The Awakening (Beauty and the Beast zine)
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| Title: | The Awakening |
| Publisher: | produced in Ottawa, Canada |
| Editor(s): | Helen Pettigrew |
| Date(s): | July 1990 |
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| Genre: | het |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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The Awakening is a het Beauty and the Beast (TV) 149-page anthology. It contains fiction and poetry by Helen Pettigrew, Anne Simpson, and Janis McCavity.
"The Awakening" contains three interior art pieces by SAM. It also has song lyrics and, in a fairly common practice with Beauty and the Beast (TV) zines (which echoed the show), reprints of non-fannish "mainstream" poets such as Ranier Maria Rilke.
From an ad: "These stories continue from the last episode of the 3rd season. 3rd-season characters are included but the stories focus on a return of Catherine. Rating PG."
From the Editorial
What started out as a cathartic exercise has become an exercise of the vanities. Yes, we really wanted to see if three government employees with M.A.'s could produce something romantic, sensual and literate. I am not including the ability to proofread or manage a word processor without an automatic speller in the list of my accomplishments.
This will be a one-time effort (or so I say as I sit here penniless). We will continue to write stories in the hope that there will be "better writers when there are better readers" to quote a favourite author.
You will see that for the most part, we have decided to use "Canadian" spellings and our names have changed to protect the guilty.
The rating -- well, how do you censor B & B? We have tried to eliminate the "ing" words as in "throbbing" and "panting" but these are love stories! Let's put it this way -- PG 13 on the premise that it was some of those thirteen-year olds with their desire for violence, action and blood, running CBS who put our best show out of business!
The stories are third-season continuations. As two authors did not see the "lost" episodes there are some variations on the development of Diana's and Joe's characters in relation to Vincent and one story rather neatly wraps up all loose ends.
The stories keep our dreams alive -- may your dreams be as lovely as the one we had for three years and may your awakening be filled with light and hope.
Contents
- Apologia (1)
- Acknowledgments (3)
- Samain Night (song lyrics by Loreena McKennitt) (4)
- Against the Dying of the Light, fiction by BJS (6)
- Dialogue Beyond Invictus, fiction by Anne Simpson (66)
- The Sphere/Untitled Poems by Kathleen Raine (reprinted, non-fannish) (70)
- If I Had Dreams to Sell..., fiction by Helen Pettigrew (72)
- The Roses and the Windows, poem by Ranier Maria Rilke (reprinted, non-fannish) (115)
- I Know You're Out There Somewhere (song lyrics by The Moody Blues) (116)
- A Love Letter, epistolary fiction by Janis McCavity (117)
- Love Shall Not, fiction by Janis McCavity (118)
- Forever, poem by Helen Pettigrew (148)