Dark Fire (Star Trek: TOS zine)

You may be looking for Dark Fires, a Dark Shadows zine, or The Dark Fire Saga, a Star Wars zine.
Dark Fire is a K/S slash dark fic Star Trek: TOS anthology edited by Kathy Resch. 
Artwork has been uploaded to Fanlore with the publisher's permission.
==Descriptions==
From a distributor, Agent With Style: "With stories that revel in the dark fire within us all, this slash zine contains several tales that use the theme of 'the dark meld' between Kirk and Spock, while other stories take some truly fascinating looks at the darker or kinkier side of K/S."
From a 2007 ebay seller: '"WARNINGS : THESE STORIES ARE NOT 'NICE' . Warnings include torture, rape, incest, coersion, piercings, graphic descriptions, partner betrayal, bondage, Mirror Universe, alternate universe. Some stories have 2 or 3 of these warnings in the same story. No death stories, & all have K&S together at the end, in most, K/S is the only pairing at all."
Summaries below by Gilda F.
==Issue 1==
 
Dark Fire 1 was published in December 2004 and has 200 pages. 
In the editorial, the editor dedicates this zine to the vid Closer saying that the "video was a major inspiration for this fanzine. If you haven't see it, you absolutely must."
From the editorial: 
Art is by T'Guess. Contains 7 short stories, 1 novelette, 2 novellas, 1 poem & art.
*The Strangest Thing by T'Guess -- novella (It takes Spock being brutally tortured and humiliated for Kirk to realize his love for him. Note: the print zine version is a longer version than the one online.) (1)
* Anti Deus Ex Machina by T'Marii (AR: The artificial kironite isnʼt working, so Kirk stalls for time by playing along with what Parmen wants.) (51)
*Golden, Tangible by Farfalla (Spock gets a nipple ring.) (60)
*Incubus, poem by J S Cavalcante		(62)
*Orion Encounter by Olive Simmons (M/U: A night of sex between Kirk and Spock becomes much more.) (64)
*Even Stars Bleed by Nadja Lee	(Kirk and Spockʼs friendship is shattered after Spock goes into pon farr and rapes Kirk.)	 (68)
* In Their Velvet Prime by Seven of Six (Spock begins to realize that more happened on Plutonius than he remembers.) (94)
*Making a Point	by AcidQueen (Some things apparently canʼt be said without chains.) (107)
* The Agent by Fleur du Mal (A/U: A bounty hunter waits for the criminal, Spock.) (110)
* Trespassing on Heaven	by J S Cavalcante (Kirk learns that not just Spock was changed by the Vulcanʼs pon farr.) (115)
*Restraint by Jean Lightfoot (Kirkʼs love is put to the test when, after a violent confrontation, Spock begins to pull back from the strong physical and emotional responses Kirk engenders in him.) (135)
* Editorial (197)
File:Strangestthing.jpg|art by T'Guess for "The Strangest Thing," from issue #1 
Image:darkfire1-1.jpg|inside issue #1, T'Guess, from issue #1
Image:darkfire1-2.jpg|inside issue #1, warnings at the back of the zine, from issue #1
Image:darkfire1-3.jpg|inside issue #1, T' Guess, from issue #1
 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Dark Fire 2 has art by T'Guess (front cover) and AcidQueen. It was published in July 2007 and contains 222 pages.
*Divisions by Jean Lightfoot (When a mental link is forced on him by the “wolf” Kirk, Spock finds that it has overridden his link to TʼPring...just as he is going into pon farr.)
*Ruk's Choice by Dale (Kirk avoids Spock after returning from Exo III, until, confronted by his lover, he confesses to being raped while on the planet.)
*Research by K'Chaps (Kirk gets more than he bargained for when Spock discovers heʼs been trying to research Vulcan sexuality and gives him a lesson he wonʼt soon forget.)
*To Serve the Empire by	Olive Simmons (M/U: After escorting a convoy of ships to the planet, Shimkazi Prime, the Empireʼs ʻdrugʼ planet, Kirk and Spock get together and pretty much spend the rest of their time having sex.)
*Behold Thy Desire by Angelise (During the interphase with the Mirror Universe, Kirk and Spock both discover that their counterparts are involved in a sadomasochistic relationship — which apparently is exactly what the two men also want.)
*Acts of a Criminal Nature by Deborah Cummins (Spock is sold to a brutal, sadistic woman after being convicted of murder on the planet, Menora.)
*Ghost in the Machine by T'Guess (Kirk and Spock are lovers, in every way but the physical, which is causing Spock to start picking up on Kirkʼs every thought and sensation whenever he has sex with anyone.)
*Release by Farfalla (At Gol, Spock imagines a strange tableau of sex and death and guilt after running away from his lover, Kirk, and from Starfleet.)
*Equal Opportunity by AcidQueen (Non-K/S story)
*Kiss of Life by AcidQueen (Non-K/S story)
 File:Ghostinthemachine.jpg|art by T'Guess for "Ghost in the Machine"
Image:darkfire2-1.jpg|inside issue #2, T'Guess
Image:darkfire2-2.jpg|inside issue #2, AcidQueen
Image:darkfire2-3.jpg|inside issue #2, AcidQueen
Image:darkfire2-4.jpg|inside issue #2, sample text, illo by AcidQueen
 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:2004 Zines
Category:2007 Zines