The Speckled Band: Hidden Depths

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Title: The Speckled Band: Hidden Depths
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Do not anger a houseproud woman.
                                                                                       
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“Mr. Holmes!”

A clatter. She’d found the damaged poker.

I turned to her. “I’m afraid that visitor–”

The tiny woman snapped the poker true to form, with nary a twist. “Hmph! Next time call me instead of mucking with it yourselves!”

We gaped as she went downstairs.

I cleared my throat. “We’d… best pay our rent on time, Holmes.”

The Speckled Band: That deadly reptile Trouserus snakeus

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Canon Story: The Speckled Band
Title: That deadly reptile Trouserus snakeus.
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Holmes/Watson; bed-sharing of the knocking up variety; phallic puns; crack.
Summary: The morning after the return journey from Stoke Moran.
Author’s Note: “Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper…” Also happy mother’s day to all the people who mother!
“Watson.”
“No, Holmes. Any damsel in distress will have to suffer through whatever murderous designs are upon her until nine o’clock. Good Lord!”
“No blows of my cane, just the nudge of my shaft, my dear fellow. Is it coming home at all?”
“Holmes!”
“Pity. I’ve roused your snakish temper when my aim was to spur other, equally serpentine, parts.”

Discussion Post: The Speckled Band

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Speckled Band, and the chosen topic is Exotic Animals in Victorian England.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Speckled Band

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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 go on 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.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.


Snake

by Emily Dickinson


Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the double dactyl. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)


But you do not have to use that form. 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, ballad, 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, Fib, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, 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 Speckled Band in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Speckled Band: A Night at the (Light) Opera

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Canon Story: The Speckled Band
Title: A Night at the (Light) Opera
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner…”
And father is a Major-General! (Author currently making her way through a Pirates of Penzance obsession.)


“It’s ridiculous!”

Holmes stared aghast at the stage.

“This Frederic’s birthday is apparently in February, but there are girls paddling on a beach! ‘Hardy little lasses’? There’s hardy and there’s dying from exposure.”

“I really don’t think the date is that important,” muttered Watson.

Holmes gave him a hard look.

“Gilbert and Sullivan have been a terrible influence on you.”

The Speckled Band: Aftermath

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Canon Story: The Speckled Band
Title: Aftermath (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I have never been very fond of snakes and our latest nocturnal adventures have not endeared them to me either.  I am not alone in my dislike, Holmes relating of the tale caused the housemaid to break two more teacups.  Dr Roylott should have chosen to bring home a mongoose instead.  Which reminds me, I am meeting Inspector Lestrade tomorrow.