Promises (Professionals zine)

Promises is a slash Professionals anthology by Tish. 
It required an age statement to purchase.
==Issue 1==
Promises 1 was published in 1993 and contains 146 pages. It contains no art.
* Promises ("You need some time alone. When you've sorted it out, I'll be here. I'll always be here for you, Bodie. - Without a backward glance, he walked away. Bodie watched him go, knowing he had already made his decision. There was only one answer... and he knew it would hurt Ray more terribly than he had ever hurt him before.") (1)
* Stag Night ("It was getting more and more difficult to concentrate on the road with Doyle so close and so hot for it but he dare not stop. There was nowhere dark enough for another couple of miles and he knew Doyle wouldn't last that long. His hand reached for the zip of Doyle's jeans.") (46)
* Windows of the Soul ("Unable to stop himself, Doyle leaned back into Bodie's arms and sighed his hands holding Bodie's arms in place round his waist. His head fell back onto Bodie's shoulder, exposing his throat. Bodie kissed it. " Bodie ? " Mmmmmm ?" " What're you doing?") (57)
* By Any Other Name ("Since they'd been partners, Bodie had gone through women like a dose of salts, so, either he really was straight, or he was trying his damnest to prove to the world he was straight... which case, Doyle thought, he was in with a chance!") (93)
* A Touch in the Darkness (""Ray talk to me, please." Bodie was almost pleading, desperate to know what Ray was thinking, "'That wasn't me, Bodie, in the lift, it wasn't me ." "Then who." "Cowley." The word hung between them. Bodie paled. Cowley ...?!") (113)
* If I Had Only One Friend Left ("Your Mum ? Didn't know you 'ad a Mum, Bodie." " Hey, Doyle, I'm hurt! I know you've cast aspersions on me somewhat dubious parentage and I know no one's seen me Dad since I was conceived, but I do 'ave a Mum!") (135)
Image:promisespromisesflyer.jpg|flyer for issue #1, published in DIAL #2, click to read
Image:promises1-1.jpg| from issue #1
==Issue 2==
Promises 2 was published in May 1999 and contains 100 pages (56,000 words).
* Animal Magnetism ("All Bodie wanted was a little lovin'. Doyle, however, had other plans. With hindsight, however, a visit to the zoo at the height of the mating season was not the best place for a amorous Bodie.") (1)
* To Every Season...	 ("Doyle reached inside the car, curling his hand round the back of Bodie's neck, his thunb stroking baby-soft wisps of lair. The touch sent shivers all the way down Bodie's spine. "I'm sorry, Bodie, I was wrong. I'd like to try again." ) (10)
* Turn, Turn, Turn (Sequel to "To Every Season". "What's it to be, then, sunshine ? Bed, sofa or floor ?" "How 'bout the kitchen table ?") (17)
* Once More With Feeling		 ("As an excuse for why they were late to work that morning, this one took sans beating.")	 (22)
* Glad to See Each Other, art by Evelyn (facing page 26)
* Bomber's Legacy	 	 ("Cookie would be alive if it wasn't for you, Ray. It should have been you." June Cook's words threatened to break him but she was right. Cookie had a wife and kids. He had no-one.") (27)
* The Truth Will Out		 ("Suppose PS2 had been a truth drug and not a milld tranquilizer and just suppose Cowley hadn't been able to help than escape from that cellar before it took effect... ") (34)
* Romancing the Stone	 ("Sequel to 'If I Only fed One Friend Left' from PROMISES, PROMISES. Now her son was settled with Ray, Mrs Bodie decided it was tine she found someone for herself. George Cowley seemed eminently suitable. Perhaps it was time to resume where they'd once left off.")	 (41)
* Test of Faith		 	 ("Bodie is sent to protect Father Raymond Doyle, a Catholic priest who inadvertently shelters a bomber and finds himself hunted down by the IRA. Doyle became a priest to avoid the temptations of gay life. Will Bodie prove to be 'the ultimate temptation' ?") (50)
* Too Heavy a Burden, art by Evelyn (facing 82)
Image:promises2-1.jpg| from issue #2, "Animal Magnetism" by Evelyn 
Image:promises2-2.jpg| from issue #2, sample text
Image:promises2-3.jpg| from issue #2, "Glad to See Each Other" by Evelyn
Image:promises2-4.jpg| from issue #2, "Too Heavy a Burden" by Evelyn
==Issue 3==
Promises 3 was published in May 2000 and contains 115 pages. 
It contains no interior art.
* Wild Thing (1)
* Read 'Em and Weep (10)
* A Little TLC (28)
* Bat Out Of Hell	(sequel to 'Promises' in issue #2) (32)
* Need To Know	(65)
* Explosive Reaction (68)
* Dead Ringer For Love (75)
* Up Close and Personal	 (82)
 	 
		 
 	 
	 	 
	 
		 
	 
 
Category:The Professionals Slash Zines
Category:1990sCategory:2000 Zines