chance on yet another new KF:TLC zine. Any time a writer or artist contributes to a new zine, they're taking a chance that that zine will be a good one. I hope all of the contributors will consider themselves part of a good zine.
I know I consider myself to be in excellent company with the writers who've provided their wonderful work for this first issue. Putting together this issue also had its sad moments. The death of Robert Lansing in October of last year was a painful reminder of the mortality of the figures we grow to love on the screen. I hope you'll find Jeanne DeVore's 'Sole Surviving Son' as cathartic as I did... Carolyn Cooper once asked me what the theme of this zine would be. I told her at the time, I thought it was 'family.' We have stories dealing with the various members of the extended Caine-Blaisdell family, from action to the most intimate pain of loss. But I think it's also a zine that focuses on closure, on resolution, and on coming to terms with the past and looking toward the future. Which, I think, is one of the reasons we all watch the show, that tension between the past and the present, and how the two form the future. From the poems of B. Staton, to the misadventures of Peter and Donny Double D in Harrigan's 'Honeymoon Blues,' from the vignettes of Carolyn Cooper, M. Newman, C. Stiles, S. Boyes, Jeanne DeVore, to the painful but haunting novel 'Sole Surviving Son' ... and M. Micklin's wrenching 'Empty Glass' ... there's some wonderful stuff in this issue.
Oh yeah, and I've got some stuff here, too. For those of you who like happy endings ... well, the last three stories ('Sole Surviving Son,' 'Empty Glass' and 'Elegy') may prove painful. Without giving too much away, don't read them if you're depressed, okay? Extra special thanks go to my editors, Kathy Sullivan, J. Swanson, and Joyce Riffle, for coming through at the last minute with edits on both my novellas. And to Joyce again, for proofing entire zine! Without these great friends of mine, this zine would never have seen print.
Contents
- Notes in the Key of Caine, editorial (2)
- Laura by Margaret Newman (vignette: memories of Laura and infant Peter haunt Kwai Chang Caine in the present.) (3)
- Investment Returns by Carole Stiles (vignette: the return of Kwai Chang Caine leaves Paul Blaisdell feeling displaced, until the past repays the present.) (5)
- Taiji by Sharon Boyes (vignette: During his wanderings, Kwai Chang Caine helps a stranger come to terms with life.) (9)
- Song of the Heart by Deb Walsh (novella: assigned to protect Tyler Smith from the attentions of a murderous stalker, Peter Caine must make some adjustments in his personal life as he tracks a killer.) (13)
- The Promise by Jeanne DeVore (vignette: Paul Blaisdell exacts a promise Kwai Chang Caine and discovers a friend in the process.) (70)
- Quicksilver, poem by Barbara Staton (72)
- Echoes of the Past, poem by Deb Walsh (73)
- Brothers in Arms by Deb Walsh (When Paul Blaisdell is taken prisoner by old enemies, Peter Caine finds himself with an unlikely new partner as a new Dragonswing is formed.) (77)
- Broken Bridges, Shattered Dream, poem by Barbara Staton (131)
- Without a Father by Carolyn Cooper (vignette: Peter Caine finds himself facing a future of uncertain emptiness.) (132)
- Honeymoon Blues by Ann Raymont (short story: Donny Double D and Lulua are about to get married, but where is the groom?) (135)
- Sole Surviving Son by Jeanne DeVore (alternate timeline novel: The death of Paul Blaisdell brings the Blaisdell and Caine families closer together , but the strain of holding them together may be too much for Peter to bear.) (141)
- Empty Glass by Merle Micklin (alternate timeline vignette: Detective Kermit Griffin takes on a special assignment for Annie Blaisdell, and finds his world torn apart.) (211)
- Elegy by Deb Walsh (alternate timeline vignette: Peter Caine searches peace in an unlikely place.) (215)
- You are Receiving this Zine Because(218)
