One recent fannish trend that's spreading like wildfire is the writing of pornography. For years slash fandom was conducted behind closed doors, but suddenly, everyone seems to be doing it. When paid up members of the Women's Institute are writing slash -- this means you, Mrs J___ R___ of Suffolk -- and respected medieval historians -- Dr KL M______ of Cambridge -- you know it's respectable. Plokta's concern is that slash writing always sticks to well/trodden subjects like the Professionals or Starsky and Hutch. We think there's scope for far more unusual erotic stories, and we offer the following as ideas for budding pornographers.

Ten Slash Stories We'd Like to See

• Darth Vader/Chewbacca (pant pant pant pant woof)
• Colonel Brandon/Dashwood (Sensual Sensibility or what?)
• Skippy/Flipper (glugglugglugglug...)
• Famous Five Slash (with lashings and ginger beer)
• Magic Roundabout slashùbut which to choose? The Mr Rusty/Spring Zebedee? "Boing Boing Boing BoooiiiiiinnnGGGG!" Or the interspecies hermaphrodite Brian/Dougal? Or those famous lesbians, Florence/Ermintrude? "Time for bed," said Zebedee.
• David/Goliath ("God, I've never seen one as big as that before!")
• Frodo/Gollum ("I never thought of wearing the One Ring there, precioussss")
• Orinoco/Uncle Bulgaria ("Womble to your partners...")
• Energizer Bunny/Ariston (Goes on...and on... and on... and on...)
• Snoopy/Garfield (real Slash fiction. Slash....slash....slash...)