Star Wars Episode 69: With One Hand Free

Star Wars Episode 69: With One Hand Free is a slash 50-page Star Wars Luke/Han anthology by Apple Cameron & Carmen Bizet.
==Summary==
From the authors: "As authors, we decided, being equally attracted to some of the basic story ideas, to run our stories in parallel, and see what happened. All developing from one afternoon of sushi, Star Wars, and other various other self-indulgences -- would our stories be the same? What would be different? Roughly, there's a storyline of celebration during or immediately following Star Wars, there's a story set in the dark chill of The Remote Ice World of Hoth(tm), and a story about the end of an empire. From two different authors, with a slightly different spin on things, and some direct contradictions between the two sets of works." Star Wars Episode 69: With One Hand Free 
==Contents==
* INTRODUCTION	by Apple Cameron (page 2)
* 	A CLASH OF ARMOR	by Apple Cameron (page 3) (During "Star Wars". Summary: On board the Death Star with time to kill and adrenaline pumping? What's a tourist-rebel to do? Excerpt: "It was dangerous, bad timing, and completely insane: they did it anyway. "Wildest dreams, huh, kid?" Solo whispered harshly. I'll show you wildest, he thought, hand covering the moan waiting at Skywalker's mouth. "More than you could imagine, maybe." They were nowhere, waiting, in the worst place in the galaxy.")
* 	(ELEVATOR) BATTLE MUSIC	 by Apple Cameron (page 5) (Post-"Star Wars". Summary: The Heroes of Yavin have a private...conversation in the elevator, on their way up to yet another celebration. Excerpt: "Look at you, kid!" Han was grinning. "We're heroes." Luke blushed, embarassed at the attention. "Yeah, well." They escaped into the lift alone. Luke caught Solo looking at him. "What are you going to do now?" he asked the older man.")
* 	YET ANOTHER DRUNKEN BOINK	by Carmen Bizet (page 8) (Post "Star Wars". Summary: Han and Luke get more than just a little tipsy, celebrating. One thing leads to another. Excerpt: "It wasn't that Han had tried to get Luke cross-eyed drunk, just that it didn't take much liquor to accomplish the task. Gods, he thought to himself, don't they hide stills on farms anymore? "An'then...we came in. We were movin'!" Luke was saying, recapping the last portion of the battle of Yavin for the ninth time. "The laser towers were goin', and were doin' at least 350 klicks --", he evidently thought that it would be helpful for his audience of one if he illustrated the maneuver physically. Perched unsteadily on the very edge of his seat, he thunked his elbows onto the table and smiled up at Solo blearily.)
* 	QUID PRO QUO	by Carmen Bizet (page 15) (Post "Star Wars". Summary: After all the celebrations, Han and Luke mourn lost friends and lovers, share their loneliness and more. Excerpt: "He was exhausted. And he had started to doubt whether or not he would ever get to sleep again for the rest of his life. He had tossed enough to pull the edges of the bedclothing from the mattress and now lay on his stomach, head turned to one side, clutching the corner of the pillow and trying not to replay in his head the way the cockpit of his X-wing had glowed briefly from the explosion of Biggs's fighter. In the midst of the celebration following the destruction of the Death Star, it had been easy to be joyful. His stomach was filled with good food, his eyes filled with light and sound and music, and his ears with the lauds and admiration of others. And of course, Han had personally taken responsibility for the task of getting him drunk. But, he hadn't fought it that hard, and until he returned to his makeshift quarters on Yavin moon, he had enjoyed the pleasantly woozy feeling that had wreathed his mind, pulling a silk veil over everything he saw.")
* 	COLD HANDS, WARM HEART by 	Apple Cameron (page 29) (During "The Empire Strikes Back". Summary: Luke and Han trapped one night on the Remote Ice World of Hoth and their own private miseries. Excerpt: "Cold. His hands and feet had been so cold, but now it wasn't so bad. The snow and the roar of wind must have calmed, or was it him? There was movement up ahead, and Luke lifted his head, or thought he did. Had Ben gone for help? He wondered. "Ben," he called softly. It might have been a noise, in the greater white. There was no further movement in the blind rage that was Hoth.")
* 	SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME	by Carmen Bizet (page 33) (During "The Empire Strikes Back". Summary: Luke and Han trapped one night on the Remote Ice World of Hoth, and their own private miseries. Excerpt: "The world had become very white, tinged with blue. Nothing else, though -- just the colors, or rather the absence of them. Nothing else existed. No sensation, no sound, no feeling at all. Oh, the cold had grown almost boring by that time -- he was chilled to the bone even before he had gone off to investigate that meterorite, and looking forward to warming up back at Base -- as warm as he would have gotten, which wasn't much. Living as long as he did with nothing but dun sand and blue sky, and oppressive heat, his body had taken a long, long time to acclimatize to the bone-brittling insanity that was Hoth.")
* 	IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT	by Apple Cameron (page 44) (During "The Empire Strikes Back". Summary: A wet night on Dagobah, Luke has reminiscing to do. Excerpt: "He tried to summon up Leia's face. Leia, who had kissed him, her lips warm and full against his mouth, yet with a strangely distant passion. Regardless of the distance, it had wiped the smug look off Han's face for a moment, in the medical center. But there had been something akin to pain, there, underneath, as he and Han sat for moments on seemingly opposite sides of a growing love for the ex-senator. For the woman who, for so many, was the beating heart of the Alliance. She certainly was for him.")
* 	EXITS AND ENTRANCES	by Apple Cameron (page 47) (Post "Return of the Jedi". Summary: Moments of transition, good-byes, hellos, many things put to rest. Excerpt: "This is the end, Luke thought, looking up through the trees at the stars. A beginning, too, but an end. A good-bye to many things: his father, his youth, his friends. He looked over, briefly, at Han and Leia and others by their bonfire, then back up. Leia. He wished he could have known their mother, known their father as more than just the frightening figure he had played in this fierce drama. He looked back again at his sister, at his best friend, at the love that twined between them. It would have been nice, just once, if he and Han had had...a little leisure time to enjoy each other. Just once. Say good-bye to that wish, too.")
==References==
Category:Star Wars Slash Zines
Category:1997 Zines