The Second Stain: Security

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Title: The Second Stain: Security
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Makes you wonder just how these guys got their trustworthy reputation.

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“The potentate letter.” Holmes sighed. “Another beryl coronet.”

I shook my own head with my friend. “Agreed. Surrounded by the finest top-of-the-line security devices and measures Her Majesty can provide, the first instinct of the keeper of such precious items…”

“Is to take it home and lock it in one’s own little safe. As if burglars wouldn’t find that easier!”

Canon Discussion: The Second Stain

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This week we’re having a look at The Second Stain. I’ve typed up a few thoughts and questions to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Second Stain

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

This week my featured form is the bref double.

( Definition and Example )

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, englyn, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Second Stain in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Second Stain: Mail

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: Mail
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: It has been written hurriedly… ...he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner. Always pause and think before sending…


Subject: Idiot Friends

Holmes,

next time you travel to Swansea, give me the drawer key first so I can retrieve my chequebook.

The laundry is refusing to relinquish my trousers.


Watson thrust the note at Billy.

“Send!”

Billy headed for the post office.

Watson sighed. Then scowled as he spotted the diagram of himself throttling Holmes.

“Damn. Forgot the attachment.”



[A/N: This 60 was partly inspired by rachelindeed’s comments on the last DANC discussion.]

The Second Stain: Advertisement

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: Advertisement (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

For all your cleaning products you can do no better than call at Martin’s on Crawford Street.  Amongst other items we stock Pears soap; Soapine, which will not injure hands nor fabric; and Dome boot polish, the tin with St Paul’s on the lid.  We have a number of suitable agents for stain removal, including kerosene for removing blood stains.