The Red Circle: Hunting-Ground

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Title: The Red Circle: Hunting-Ground
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: And some hunters completely miss the target.

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She’d burgled Prince’s Skating Club easily; her dramatic black feather-boa ensured that any witnesses would remember that detail, not her face.

On the Brixton bus she passed the swag to her associate and then “fainted” dramatically, ensuring all the attention whilst he left unnoticed.

“And Mam wanted me to be a clerk!” Jimmy laughed as they split the loot afterward.

Discussion Post: The Red Circle

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Red Circle and the chosen topic is Hairstyles, Beards and Moustaches.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Red Circle

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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.



The Raspberry Room

By Karin Gottshall


Note from Rachel: It must have been nightmarish for Mrs. Lucca to remain hidden in that room, never sure when violent disaster might overtake her husband or herself. I hope that she had a memory like the one described in this poem, of a refuge where - through blood and struggle - she could feel safe at last.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the hay(na)ku.

( 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, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, 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 Red Circle in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Red Circle: Waxing One's Moustache

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Canon Story: The Red Circle
Title: Waxing One’s Moustache
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: "You arranged an affair for a lodger of mine last year," she said — "Mr. Fairdale Hobbs." “...even your modest moustache would have been singed."


“It’s a… ‘charming’… little moustache, Holmes.”

Holmes scowled. “Mrs. Hudson and I were undercover. With insufficient time for completing our toilets.”

Watson’s laughter burst forth.

“Sorry!”

He gestured at their landlady.

“But Mrs. Hudson’s teasing you too! Wearing that ridiculous fake mousta—!”

Watson paused.

“Oh...”

He rose.

“Spend the night at my club?”

“If you would,” said Mrs. Hudson calmly.

The Red Circle: Wagner Night at Covent Garden

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Canon Story: The Red Circle
Title: Wagner Night at Covent Garden (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I cannot imagine how I could have managed to contract a head cold so quickly.  As soon as the case had been concluded I began to sneeze violently.  I assured Holmes I would make my own way back to our rooms and ask Mrs Hudson to make me a hot toddy.  I am equally impressed with how rapidly I recovered.

The Red Circle: Printing Exercise

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Canon Story: The Red Circle
Author: godsdaisiechain
Title: ​A Printing Exercise
Rating: G

They missed Wagner’s second act in Covent Garden, but Holmes, unusually, seemed sanguine about the loss.  He’d been working on a series of individual words printed on paper in violet and coquelicot hues, torn off against the side of a ruler.

Unfortunately, Watson wandered in before Holmes had finished his arrangement.

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