Telling Marge
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Telling Marge |
| Author(s): | Kate MacClean |
| Date(s): | May 1994 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | Telling Marge |
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Telling Marge is a Bodie/Doyle story by Kate MacClean. It was her first Pros story.
It is a post-Backtrack story in which Doyle's anxiety about Marge Harper's advances on him leads to a misunderstanding with Bodie.
The fic was published in No Holds Barred #6.
Reaction and Reviews
Unknown Date
This was actually her first Pros story ever - it's not *quite* at the level of her others, I don't think, but it's still marvelous! [1]
1995
Telling Marge by Kate Maclean. Little comment actually. It was ok but not inspirational. Nothing particulary stood out except that itseemed to lack sparks. [2]
2006
Finally, the punctuation errors you found in Telling Marge are almost all directly from the zine itself, not scanning errors. After reading your comment I decided to go back and fix some of the ones that are clearly typos - I struggle witht [3]this, what to fix when scanning; it's hard sometimes to distinguish between typos and authorial errors, and I think it's appropriate for me to change the latter. Have you read any of her other stories? The Gryphon Press zines are better edited, so it is easier to see which punctuation issues in KM are the author's style and which are errors. Also, Telling Marge was her first story; her later ones are definitely more polished (though I have a great fondness for TM). That's why I didn't talk much in my essay about TM; she hadn't yet reached her height in terms of emotional intensity, etc. [4]
2010
Kate MacLean is in my top five reread writers. Her stories are all about emotional conflict, are all set squarely in the CI5 world, and they usually employ subtle control of the narrative voice, encouraging the reader to probe under the surface layer to truths the pov character himself misses. Reading with a text to discern the meaning is far more rewarding than simply being told what's going on and what it means, and Kate MacLean always gives me this experience in spades. This story is her lightest. Set post-Backtrack, it rests on a classic emotional misunderstanding as Bodie thinks Doyle's coming onto him is merely a ploy to rid himself of Marge Harper's attentions. Simple but fun, the story beguiles us with alternations of humour and tension on the journey. [5]
References
- ^ justacat at shooting2kill's livejournal (was public at time of access)
- ^ comment at Virgule-L, quoted anonymously (January 5, 1995)
- ^ Ironic typo.
- ^ comments from Pros musing: thoughts on Kate MacLean...., posted August 25, 2006; archive is
- ^ 2010 comments by istia, prosrecs, Archived version