Phoenix (Beauty and the Beast zine)

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Phoenix is a het Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology with six issues. 
It is a "fourth season zine." 
==Issue 1== 
Phoenix 1 was published in May 1992 and contains 187 pages. 
The art is by Jane Freeman, Jan Durr, Lena Wood, and Anna Kelley. 
The poetry is by Mayer and Sandie Dapoz.
From the flyer: 
 
* "The Naming Ceremony," "Flight," "Rags," "Lazy Sundays," "This Massive Darkness." by Maxine Mayer ("In these linked stories, Vincent and Diana advance in their relationship from Vincent's decision to invite Diana to Jacob's Naming Ceremony, through crises produced by Diana's acquisition of a cageful of finches, Vincent's jealousy about Diana's past lovers, and Diana's difficult realization that there is no life without limits, finishing with a powerful, insightful overview of Vincent's year since Catherine's death, in his own thoughts and words.") (1)
* Tomorrow, poem by Sandie Dapoz (10)
* The Road to Friendship by Rhonda Collins ("Diana's love for - and awareness of - Vincent are stronger than either of them wants to admit.") (11)
* No One Walks Like Vincent, poem by Maxine Mayer (also in Storms #1) (16)
* I dreamed of him again last night, poem by Sandie Dapoz (18)
* Sorority by Lena Wood ("Diana's sister, Susan, tries to find out what made "everything change" for Diana, in a strong story of sisterly love.") (19)
* A Gift to Remember by Anna and Wayne Kelley ("Diana encounters Kristopher, who wants to paint her portrait... and wonders who that strangely familiar woman was that she also met in the bookstore!") (27)
* Love Shall Not..., by Roxanne Shearer Koogler ("Vincent and Diana wrestle with the problem of how...or whether... to tell precocious Jacob about Catherine.") (36)
* House of Cards by Jena Snyder ("Diana sets off an unintended crisis by asking Vincent, "What's it like to kill somebody with your bare hands?") (43)
* Intimations of Mortality, poem by Maxine Mayer (54)
* Flight by Maxine Mayer (55)
* The Arrow, poem by Sandie Dapoz (60)
* In a Another Country by Nan Dibble ("Furious about the way Catherine treated Vincent - and the fact that Vincent still accepts it - Diana goes head to head with Catherine's memory within Vincent's heart.") (61)
* A Mother's Child, poem by Maxine Mayer (71)
* Sensations, poem by Maxine Mayer (71)
* Surcease of Sorrow by Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub ("Elliott and his wife, Emily, cope with the loss of their unborn child and find healing through their love.") (72)
* Rags by Maxine Mayer (84)
* Blind Man's Bluff, poem by Sandie Dapoz (99)
* Endless Night by Lucy Green ("Vincent and Diana's harrowing ordeal after he's bitten by a rabid dog.") (100)
* Starved, poem by Maxine Mayer (117)
* Recessional by Nan Dibble ("As Jacob's first birthday approaches, Vincent's mysterious injuries suggest he's re-enacting - in reverse - the events since the Trilogy -- with a surprising, magical outcome.") (118)
* Sometimes a Silent Answer by Michele Hawley ("How far can Diana persuade Vincent to go in protecting a child being sexually abused by her father?") (134)
* Phoenix, poem by Sandie Dapoz (145)
* The Tower and the Rose by Nan Dibble ("Returning to his own subjective country, the Other ("Dark Vincent") finds his tower destroyed and his chatelaine, Catherine, missing, and he's veryannoyed! A fable/fantasy.) (146)
* Lazy Sundays by Maxine Mayer (161)
* This Massive Darkness by Maxine Mayer (170)
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Phoenix 2 has the subtitle: A Fourth Season Zine". This fanzine contains 13 stories plus many poems and illustrations and is 194 pages long. It was published in 1992. 
From the flyer: "Live the love and laughter with Vincent and Diana as the dream of Beauty and the Beast continues!"
Contents:
* Journey to a Nameless River by Maxine Mayer ("what happens when Vincent agrees to escort Diana to his secret and nameless river?")
* Helios by Nan Dibble ("When did Vincent first see the sun, and what are his feelings toward it - then and now?")
* Shadows by Lucy Green ("What happens when Diana delivers to Vincent letters Catherine wrote during her captivity?")
* Connected by Maxine Mayer ("How does Diana begin to feel really a part of Vincent's life Below?")
* Out of Exile by Maxine Mayer ("Why does Vincent seek out Diana's help in coming to terms with his grief over Catherine's loss?")
* My Dread Lord by Maxine Mayer ("How does Diana react to Vincent's self-absorbed blindness toward her love?")
* The Other's Tale by Maxine Mayer ("What warning does the Other/Dark Vincent bring Diana to save Vincent's life...and his own?")
* Chess by Rhonda Collins ("What happens when Vincent loses a bet with Diana whose forfeit is that the loser must answer frankly whatever the winner asks?")
* Questions by Leslie Warstler ("How do Vincent and Diana respond to Jacob's perplexity at having no fur?")
* Three Can Play at This Game by Lena Wood ("what special insights does Diana's four-year-old niece, Alexandra, have about Vincent? A sweet and perceptive story.")
* Two Solitudes by Jena Snyder ("A tale of isolation transformed into joy; and "Games": a wicked, raunchy, funny tale of the games criminals...and lovers...sometimes play.")
* When Man Meets Beast by Inez Paskal ("A novelette in which psychological forces compel Vincent-disastrously!-to do what he really wants! Part one of two.")
* poetry by Sandie Dapoz, Maxine Mayer, Melissa Cook, Roxanne Koogler, Pat Farrar, Gloria Jones, Roz Levinson
* Art by Lena Wood, Jan Durr, Kriss Farver, Phyllis Berwick, Vickey Brickle-Macky, Nan Dibble, Jane Freeman, Sandy Tew.
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
Phoenix 3 was published in 1993 and contains 176 pages. Art Information: Jan Durr, Pat Farrar, Kriss Farver, Rosemarie Hauer, Jackie Kapke, Inez Paskal, Sandy Tew.
Contents: 
*Where Man Meets Beast, conclusion by Inez Paskal
* Always Possibilities by Janet Kilbourne
* Another Life by Jacqueline Kapke (sequel in issue #6)
* The Power of Night by Rhonda Collins 
* Where Man Meets Beast 2 by Inez Paskal
* Duty by Maxine Meyer
* Masquerade by Gloria Jones
* poetry by Sandie Dapoz, Roxanne Shearer Koogler, Dibble, and Mayer, Gloria Jones and Pat Farrar
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
==Issue 4==
Phoenix 4 was published in 1993 and contains 190 pages. Art Information: Rosemarie Hauer (cover and illos); Jan Durr, Kriss Farver, Sandy Tew, Lena Wood, and Marsha Young. Poems by Melissa Cook Baird, Dibble, Mayer, Gloria Jones, and Roxanne Shearer Koogler.
Contents:
* A Distant Inner Galaxy by Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub
* Power of Night by Rhonda Collins
* Dustbowl Cafe by Maxine Mayer (and Nan Dibble?)
* other fiction by Ron Holla, Michelle Wilson, Lena Wood
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4==
==Issue 5==
Phoenix 5 was published in 1994 and contains 156 pages. 
The art is by Sandy Chandler Shelton, Marsha Young, Jan Durr, Dragon, Sandy Tew, Rita Klemp, and Rosemarie Hauer (cover). It includes a color plate frontispiece by Victoria Brickle-Macky. 
It also contains poetry by Dibble, Melissa Cook Baird, Sandie Dapoz, and Roxanne Shearer Koogler.
 
* Tyger, Tyger by C. Rhonda Collins ("Rhonda Collins' expansion of the pivotal episode "In the Forest of the Night," Rolley and Vincent, in their belief that all hope is lost, have more in common than either of them knows....")
* All That I Have by Janet Kilbourne
* Promises to Keep by Janet Kilbourne ("Diana persuades Vincent to do with her what he'd never dared do with Catherine....")
* Veritas by Nan Dibble (" Diana knows a secret she doesn't dare tell Vincent... a secret that's eating her up alive; a secret she can keep only by retreating into a silence Vincent won't tolerate.")
* Tunnel Rat by Ann R. Brown ("Young Jacob finds an unwholesome playmate, an embittered, crippled street kid who seems immune to the tunnels' magical prospect of belonging.")
* Lisa's Back by Jackie Kapke ("The dancer's return to the tunnels sparks Diana's jealousy... and leads Diana's relationship with Vincent to a new level of intimacy.")
* The Beast Within by Ron Holla (""The Beast Within," the beast in question... is Diana's rage after her sister, Susan, is attacked.")
* Kindred Spirits by Nan Dibble and Maxine Mayer ("Just as Diana and Vincent begin to discover love, Snow and Gabriel return, seeking revenge: they're vampires!")
* Kilkenny Cats by Jena Snyder ("A substantial excerpt from Jena Snyder's B&B-based novel "Kilkenny Cats," the road to love for Megan/Diana and Tomas/Vincent isn't made any smoother because he's fully human: he's on the run from the police and the IRA... and he's the prime suspect in her investigation of a series of brutal murders!")
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5==
==Issue 6==
Phoenix 6 was published in 1995 and contains 145 pages. Art information: Art by Rosemarie Hauer, Jan Durr, and Klemp. Poetry by Maxine Mayer, Dibble, Rita Klemp, Baird."
* Journey's End by Rhonda Collins (also in Beauty and the Beast)
* Similarities by Lydia Bower
* Rightfully Mine by Lydia Bower
* A Parent's passing by Jackie Kapke
* The Crusade by Melissa Baird and Marsha Young
* Distant Thunder by Jackie Kapke
*Wither Thou Goest by Gloria Jones
* Another Life by Jackie Kapke (sequel to a story in issue #3)
* Copycat by Lena Wood
* Legacy by Nan Dibble
* Thoughts Beyond Imagining by Nan Dibble
* Sebastian by Nan Dibble
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 6==
 
==References==
Category:Beauty and the Beast Anthology Zines Category:Beauty and the Beast Het Zines
Category:1990s