Reading Room IX - Fusion Stories - Poison Apples by Pamela Rose

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Title: Poison Apples Author: Pamela Rose Pairing: B/D Link to story: Poison Apples Link to fusion story: The Wicker Man

I managed to watch The Wickerman film last night, and was amused to see that it was that Edward Woodward, playing what can best be described as another pesky policeman... *g*

Poison Apples is based around the Robin Hardy film The Wicker Man, though now that I've seen the film as well as read the story I wouldn't say that it was properly a fusion story at all - though it's not quite a "cross-over" either (so maybe this is a transition-review, between our last "Fusion" theme, and the next "Crossover" theme... *g*). Poison Apples is actually set some years after the original film - a young man has disappeared on Summerisle, and whilst Doyle is recovering from a burst appendix, Bodie is sent alone to investigate. The next thing Doyle knows is that Bodie has resigned, and Cowley has forbidden him to follow - he's sure that Bodie will be "back in his own sweet time... and he'll wish he'd taken the long way round." Doyle, of course, follows anyway...

( The story is rather divided into parts... )