The Veiled Lodger: Starting Over

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Title: The Veiled Lodger: Starting Over
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  Mrs. Ronder wasn’t the only participant of that tragedy who needed to move to a new town.
                                                                                                                                                                                
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He was the biggest damn dog I ever seen. Said ‘is people was dead and could he stay with our pack.

Boss-dog challenged him, a course – the big bloke just patted ‘im and bowled ‘im over.

No one messes with us no more – humans run when they see King, leaving butcher shop doors open and all.

A funny bark too.

The Veiled Lodger: Origins

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Canon Story: The Veiled Lodger
Rating: Gen

“How can I thank you?”
“Remember my words. Share them with one as you were.”
“The English translation? ‘Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.’”
“You mayn’t see your friend again, Sigerson. He mayn’t forgive your deception. Nevertheless, you are strong, irreplaceable. Now,” he grinned, “shall we, as the Americans say, paint the Llhasa town red?”

Discussion Post: The Veiled Lodger

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Veiled Lodger and the chosen topic is Circuses.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Veiled Lodger

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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.



Carrion Comfort

By Gerard Manley Hopkins



Thank you so much to Rachel - a wonderful choice.


Here is also a new poetry form to try: the tricube.


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

...the tricube is a newer form and relatively unknown. Plus, it’s fun and easy to learn. This mathematical poem was introduced by Phillip Larrea.

Here are the rules of tricubes:

Each line contains three syllables.
Each stanza contains three lines.
Each poem contains three stanzas.

So we’re talking cubes in mathematical terms (to the third power). No rules for rhymes, meter, etc. Just three, three, and three.


Here is my example, inspired by the Doctor's story - specifically those... vivid... descriptions of the lady who shares my profession:


A charming,
and clever
detective…

A thick-necked,
hairy-lipped
hack writer.

Poem by
a ‘buxom
landlady’.



But you do not have to use this 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, barzelletta, 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, débat, décima, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, 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, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Veiled Lodger in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Veiled Lodger: Freak of Nature

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Canon Story: The Veiled Lodger
Title: Freak of Nature
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...the thing which the lion had left.”


“He might as soon have loved one of the freaks—”

George threw the Strand down.

“Charming!”

Nellie tutted. “Don’t be hard on her. Losing beauty when you’ve been born beautiful, well…”

“She was never as beautiful as you though.”

Nellie frowned. “Truly?”

George grinned, and leant forward to stroke her beard. “I think, my love, someone is fishing for compliments.”

The Veiled Lodger: A Deterrent

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Canon Story: The Veiled Lodger
Title: A Deterrent (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I understand from Holmes someone has been trying to gain access to my papers.  I have given Lestrade the information, and he has overseen a change of locks for our rooms, and between us we have stored the papers in flame-proof boxes.  I have displayed prominently a drawing of a cormorant which should be sufficient deterrent to any such persons.
 

The Veiled Lodger: The Ocelot Writes

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Canon Story: The Veiled Lodger
Title: The Ocelot Writes
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
As has become the custom, the Ocelot has written an entry for this particular story.

It is some years since I first began to assist Mr Holmes and Dr Watson with their cases.  Over time we have been joined by a number of other creatures and our team has been enhanced by their presence and attributes.  Please join with me in raising a toast to Mouselet, the Sloth, the Ferret, Inky Quill and Aemelia Vole.