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Artwork accompanying the story "Desert Heat" by Gayle F. Appeared first in the fanzine "The The Sensuous Vulcan," then in Naked Times #2, and later in The Cosmic Collected). The story can now be read at the K/S Archive. You can learn more about the story and the artwork at Fanlore: Desert Heat:
"The story is beautifully written and rings absolutely true to the characterization of Kirk and Spock as seen on aired Trek. There is no excessive hand-wringing on Kirk’s part, and even now almost thirty years after it was published, it still retains its power to impress with its beauty and eroticism. Gayle was the inventor of Spock’s pointed tongue, but more importantly she’s the person to thank for a Vulcan’s double ridges, almost universally accepted today as fan canon. Of that Gayle says: “I wanted to do something both alien and sexy.” I would say she succeeded. Her illos brought her vision to life, and were printed in red in The Sensuous Vulcan."
