Prosfic rec - Rachid by Lainie Stone

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Title: Rachid
Author: Lainie Stone
Link to story: Not online
Source: ProsLib CD

Just read this tonight, and I'm all happy-in-the-glow somehow, so I thought I'd better share it! This story was lovely! I really liked it! If you have any interest at all in AU Doyle-type/Bodie-type slash, based on other roles they've played, then do go and read it now!

Rachid is based, of course, on MS's character in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" - which movie/screenplay was actually written by Brian Clemens, and contains the wise words: "Trust in god - but tie your camel first"! Now where have we heard that before?! More importantly, it also contains MS as a swashbuckling sailor from the exotic Far East - and in the story by LS he meets a character who looks remarkably like Bodie, and makes me believe even more happily in reincarnation...

I read it all the way through in a sort of mock-Rachid accent, without being thrown into the modern world once, and LS also managed the trick of making me care for these characters, where I normally would be reading un-B/un-D with a sort of tolerance. So yeay!

Has anyone else read it and liked it? Hated it? Anything in between..? *g*