Yearning Hearts
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| Title: | Yearning Hearts |
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| Editor(s): | Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub |
| Date(s): | September 1992 |
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| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Yearning Hearts is a het 128-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology..
The fiction is almost all by Debbie Ristik . Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub was the editor.
It contains much art and received three nominations for Beauty and the Beast Fan Quality Awards (which is not the same as Fan Q Awards) at TunnelCon III.
The artists are Rosemarie Hauer (mostly) and Barb Klapperich. This zine also utilizes some Dover clip art.
Editorial: Toni
What is it about this show? What is it that takes people who were bored, directionless, and restlessly searching for something more, and yanks their potential into the open- making writers of those who only dreamed of writing, artists of those who only dreamed of drawing, and brought together so many diverse people to share in its power?
I don't know what it is--all I know is, as so many of as can say, it changed my life. In June of 1990, I decided to cake a tiny chance. The pilot episode of an already cancelled show was going to be on; it sounded a little too "high concept" for me, but what the heck- what's an hour of videotape? If I didn't like it, I didn't have to even finish watching it; and certainly I wouldn't have to ever watch it again.
Who knew? I'd always thought of myself as a writer, but I hadn't written anything for nearly 20 years. It was always someday, when things are smoother, when I have time, when the kids are older, when my job is easier, when ... Abruptly, "today" became the "when". Before the echoes of the "scenes from next week" had died away, I'd started my first story. And I haven't stopped since.
So--thank you, Ron and Ron, Linda and Jay and Roy, Edward and Armin and David, Irina and Ellen and James, Joseph and Tony and John and Ritch, Beah and Terri and George and Victor Howard and Alex and Linda and Shelley ... and everyone else who had anything to do with bringing us what inspired us. [1] And thank you to everyone who reads these things we've been moved enough to produce, in tribute and in need of new stories about these people and the world(s) they inhabit. Not only have they given us a dream to aspire to - they've given usthe motivation to make our own dreams come true.
Editorial: Debbie
Dear Readers and Friends:Once upon a Time, in the not-so-recent past, there was a woman who, though she loved her husband and her job, felt unfulfilled in her life, almost worthless. You see, being overweight as she was, she felt ostracized, unworthy and unimportant, She needed something climactic to happen to her, needed a change in her life.
One night, while flipping through the television stations as she was wont to do, she happened to get on the bad side of her husband. An argument followed - a bad argument for which they were both very sorry later.
The next afternoon, her husband brought her a present, for he wanted her to know he was no longer angry and didn't want her to be either. In the package was a cassette-a video cassette-and when she read the title of the tape, she was intrigued.
They watched it together, and little did the husband know, he'd changed his wife's life forever, for he'd given her the one thing she'd always been looking for. He'd given her... a dream.
When, lo and behold, the wife discovered that the characters on the tape she'd watched were characters on a television show, she asked herself two questions: When were they on... and why hadn't she ever seen them before?
Now, nearly, four years later, her life has changed for the better. She's found the things she was missing, like music and literature: she'd always longed to write fiction, engross herself in the lives of others through the written word. She has those things now ... she remembers. She is confident in herself and her abilities, and these attributes have assisted her in her constant desire to better herself in her job. Her writing has been accepted by those who share her love for this modern-day fairy tale; she's been been given a Fan-Q award by those who share her confidence that this dream we share will never die ... and she will never forget the story that gave her these things... will never forget the writer of the story.
For everything, she will always be grateful.
Contents
- Vision of Love (April 12, 1987) by Debbie Ristick (reprinted from an unknown issue of Promises of Someday, with "some changes to the text") (1)
- Where Are You? (art)
- Those Quiet Hours (art)
- The Perfect Night, poem by MariLynn (5)
- To Capture a Dream, fiction by Anita Hoosen (6)
- Abandon (art)
- Yearning Hearts, part one by Debbie Ristick (10)
- Your Breath Upon My Face (art)
- Lead Me Through the Dark by Debbie Ristick (epilogue to "Dead of Winter") (reprinted from an unknown issue of Promises of Someday, with "some changes to the text") (21)
- The Darkest Hour by Debbie Ristick (epilogue to "Arabesque") (reprinted from an unknown issue of Promises of Someday, with "some changes to the text" - and with the title "Arabesque Aftermath") (25)
- Haunting Memories (art)
- The Joining by Debbie Ristick ("This story is a rewritten version of a story that appeared in the zine Beyond the Threshold #2 put out by Amber Enterprises. It is different in several key places, and longer. My thanks to Amber Enterprises for publishing "The Joining" originally; it was my first published story.") (27)
- Guardians (art)
- Shadows (art)
- The Kiss (art)
- Thy Sweet Love Remembered by Debbie Ristick and Toni L. Bogolub (51)
- Love's Gentle Smile (art)
- Tell Me (art)
- The World in Your Eyes (art)
- I'm Here for You (art)
- Let It Be Me (art)
- Always a Friend (art)
- My Dreams, poem by MariLynn (119)
- Afternoon Delight by Debbie Ristick (inspired by Rosemarie's art) (120)
- Amber Light (art)
- A Happy Life by Debbie Ristick (122)
- Eyes of the Night (art)
- Yearning Heats, part two: A Destiny Fulfilled, fiction by Debbie Ristick (124)
- The Time We Find in a Heartbeat (art)
Sample Interior
"Where Are You?" by Rosemarie Hauer
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"Your Breath On My Face" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Guardians" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Shadows" by Rosemarie Hauer
"The Kiss" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Tell Me" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Let It Be Me" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Always a Friend" (portrays Joe Maxwell) by Rosemarie Hauer
"Amber Light" by Rosemarie Hauer
"Eyes of the Night" by Rosemarie Hauer
Reactions and Reviews
“To Capture a Dream” is by Anita Hoosen. Otherwise, all the fiction in this Classic/Continued Classic zine is by Ristik except for “Thy Sweet Love Remembered,” a fine novelette on which she collaborates with Bogolub. Three stories were originally printed elsewhere. Standout novelette, “Thy Sweet Love Remembered,” a collaboration between Ristik and Bogolub, has a complex plot involving jeopardy to the tunnels and to V. Marty Dickens, ex-tunnel brat, shows up as a cop gone undercover as a law clerk in the DA's office. Once the partner of Jimmy Morero, slain by Paracelsus in “Alchemist,” Marty (a girl) is investigating the series of “slasher” murders that have been happening for the last few years, initially not realizing they're connected to V. Marty becomes romantically involved with Joe, V/C consummate their love, and Moreno's duplicity is revealed...and avenged...in a Continued Classic story with no explicit parallels to 3rd season except Moreno's being a crook. Two poems by MariLynn. Excellent artwork, mainly portraits, by Rosemarie Hauer. [2]
References
- ^ These are all actors, writers, and producers of the show -- this fan makes a pointed effort not to include Jo Anderson (the actress who portrayed Diana Bennett).
- ^ from Helpers' Network Quality Fanzine Review -- 1997