Progressions

Progressions is a slash and gen 259-page anthology by Merle Decker. It contains art by Merle Decker, Suzan Lovett, Caren Parnes, Maureen B. and Gayle F.
Half the content is K/S (mature) and the other half deals with the friendship relationship between Kirk & Spock.
==The Author's Foreword==
==Contents==
Story summaries by Gilda F.:
* Progressions, poem by Flora Poste (1)
* A Learning Experience by Lanora Moore [sequel to Companion: The Rest of the Story by Pamela Rose] (Spock waits above in their spacecraft while Kirk attempts to lead a civilization away from slavery by influencing its leading philosopher.) (5)
* And All the Dreams Have Turned to Dust...And Back to Dreams Again by Lynn Syck and Laurel Ridener (Kirk is forced to join a band of rebels when he goes to the ransom point to pick up a captured Spock, and finds him critically injured.) (53)
* Inside His Mind, poem by Jamie Lareson (76)
* Resurrection One, poem by Alayne Gelfand (77)
* Chimera by Susan K. James (Spock says nothing about his increasing attraction to Kirk when both are invited to Vulcan by Spockʼs parent in an attempt to find him a new bondmate after his aborted pon farr.) (78)
* To the Dark Tower Came	by Merle Decker (Pre K/S: Spock goes after Kirk who is thrown into an interdimensional vortex by the inhabitants of the planet they were surveying.) (117)
* And In This Dream by	Dovya Blacque (After his ordeal in Janice Lesterʼs body, Kirk begins having dreams of making love to a tall, dark-haired woman... as a woman. NOTE: This is the same story as "A Strange & Beautiful Flower" in A Gathering of Blacque.) (143)
* untitled poem by Alayne Gelfand (173)
* Trial by Desire, poem by Robin Hood (174)
* Till Morning Comes by Susan K. James (175)
* Dark Interlude, poem by Meg Fine (179)
* Pentecost	 by Nancy Kippax and Beverly Volker (Pre K/S: Spock must keep Kirk alive until the Enterprise returns after his captain is severely burned while on a planet survey.) (181)
* Spock's Box by Poison Pen, Ink (also in Aftermath) (A/U: Spock reminisces about every woman he has had to kill in order to make Kirk his own.) (213)
* Beyond Trust by Ginna LaCroix (M/U: Kirk makes plans to destroy Komack when the admiral threatens them after he discovers that Kirk and Spock are lovers.) (218)
 
*Spirit, poem by Robin Hood (inside back cover)
==Sample Interior Gallery==
Image:progressions1.jpg|author's notes, photocopy
Image:progressions2.jpg|Merle Decker, photocopy
Image:progressions8.jpg|Maureen B. for And in this Dream, photocopy
Image:progressions9.jpg|Maureen B. for And in this Dream, photocopy
Image:progressions3.jpg|Merle Decker for A Learning Experience, photocopy
Image:progressions4.jpg|Merle Decker for A Learning Experience, photocopy
Image:progressions5.jpg|sample text, photocopy
Image:progressions6.jpg|Merle Decker for Chimera, photocopy
Image:progressions7.jpg|Gayle F for "The Broken Mask" photocopy
Image:progressions10.jpg|Suzan Lovett for Pentecost, photocopy
Image:progressions11.jpg|Suzan Lovett for Pentecost, photocopy
Image:progressions12.jpg|Caren Parnes for Beyond Trust, photocopy
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:1985 Zines