Reads a thick, stapled mimeographed publication, gone feathery around the edges. Inside information Clandestine author of slash fiction, for which she publishes a monthly fanzine.
Slash fiction is written almost exclusively by women.
It describes in livid physical and romantic detail, love affairs between male television characters. Brady and Doyle from The Professionals , or Sulu and Chekhov from Star Trek . Emma's province is Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . The ruined beauty of Richard Basehart, the slightly aging delicacy of David Hedison, make her heart grow faint. She writes of hidden moments of intimacy snatched between the giant squid or intelligent sea aliens.