Working Out
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Working Out |
| Publisher: | Duet Press |
| Editor: | |
| Author(s): | Stormy |
| Cover Artist(s): | |
| Illustrator(s): | |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
| Medium: | fanzine, print |
| Size: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Due South |
| External Links: | Duet Press |
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Working Out is a slash Due South novel by Stormy. The focus is on Fraser/Kowalski. It has 248 pages, a colour cover and 50 b&w customized clipart illustrations.
It was edited by Valentin, proofread by m. butterfly and P.R. Zed.
Summary: An out-of-shape Fraser joins a gym and snags Ray Kowalski as his personal trainer.
Awards
- Nominated 2004 Sizzler Award for best zine
- Won 2003 Huggy Award for best zine story in Other Cop/Spy/ Detective category, ZebraCon 2003
- Nominated for a Serious Duck Award, June 2003, for best slash novel/novella
From the Zine
Big Ol' Spoiler
Nobody dies and the ending's happy. This is a humorous Fraser/Kowalski story, Alternate Universe, SlashFicLite. Vecchio makes an appearance in reference only, "as a friend".
Warnings
This story contains graphic descriptions of gay sex. There is reference to underage sex. And the possibility of offscreen het sex. In fact, even Dief tries to get laid. This is an Alternate Universe (AU). A snippet from this story was posted to a couple of lists in 2001.
Disclaimer
Those things recognizably Due South are the property of their original creators and backers and/or their current owners. Anything you don't recognize is mine.
Other Sources
Occasionally I like to incorporate dialogue from the show into a story, such as the segment of Ray-ish exposition from Eclipse that now takes place in a restaurant rather than a crypt. In a couple of places I've attributed lines or phrases to characters other than their canon speakers, such as an original character saying, "Ray. Ray. Ray. Ray," or "I've been to [Toronto]. Nothing could survive there." In one place, I've taken a chunk of Vecchio/Fraser dialogue from Victoria's Secret and attributed it to Kowalski/Fraser. You will, no doubt, recognize these elements. There's also a bit of mirroring I do with my own dialogue in which the speaking parts of an early scene are reversed later in the novel.
I've dropped in a recognizable character name or two from other media influences, such as Forever Knight, Queer as Folk and Hard Core Logo, sort of cameo appearances, if you will. There are also references to everything from Barney Miller to Shakespeare, including Monty Python, Saturday Night Fever, Stars Trek and Wars, I Love Lucy, and Frank's Cock (bet you never thought to see those two juxtaposed!), to name a few.
Table of Contents
- Preface (i)
- Hurry Up Before I Die a' Weighting (1)
- Canadian National Exposition (25)
- Misconscrewed (43)
- Staff Infection (55)
- Escape Claws (59)
- Love is a Many-Gendered Thing (70)
- It's Training Men (78)
- Mall Adjusted (84)
- It Takes a Dief (96)
- The Ego Has Landed (102)
- The Plot Sickens (126)
- To the Man or Porn (130)
- He Shall Be Lovon (102)
- A Stella Performance (153)
- Writhe and Shine (165)
- Beauty is in the Eye of the Beer-Holder (169)
- A Turn of Frase (186)
- I Coulda Been a Pretender (191)
- Blind Just Us (204)
- Paradise Tossed (209)
- Penance, Anyone? (214)
- Shake, Bed Guy, Shake (227)
- Epilogue: And Laugh Continues (244)