The Devil’s Foot: What He Saw

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Title: The Devil’s Foot: What He Saw
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: What visions could drive some men into permanent insanity?

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The disgust on Watson's face showed what he thought of my recklessness. Without a word he rose and walked out of the cottage.

I couldn’t speak. I’d driven him away forever this time. I’d never see him again –

I was seized, dragged.

And as the horror lifted from my mind I saw him gasping, lying beside me in the grass.

The Devil's Foot: Mrs. Sterndale

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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Rating: Gen
Content Note: Noir style
Summary: Someone else is pretty pleased about Holmes's version of justice.

“Johnny.”
I blinked. Did the devil’s foot still linger in my veins?
“My husband confessed?”
“Sterndale?!”
“I like energetic men, or don’t you remember, Johnny?”
“You’re hard to forget, Susanna.”
“Mister Holmes let him go? Good. I liked Brenda. The brother?” She grimaced.
“You’re looking well.”
She winked and blew a smoke-ring. “Wait ‘til you see me in widow’s weeds.”

Discussion Post: The Devil's Foot

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Devil’s Foot and the chosen topic is Mental Illness.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Devil's Foot

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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.



My Life’s Calling

By Deborah Digges


Note from Rachel: One could ask Mr. Holmes why he felt compelled to light a fire beneath that poison, but that is who Mr. Holmes is. Yet I wonder if, amid the confusion of his hallucinating brain, he might have regretted everything of hearth and home that he came so close to losing -- regretted the recklessness and the self-destruction. Perhaps, in the end, he stood on a cliff side in Cornwall after surviving the flames and took a good look at himself.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: stream of consciousness.

( Definition and Example )

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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Devil’s Foot in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Devil's Foot: Hum

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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Title: Hum
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I have no idea what backward sweep of memory had brought the matter fresh to his mind…


Perhaps, thought Holmes, he should be more supportive of Watson’s stories. Suggest some cases!

What about..?

(“Come, friends…”)

Holmes winced, and attempted to concentrate.

Or maybe...

(“Po—oo—or, wand’ring—”)

Or… The Cornish Horror!

Holmes frowned.

Where had that come from? He—

(“Tarantara…”)

Holmes spun to face his housekeeper.

“Mrs. Marshburn! Could we at least move on from the Pirates of Penzance?”



A/N: The author has now been obsessed with ‘Pirates’ for 13 months and counting...

The Devil's Foot: Safety in Study

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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Title: Safety in Study (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

That was an experiment I never wish to repeat.  That Holmes thought it wise is clear indication he has not yet fully recovered.  Whilst he maintains physical and mental health can be fully separated, I shall continue to beg to differ.  At least his bizarre ideas about the origins of the Cornish tongue are not likely to get us killed.