Waking from Dreams
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Waking from Dreams |
| Author(s): | PFL |
| Date(s): | 1997 |
| Length: | 3550 words |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | Hatstand; Archive of Our Own |
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Waking from Dreams is a Bodie/Doyle story by PFL.
It was published in Roses and Lavender #1 and is online.
A companion piece is Chances Change.
Reactions and Reviews
One of my favourite stories, an alternative ending to Meg Lewtan's circuit story There Has to be a Morning After (on the Proslib CD). PFL's story is set immediately after The Ojuka Situation and uses those events to springboard Bodie and Doyle into a changed relationship, one that departs entirely from Meg Lewtan's. The story's a tour-de-force of writing, emotion, and characterisation. It also happens to be one of my favourite types of story and a great example of the genre: third-party viewpoint, taking us through this climactic moment in their lives through the eyes of a third character no less involved than they are.[1]
...interesting and well written. I was never sure of the outcome but easily followed the author's lead. [2]
I love this story. Thoroughly and totally love it, can't be objective about it. I'll confess that I read it before publication and loved it then. Looked forward to reading it again. Have read it more than once, more than twice, more than ... You get the idea. It's based on Meg Lewtan's There Has to Be a Morning After. Murphy, is having an affair with Bodie. He is deeply in love and wants to spend his life with Bodie: but Bodie wants a casual ongoing affair. Murphy sees Bodie s life as balanced between love (with Murphy) and partnership/friendship with Doyle, who has said he isn't interested in men. But Murphy sees the depth of feeling Bodie has for Doyle and realises; that he has been living an illusion. I thought this story was so emotionally substantial, and so emotionally satisfying, that I remembered it as being much longer than it is... [3]
One of my favourite stories, not only in this zine, but in the fandom. It's an alt ending to Meg Lewtan's Proslib story, There Has to be a Morning After. I'm not going to spoil either story. PFL's story is set immediately after The Ojuka Situation and uses those events to springboard Bodie and Doyle into a changed relationship. It's short (only six pages) but perfect. IMO, of course. A tour-de-force of writing, emotion, and characterisation. It also happens to be one of my favourite types of story and a great example of the genre: third-party viewpoint, taking us through this climactic moment in their lives through the eyes of a third character no less involved than they are. [4]
References
- ^ 2010 comments by istia, prosrecs, Archived version
- ^ from DIAL #3
- ^ from DIAL #3
- ^ from Nell Howell at The Hatstand