Words

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Fanfiction
Title:	Words
Author(s):	Penny Wise
Date(s):	1995
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Words is a K/S story by Penny Wise.

Chris Soto for "Words" -- "Then there's the beauty on page 82. Spock looking out, filled with the purity of innocence and Kirk giving him one of "those" looks. I adore this piece. Soto creates such a mood with the most delicate of touches.

It was published in the print zine First Time #43.

Summary

"Spock goes into a type of trance when he tries to remove his feelings for Kirk."

Reactions and Reviews

1996

A neat little sequence starts this story: "James T. Kirk slipped deep into the arms of Morpheus again, this time without dreaming."

Many things to enjoy— I loved that the name of one of the starships is the "Margaret Thatcher" And of course, highly appropriate that Kirk should rush headlong to sickbay when in the middle of the night. McCoy informs him to " 'come right away." Despite the minor detail that no one mentioned it was Spock in sickbay and no one bothered to ask, I still enjoyed it and decided that Kirk just knew it was Spock.

The ever-changing POVs made some parts of this otherwise well-written story difficult to understand. As an example, in the sequence of Spock's thoughts about his growing love for the captain, all of a sudden, nght in the middle is one paragraph done in Kirk's POV. Something that is impossible for Spock to know and even if he did know, he would know from his own perspective, not Kirk's.

Lots I liked— "Spock's mind insisted on logic, control and discipline. His heart, soul and body wanted Jim Kirk." Also that Spock felt "agony' when separated from Kirk. And when Spock realizes his feelings at the moment he thinks he's hurt Kirk. All this and some really good techno-stuff about a nebula.

Some glitches— one second they're on the bridge, the next they're playing chess—and excuse me? Spock's "tiny buttocks"?

So neat, however, was the ingenuousness of "I love you" becoming the universe.

If I didn't know better, I'd say this was a first time story because Spock's affliction wasn't clear, Did he enter a trance to expel his passion for Kirk? Is it a will to die? The motivation is uncertain, although I'm sure the author had a clear idea. I must say I hardily approve the way Spock came out of the trance.