Transients
| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Transients |
| Author(s): | Helen Raven |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
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Transients is a slash Professionals story by Helen Raven.
It was published in Unprofessional Conduct #6.
Author's Comments
My next two stories, over the next two years, were also published by Sara, but in anthology zines in her very straightforward house style. [bring out Unprofessional Conduct 3 and 6]...The zine as a whole won an award, and Sara sent us all photocopies of the certificate. [show photocopy]
The second one is a novella called “Transients” in which Doyle used to be a police constable but is now a massage therapist, and Bodie’s been invalided out of CI5 and is Doyle’s newest, least-friendly client. It’s all takes place in Doyle’s treatment room and is very low-key by my standards. It got me my third and last award. [show certificate]
Now, the reason this was my last award – when we’ve got three more zines to go - may have something to do with shifts in my fannish social life since about 1992. I was spending a lot of time in California and Seattle for work and fun, and it was easy by then to get contact information for local fans – after all, they were ordering zines from Sara. And wherever I went, the local fans always gave me a very warm welcome (remember, I was the second-best writer in Pros fandom!).
It was on a 1994 visit that I saw just how many of the West Coast fans had this email thing. A fan in San Francisco talked me through using her account to send a message to a fan in L.A. – who replied within the hour - and as soon as I got home I bought a modem and signed up with CompuServe – which was pretty much the first ever commercial online service.
The L.A. fan I’d sent my first email to was a woman who wrote as M. Fae Glasgow, or sometimes as Cally Donia, or as Emma Scot – you get the idea. She had recently burst onto the scene with some gritty and controversial stories, and she’d managed to make contact with Sebastian, who had dropped so far out of the UK fannish scene that I’d entirely accepted the fact that I would never, ever meet her. But M Fae sent me home with a letter of introduction, and Sebastian and I really hit it off.
I soon persuaded her to get email, and we spent a couple of years happily bouncing ideas off each other and occasionally off M. Fae. I was still with the regular UK fandom, but maybe not being too clever about hiding the fact that my emotional life had shifted elsewhere. [1]
Reactions and Reviews
Bodie and Ray are in a relationship, until Bodie is killed during a mission. How will Doyle carry on? But maybe everything's not lost after all.... One of my favorite stories by this writer. [2]