...A Handful of Snowflakes and Other Trek Tales

...A Handful of Snowflakes and Other Trek Tales is a het 82-page anthology of Star Trek: TOS fiction. The art is by M.L. Steve Barnes. It is a Spock/Chapel zine.
It was originally published in 1976, and reprinted at least once in that year.
Some of this edition's interior artwork also appeared in Grup #1-#4.
In the 1979 edition, there was art by Gayle F (frontispiece), Caro Hedge, and Michael Goodwin.
In the 1980s, the author gave Susan Crites permission to continue publishing the zine.Email to Morgan Dawn from Susan Crites regarding the signed agreement she had with 'Steve' Barnes to continue publishing, dated December 11, 2013.
In a 1995 issue of Media Monitor, it was noted that this zine had been in almost continuous print for nearly 20 years.
Author's comments from the original edition: "'There are as many kinds of love as there are people, some selfish, some unselfish, some good, some evil...' Herein, four tales of love...."
==The Eridani Triad Connection==
The title story almost made its premiere in a different zine. Judith Brownlee remembers: 
==A 1976 Reprint: The Author's Foreword==
The first paragraph of this, but not the second, were included in the initial pages of the 1979 reprint.
==Editorial: Original Issue==
==Editorial: 1979 Reprint==
Barnes wrote: "I wish to express my gratitude to Susan and Caro for having the faith to carry 'Snowflakes' into yet another reprint. People like them keep the spirit of the ST universe alive."
Crites wrote of collating this zine in November: 
From the editorial:
 
==Contents==
* The Price of a Handful Of Snowflakes, vignette, reprinted from Impulse #5 (1971). (This story was mentioned in Star Trek Lives! and discussed in To Slay or Not to Slay: Why We Write 'Get-em' Stories -- & Love 'em!.) (5)
* Vulcan Bride (poem) (reprinted from Grup #3) (12)
* I Need You, Baby, novelette (Author's introduction: "This story has been labeled 'too esoteric' for general enjoyment. By definition, I guess that means that it deals with truths that are revealed by the episodes in their proper order. I'll admit that there are several references to televised incidents, but too esoteric for Trek fans? Never!") (14)
* Spock Joined (poem) (49)
* Crucible (poem) (51)
* Almost a Legend, novelette (53)
* Remorse (poem) (reprinted from Grup #4) (80)
* Against the Fall of Darkness ("This is the first Star Trek story I ever wrote. At the time I put it down on paper I had not yet read a single fanzine story so if there is any similarity between it and any other writer's theme, I can honestly dismiss it as 'creative coincidence.' The story was accepted by a small zine on the Eastern Coast that promptly folded so I don't believe it has ever been in print. My husband has a soft spot in his heart for this particular work, he says it's my best—so, Don, this is for you. S.B.") (82)
==Excerpt==
"Spock had once said that we all make our own purgatories. And I find that once again his sensibilities have served him truly. For I live in one of my own making and the bitterness of it will last me all my days... He sits across the room now, that still face frozen perhaps forever in its stillest mask of all. Once or twice lately I have been aware of something, a look, a depth to those eyes. It has its antecedents in the eyes of an animal caught and held in a trap."
==Covers: Different Editions==
There are three editions of this zine, possibly more. The art in at least two is radically different.
File:handfulcover.jpg| front cover, original edition, 1976, art by M.L. "Steve" Barnes
File:Snowflake-2.jpg|front cover of a 1979 reprint, contains the art by Gayle F and Gerry Downes
File:Handful.jpg|front cover, another 1979 reprint
==Gallery: Original Issue -- All of the Art is by M.L. "Steve" Barnes==
File:handfulart1.jpg|inside art, original edition, frontispiece, "Alternate (Counter) Spock"
File:handfulart3.jpg|inside art, original edition, "Touching and Touched"
File:handfulart4.jpg|inside art, original edition, "James T. Kirk"
File:handfulart2.jpg|inside art, original edition, "T'Pring"
File:handfulart6.jpg|inside art, original edition
File:handfulart7.jpg|inside art, original edition
File:handfulart8.jpg|inside art, original edition
File:handfulart9.jpg|inside art, original edition
==Gallery: A 1979 Edition==
File:snowflake-2.jpg| 1979 edition, cover
File:snowflake-1.jpg|inside 1979 edition, art by Gayle F
File:snowflake-3.jpg|inside 1979 edition, art by Michael Goodwin
File:snowflake-4.jpg|inside 1979 edition, art by Michael Goodwin
File:snowflake-5.jpg|inside 1979 edition, art by Michael Goodwin
File:snowflake-6.jpg|inside 1979 edition, sample text
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==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1976 Zines