The Five Orange Pips: Closure

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Title: The Five Orange Pips: Closure
Author: gardnerhill                       
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  Truth, and nothing but the truth, is overrated.
                                                                                      
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“The truth, Watson.”

I looked at Holmes, slumped before the fire. Even I could have deduced from my own weary posture which case I recorded.

Holmes glared into the flames. “Do not write me rescuing Openshaw. I failed him.”

Heart aching, I touched pen to paper again.

And instead wrote the villains into a deadly storm.

Not saved, but avenged. 

The Five Orange Pips: Aunt Morstan

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Rating: Gen
Summary: Watson defends Aunt Morstan.
Author's Note: This is based on sanguinity's So Keen a Sympathy, which ends with former girlfriends Mary and Kate Whitney from "The Man with the Twisted Lip" going to the Continent together (with Watson's blessing) while Kate's husband is away in rehab.

“An aunt,” I repeated.

Holmes nodded. “No doubt an elderly aunt requiring a robust traveling companion to fully enjoy her tour of the Continent?”

“Precisely. A change’s as good as a rest. It will do them both a world of good.”

“Mrs. Watson is assured that you are in good hands whilst she’s away?”

“She’s every faith in Mrs. Hudson.”

Discussion Post: The Five Orange Pips

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Five Orange Pips and the chosen topic is The Thames Embankment.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Five Orange Pips

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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.



An Upper Chamber In A Darkened House

by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman


Note from Rachel: I think that the tragic end of young Mr. Openshaw will haunt Mr. Holmes for a very long time. This poem reminds us of that poor man, who stumbled upon old papers within his own house that he never understood and that ultimately led to his murder. As well as recalling his literal misfortunes, this poem suggests metaphorically that Mr. Openshaw’s memory has taken up residence in the darkest corners of Mr. Holmes’s mental attic.


Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: micropoetry. (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, free verse, 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 The Five Orange Pips in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Five Orange Pips: A Tight Spot

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: A Tight Spot
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G


Billy had been trapped now for three hours.

“I needed a hidden witness to the conversation, you see,” said Holmes.

Mrs. Hudson was extraordinarily calm.

“I understand that, Mr. Holmes. However, could you explain why you thought it was a good idea to hide my page up your chimney?”

“Well…” Holmes frowned. “I don’t think Dr. Watson would have fitted.”



A/N: ...the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney.

The Five Orange Pips: Passing The Time

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Passing The Time (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Since Mary is away visiting an old school friend and staying at her mother’s, I have taken the opportunity to spend a few days with Holmes.  Unfortunately the weather means we are forced to stay indoors, but at least I had the forethought to bring my novel.  Unlike Mary, Holmes is not given to passing the time with idle conversation.