Coming this Sunday at Sherlock60: The Mazarin Stone

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Hello, friends! Welcome back. Let's have some fun. For this Sunday's Sherlock Holmes canon reading and writing pleasure, we'll be taking on The Mazarin Stone. Echoes of the past resurface when Holmes faces another would-be assassin, but the detective has no intention of stopping until the stone is found.

We'll be discussing the Granada TV adaptation of The Mazarin Stone as well on Sunday. You can catch it on YouTube and DVD.

Here are your completely optional prompts for MAZA. Feel free to use one, both, or neither.

Optional prompt #1: imitation

Optional prompt #2: Billy!

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! Thanks, see you Sunday!

3GAR, LADY, ILLU, REDC

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Canon Story: 3GAR
Title: Sentiment
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Bickering like an old couple is one of my favourite tropes to write.

“My, Mr Holmes, are we turning a little to the sentimental side?”
Mycroft wasn’t entirely sure how to interpret Jane’s comment, or whom it was directed at – himself, or his brother. He put down Watson’s report.
“You have read it?”
“Of course. I love to get the galley proofs. Oh Sir, I wish that just sometimes you were as sentimental.”


Canon Story: LADY
Title: Old Abrahams
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Funny office stories are too much of a temptation.

Old Abrahams was a spider – or a dynasty of them – living in the antechamber of Mycroft Holmes’s office, where Jane Moriarty resided. He became the synonym for her mood as, whenever the latter sank, she would try to kill the beast. Such occasions influenced the city’s criminal activity to such an effect that Abrahams’s wellbeing got its own filing cabinet.


Canon Story: ILLU
Title: Her Sentence
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Thought Jane deserved more cool half-world scenes. Now, what may have moved her to step into her sister's little footsteps...?


They had handled Kitty’s case with mildness, and yet the sentence could only be prison. She wished that it had been life-long, for what was she to do upon her release? Slowly she climbed into the police wagon.
A woman sat inside.
“Good morning, Miss Winter,” she said. “I thought you might be interested in a minor governmental accounting position.”


Canon Story: REDC
Title: Methods
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Jane isn't the one for technical knowledge, but she sure as hell has the contacts to make a lazy department a very uncomfortable place.

“Hypnotically soothing? I’d say hypnotically antiquated,” Mary Holder chuckled whilst filing away the latest of the Doctor’s reports. Kitty Winter shrugged.
“Everyone has their method. To Holmes it’s hypnosis, to Doctor Moriarty it’s employing us scum.”
“Exactly. If you’d be so kind as to go back to work now,” the freshly installed intercom system, one of Jane’s latest toys, snarled.