The Final Problem: Failsafe

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Title: The Final Problem: Failsafe
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Suicide ideation. Also postulates a romantic relationship.
Summary: Holmes knew the one thing to write to keep Watson from following him.

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Pray give my greetings to Mrs. Watson

Two words, a blow across my face that jolted me from my insanity. I gripped the boulder, shaking, everything in me longing to throw myself into the abyss after my lover, the man I’d failed to protect.

Mrs. Watson.

Another depended on me. I had to survive. I had to return to London.

The Final Problem: Worse

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Canon Story: The Final Problem
Rating: Gen

The telegram fluttered to the floor.
“My dear, you look pale as a ghost! What is it?”
“I am afraid I must return to London at once.”
“Is it your husband?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, my dear, is he, I mean to say, did something—?”
“It is far worse than being a widow.”
“What is?”
“Being the wife of a widower.”

Discussion Post: The Final Problem

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Final Problem and the chosen topic is The Reaction to Holmes’ Death (and His Return).

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Final Problem

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative (though ‘delightful’ is perhaps not the right word this week) 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.



After great pain, a formal feeling comes

by Emily Dickinson



Thank you so much to Rachel. A difficult time but we shall all carry on together.


Here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the renga. (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 Final Problem in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


And please do join me next week for my Problem Page and Poetry Corner. All forms of poetry will still be welcome but I will also be answering comments regarding any personal problems. Love, work, household hints—believe me, I have seen and done it all (and if I haven’t, Mrs. Turner definitely has) and I am ready and willing to offer my advice. So feel free to discuss any problem you care to, from Christmas Day onwards!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Final Problem: The End

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Canon Story: The Final Problem
Title: The End
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G



I kept both notes: Holmes’s amongst my personal possessions; Moriarty’s thrust deep into my late friend’s records.

When Holmes returned, I reread his ‘last’ message with a mixture of sadness and joy.

And I read Moriarty’s final words with almost pity. As he wrote the lies about the dying woman, he himself was approaching his end.

Did he know? Perhaps.

The Final Problem: Sorrow

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Canon Story: The Final Problem
Title: Sorrow (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Words cannot adequately reflect my feelings at this time.  I know Holmes did not blame me for my actions, and yet I cannot stop the recriminations running through my mind.  How could I not know it was a trick, even if one I was guaranteed to fall for?  All that remains is to mourn the death of my closest friend.