A Scandal in Bohemia: Her Notice

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Title: A Scandal in Bohemia: Her Notice
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: There were other women in this story besides the woman.
                                                                                       
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“Oh, miss, must I?” Tears in the slavey’s eyes.

“Very much so, Mary Jane.” Mrs. Watson smiled at the girl. “I’ll give you notice, of course, but you’ll go with an excellent reference straight to my friend Mrs. Pendleton. Now scrape.”

She’d see what kind of mud those slits picked up, and know when John abandoned her for Mr. Holmes.
 

A Scandal in Bohemia: A Trifle More

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Title: A Trifle More
Rating: Teen (for setting)
Summary: Holmes to Mary.
Author's Note: Last 60 words of my poly Holmes/Mary/Watson fic, A Trifle More, which is the full-length version of the one published for the Holmes_Minor September prompt. Probably cheating, I know.

Sleep was near, like a client oscillating on the pavement.
“I have neither the character nor society’s permission to tend to him as you do. And he is so conspicuously loved; his person, wardrobe, everything about him says so.”
“I act as any wife.”
“Indeed. I should have thought a little more.” I heard him smile. “Just a trifle more.”

Discussion Post: A Scandal in Bohemia

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is A Scandal in Bohemia and the chosen topic is Opera in the Victorian Era.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: A Scandal in Bohemia

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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.



Indian Summer

by Dorothy Parker



My grateful thanks to Rachel for her excellent choice of poem. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the Fib. (The link takes 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, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, 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 A Scandal in Bohemia in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

A Scandal in Bohemia: Wedding Ring

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Canon Story: A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: Wedding Ring
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ‘Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.’ 'Drive like the devil,' he shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the Church of St. Monica in the Edgware Road. Half a guinea if you do it in twenty minutes!'


Irene shook her head.

“In and out of that jeweller’s in minutes, but you chose a ring of the correct size and completely to my taste. Your powers of observation must equal those of Sherlock Holmes himself!”

“Really?” said Norton.

Irene burst into laughter, and Norton grinned. “I’ll buy you another.”

“No need...”

His wife smiled.

“I love this one.”

A Scandal in Bohemia: A More Relaxed Household

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Canon Story: A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: A More Relaxed Household (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Despite my complete happiness with Mary as my wife I sometimes long for Mrs Hudson’s control of her household servants.  She would not have tolerated Mary Jane’s slapdash ways as long as we have.  On the bright side, I am now able to have the occasional tobacco burn or ink on my cuffs without feeling I need to apologise profusely.