The Stockbroker's Clerk: Birmingham New Street

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Stockbroker's Clerk
Title: Birmingham New Street
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
Author's Note: Inspired because like Watson I have frequently stood waiting for trains at this particular station.

As we stood in the station at Birmingham New Street, waiting for the train to take us back to London, I looked around at our fellow travellers.  Some were reading their papers and even commenting on the main news item.  What would they have thought if they knew they were but a few feet away from the real Hall Pycroft?

Comments

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Stations are such surreal places, aren't they? I love this certain feeling of transcience, and the little games of guessing where everybody else is going, why, and what is going on in their minds. You're expressing that feeling wonderfully here.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Secrets and journeys. ACD in a nutshell. Nice.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Although Holmes no doubt doesn't guess where everyone is going, but deduces both destination and purpose, we, like Watson, are content to indulge in idle speculation.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm amazed by the number of times Holmes and Watson do take the train somewhere.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

or a Garrideb! :))

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

I once had an experience where a family member was in the news for a time. It was the most surreal thing to read articles about them in the paper! It's neat to see Pycroft here having the same surreal experience only amplified as the stories are about himself. Very cool.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. A decidedly odd sensation. And last weekend I was once again standing on Birmigham New Street station, wondering what the stories of my fellow passengers were.