Phoenix
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[edit] Phoenix 1
ed. by Nan Dibble
May, 1992
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art Information: Jane Freeman, Jan Durr, Lena Wood, and Anna Kelley.
Mostly V/D stories (one focuses on Elliot; another on the Other) taking off from the whole series. Occasional C sightings, but no SND. Lucy Green's "Endless Night" focuses on V's life being in jeopardy after he's bitten by a rabid stray dog. In Nan Dibble's "Recessional," V re-experiences the physical traumas of 3rd season. Maxine Mayer's "This Massive Darkness" is told entirely by V. He is trying to comply with D's request that he write his view of their first year together. Other fiction by Mayer, Dibble, Rhonda Collins, Lena Wood, Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub, Roxanne Shearer Koogler, Anna/Wayne Kelley, Jena Snyder, Michele Hawley. Poetry by Mayer and Sandie Dapoz.
[edit] Phoenix 2
ed. by Nan Dibble
December, 1992
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art Information: Art by Lena Wood, Jan Durr, Kriss Farver, Phyllis Berwick, Vickey Brickle-Macky, Nan Dibble, Jane Freeman, Sandy Tew.
Compried of thirteen stories. Highlights: Maxine Mayer's "Journey to a Nameless River" (V/D trek there and discover a special closeness) and Nan Dibble's Helios (V finds he's too fond of basking in the sunlight on D's roof: there's a price). Lucy Green's "Shadows," a tender story which sends C's spirit on a quest to help heal those she left behind. The zine concludes with Part I of Inez Paskal's novel "Where Man Meets Beast." Concluded in P-3. Also fiction by Rhonda Collins, Jena Snyder, Leslie Warstler, Lena Wood. Poetry by Sandie Dapoz, Maxine Mayer, Melissa Cook, Roxanne Koogler, Pat Farrar, Gloria Jones, Roz Levinson.
[edit] Phoenix 3
ed. by Nan Dibble
July, 1993
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art Information: Jan Durr, Pat Farrar, Kriss Farver, Rosemarie Hauer, Jackie Kapke, Inez Paskal, Sandy Tew.
Contains Janet Kilbourne's story, "Always Possibilities" in which D forces V to face what protecting those he loves has cost him. Jacquelyn Kapke's novelette, "Another Life," recounts V/D's courtship and marriage. In the conclusion of Inez Paskal's novel Where Man Meets Beast, V searches for missing Jacob...and his peace of mind, lost in part 1 (published in P-2). Other fiction by Maxine Mayer, and Gloria Jones. Poetry by Sandie Dapoz, Roxanne Shearer Koogler, Dibble, and Mayer, Gloria Jones and Pat Farrar.
[edit] Phoenix 4
ed. by Nan Dibble
July, 1993
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art Information: Rosemarie Hauer (cover and illos); Jan Durr, Kriss Farver, Sandy Tew, Lena Wood, and Marsha Young
Contains Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub's "A Distant Inner Galaxy" in which tortured telepath Cassie (who first appeared in Bogolub's SND novelette "Ad Astra"), once Joe's beloved foster sister, tries to help Diana and Joe identify and capture a cop-killer. Rhonda Collins' "The Power of Night" dramatizes the uneasiness of empaths V/D about coming to know each other too well. The zine concludes with the Mayer/Dibble novella "Dustbowl Cafe" in which, in an alternate timeline, Diana, owner of an isolated Arizona cafe, is puzzled by the mystery of amnesiac/handyman Vincent, whom she rescued from a wrecked van. Also fiction by Ron Holla, Michelle Wilson, Lena Wood, and Mayer. Poems by Melissa Cook Baird, Dibble, Mayer, Gloria Jones, and Roxanne Shearer Koogler.
[edit] Phoenix 5
ed. by Nan Dibble
July, 1994
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art Information: Art by Sandy Chandler Shelton, Marsha Young, Jan Durr, Dragon, Sandy Tew, Rita Klemp, and Rosemarie Hauer. Also a color plate frontispiece by Victoria Brickle-Macky.
This volume in this fourth season series contains a broad spectrum of storylines. British writer Janet Kilbourne offers two stories. "All That I Have" tells of Diana helping Vincent recover from his overwhelming grief about Catherine's death Kilbourne's "Promises to Keep" has D virtually shanghai-ing V, by motorcycle, for a weekend in an isolated cabin in CT. In Dibble's "Veritas," during a moment of insight, D realizes why V lost his bond with C. Rhonda Collins' story "Tyger, Tyger," an expanded retelling of the episode "In the Forests of the Night," offers insights into what V and Rolley felt during that difficult time. In the Continued Classic "Tunnel Rat" by Ann R. Brown, young Jacob befriends and brings Below a hostile, initially unappealing crippled street waif. Jackie Kapke's "Lisa's Back" tells of jealousy and conflict set off by the dancer's return to the tunnels, causing a rift between Vincent and Diana whose reconciliation leans heavily on the upper limit of PG-13. Ron Holla's "The Beast Within" tells of D's battle with her own "beast" when her sister is attacked by a serial rapist/murder. The zine concludes with "Kindred Spirits," a novelette by Dibble and Maxine Mayer, based on the assumption that Snow and Gabriel are vampires. Also a section from Jena Snyder's sort-of B&B novel "Kilkenny Cats" (D's become investigator Megan Rourke, and Vincent is Tomas, a normal-appearing man hunted by the IRA and the police). Poetry by Dibble, Melissa Cook Baird, Sandie Dapoz, and Roxanne Shearer Koogler.
[edit] Phoenix 6
ed. by Nan Dibble
June 1995
V/D
Rating: PG-13
Art information: Art by Rosemarie Hauer, Jan Durr, and Klemp.
Fiction by the usual Phoenix writers, with the addition of Lydia Bower, who wrote "Similarities" and "Rightfully Mine." In the former story, Vincent and Diana confront his claws...with a pair of clippers. In the latter, after explosive reluctance Vincent finally admits to himself (and Diana) his true and long-denied feelings about Catherine, the bond, and their chaste relationship. In Jackie Kapke's "A Parent's Passing," Father is stricken by a stroke and speaks comfortingly to nearly everyone Below who dreads being without him. In "The Crusade," Melissa Baird and Marsha Young theorize about what might have happened if Vincent continued to feel closest to Catherine in the act of killing...even after she was dead. In Jackie Kapke's "Distant Thunder," Vincent and Diana have a romantic interlude on her rooftop. Gloria Jones' "Whither Thou Goest" is a continuation of a previous story, Jackie Kapke's "Another Life" (from Phoenix 3), in which amnesiac Catherine, encountered Vincent in Central Park. This present story tells how she believes this shadowed figure holds the key to her forgotten past. Lena Wood presents "Copycat," in which Diana sets out to stop a murderer threatening to strike at someone in the cast of a rock musical about the legendary monsters of history. Rhonda Collins' "Journey's End" is a continuation of the storyline of her first Vincent/Diana series, in which married V/D are trying to come to terms with his having been forced to kill Modred, a son he never knew he had. Nan Dibble contributes two stories and a novelette. "Legacy" tells how severely wounded Elliot drags himself Below and Vincent sets out to heal the man's corrosive grief. In "Thoughts Beyond Imagining," Diana finds herself forced to speculate on the meaning of the fact that Catherine never revealed her pregnancy to Peter Alcott, the one person she could have safely confided in. And in the novelette "Sebastian," Diana takes in a stray cat who, health and confidence renewed, sets out on a campaign to oust rival Vincent from Diana's loft. Poetry by Maxine Mayer, Dibble, Rita Klemp, Baird.
