Shoscombe Old Place: Disturbed

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Title: The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place: Disturbed
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: PG (blood)
Warning: Macabre crack
Summary: I clearly seem to have my mind on a particular genre these days.

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“Sir Robert.” Holmes stood looking out, white-faced. “Perhaps you should not have interred your sister in that particular sarcophagus.”

“How dare you disturb her rest!”

I intercepted Norbertson at the doorway – and all three of us witnessed a spindly wraith rising from John Mason’s corpse, blood staining her mouth and shroud. “Oh, brother, dear!” it trilled.

Holmes and I fled.

Shoscombe Old Place: Handy

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Canon Story: Shoscombe Old Place
Rating: Gen

“Thank you for being my ‘Handy Guide to the Turf,’ Watson.”
“You’re welcome, but you do yourself a disservice, Holmes. You could write your own.”
Mrs. Hudson snatched Holmes’s cigarette, which was burning a hole in the curtain.
“Be gone, you two,” she ordered, “until after the Landladys’ Book Club and Tea.”
“The Handy Guide to Being Turfed!” I cried.

Discussion Post: Shoscombe Old Place

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is Shoscombe Old Place and the chosen topic is Gambling.

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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: Shoscombe Old Place

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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.



Amaryllis

By Edwin Arlington Robinson



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

Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:

I recently discovered a poetic form called shadorma… that I had no record of in my two poetic form handbooks… Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines respectively. Simple as that. Also, you can link multiple shadorma (shadormas? shadormae?)...



Here is my example:


Playing cards:
I like Gin Rummy.
But here in
Baker Street,
The most appropriate game
Is always Patience.




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, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by Shoscombe Old Place in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Shoscombe Old Place: Focus, Mrs. Hudson, Focus

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Canon Story: Shoscombe Old Place
Title: Focus, Mrs. Hudson, Focus
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope…


“Dust. Glue. Blood. Onion gravy..?”

Mrs. Hudson looked up from the microscope.

“Mr. Holmes has gathered quite a range of stains on these trousers, Bessie. Better fetch the alcohol.”

Bessie looked scandalised. “But… it’s only mid-morning.”

“Alcohol for the stains, dear.”

Mrs. Hudson stared down the eyepiece again and sighed.

“Oh, I don’t know though. Perhaps bring the gin too.”

Shoscombe Old Place: Beating The Odds

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Canon Story: Shoscombe Old Place
Title: Beating The Odds (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I can understand the thrill of trying to beat the odds; it is something I have indulged in often.  There remains the risk of over-stretching oneself, and losing everything one holds dear.  The police and coroner were lenient, but a man who is prepared to deny the death of a loved one has already begun to lose touch with humanity.