This Sunday for 60 for 60: The Musgrave Ritual

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Oh, here we go! After a couple weeks of lesser stories, we're back with a true classic that is absolutely jam-packed with Holmesian goodness: The Musgrave Ritual. Forced into cleaning up their rooms, Holmes digs through his papers and finds the remnants of an important early case. What better time to give Watson a little history lesson, in more ways than one?

Haven't joined us for 60 for 60 before? We'd love to have you jump in too! Everyone is welcome. You can learn more here (including the schedule), but the basics are easy: read the story, then write a 60 word ficlet inspired by it. That's it! It's fun, it's quick and you'll love reading both the wonderful classic canon and the terrific variety of fic we all come up with. Come have fun with us! See you Sunday!

Multiple Fics: His Last Bow, The Lion's Mane, The Mazarin Stone and The Missing Three-Quarter

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I return with catch-up fics! Sorry for the dropping in and out.

Canon Story: His Last Bow
Author: shouldboverthis
Rating: G 
Warnings: None

I have grown rusty in my dotage. It should have been as easy to remove the bastard American ‘slang’ from my mental attic as it was to remove the wretched beard from my chin, but to my horror, I found the words of our American cousins and the sounds of their flat vowels dropping from my mouth for months.

Canon Story:  The Lion's Mane
Rating: G (Implied Holmes/Watson)
Warnings: None

To my sorrow, Watson could never be persuaded to share my little cottage with me in our declining years as I had long hoped. A lasting sense of propriety governed his actions, for what might have seemed natural--the sharing of a flat by two men of limited means—would appear odd for two comfortably situated retired men.

Canon Story:  The Mazarin Stone
Rating: G and PG respectively
Warnings: Suggestion of impropriety in second and Holmes/Watson
Author's Notes:  Two, unrelated

How many times have I, his dearest friend, been the victim of Holmes’ ‘practical jokes’? I fear that it has aged me terribly. I have warned him that someday this penchant for revealing his solutions to clients in the most dramatic way possible will send some poor soul into an apoplectic fit and he will have blood on his hands.

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Though there were rumors about Holmes’ engagement of Billy as a live-in pageboy in which the word pederasty featured in hushed tones, I knew that there was nothing in them. Rumors had abounded about our relationship as well when we shared the flat. I knew for a fact that Holmes’ taste ran towards a more mature, military type of man.

Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: Two, unrelated

How delighted I was that Holmes found a better use for his syringe in the case I came to call ‘The Missing Three-Quarter,’ than its previous purpose. For in using it in aid of a case, I knew that he had truly exorcised its hold and it had become but one more tool in his arsenal, no longer his master.

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Holmes on a bicycle is a remarkable sight, for he seems to be made entirely of jutting angles: pointy-toed shoes on the pedals, bony knees rising and falling, sharp elbows sticking out like a wind-up contraption, long back in a straight line as he leans forward over his handlebars, completed by his beaked nose like the prow of a ship.

Two Cach-Up Fics: The Greek Interpreter and A Case of Identity

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Two more that I seem to have missed--but now I think that I am only missing Hound and I'm not quite up to re-reading that at the moment.

Canon Story: The Greek Interpreter
Author: shouldboverthis
Rating: G
Warnings: None

For all of his dismissal of women and his admission of being beaten by only one, on many an occasion Holmes would encounter women whose fortitude he admired. Although he did not meet her in person, he long maintained that Miss Sophy Kratides effected a revenge worthy of the greatest heroes in the ancient plays and poems of her country.

Canon Story: A Case of Identity
Rating: G
Warnings: Sexism and abuse of Freudian theories

In later years, when the theories of Sigmund Freud came to dominate the field of alienism I, rather uncharitably, wondered if Miss Sutherland had recognized more of her stepfather than any of us thought, even if unconsciously, for it seemed well-nigh impossible for me to believe that even with his precautions and her poor eye-sight she should be so deluded.