The Sussex Vampire: A Dog’s Life

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Title: The Sussex Vampire: A Dog’s Life
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack.
Summary: ACD would be on a dozen SPCA warning lists today.
                                                                                       
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“The boy stuck me and then my legs were bad.” Carlo looked behind where his tail still could not wag.

Roy growled. “My master started smelling like an ape. He teased and hurt me too. Humans! I say we leave.”

“Where should we go?”

The wolfhound grinned. “I have an idea. Let’s go down to Dartmoor and terrorize the townsfolk!”

The Sussex Vampire: Watson's Possible Rugby Nicknames

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Story: The Sussex Vampire

Rating: Teen for Innuendo & Language

Summary: ‘Big Bob’ Ferguson probably isn’t the only one with a rugby nickname.

A.N.: I possess zero knowledge of rugby. Wikipedia says that scrum, maul, ruck, and sin-bin (really?!) are terms. Feel free to add your own in the comments.

1.      John ‘Put Your Head Next to Mine and We’ll Call It Scrumming’ Watson

2.      John ‘First-Rate Mauling, No Monkey Juice Required’ Watson

3.      John ‘I May Not Look Quite the Man, But I Can Still Tackle & Ruck ‘Til Dawn’ Watson

4.      John ‘One Helluva Sin-Bin’ Watson

5.      John ‘Only Three Continent, But Infinite Positions’ Watson

6.      John ‘Well, Somebody Explored my Possibilities Last Night’ Watson

Canon Discussion: The Sussex Vampire

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This week we’re having a look at The Sussex Vampire. 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 Sussex Vampire

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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 Parallelismus Membrorum.

( 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, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


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


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Sussex Vampire: Baby

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Canon Story: The Sussex Vampire
Title: Baby
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Warnings: Past infant death
Author's Notes: “I never get your limits, Watson,” said he. And once again I’ve given Holmes a traumatic childhood…


“I’ll never get your limits, Holmes. You were so good with the baby.” Watson looked thoughtful. “And you have no nephews, no nieces. No friends with children…”

“Your deduction, Doctor?” asked Holmes, looking up.

Watson hesitated. “A third Holmes brother. Who... didn’t survive infancy.”

“A sister.” Holmes returned to his writing. “With two protective older brothers, but who died anyway.”

Sussex Vampire: A Bad Night

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Canon story: Sussex Vampire
Tite: A Bad Night
Author: godsdaisiechain
Rating: G


Jacky sobbed himself to sleep, wishing he could just die.  Father was the only one who had ever loved him, and now father hated him, too.

That horrible woman had never cared a bit for him.

He never understood why he hadn’t been enough, why someone had hurt him and made him so pinched and mean and desperate.  Everything ached.

The Sussex Vampire: Letter to the Editor

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Canon Story: The Sussex Vampire
Title: Letter to the Editor (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Sir,

I wish to make use of your publication to contact those of my relatives who remain in the neighbourhood.  I return to London for a vacation at the end of the following month, arriving at the Port of London on the Matilda Briggs and thereafter staying at the Northumberland Hotel, where visitors will be welcome.

Yours,

Giant Rat
Sumatra