The Three Gables: X Marks the Slot

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Title: The Three Gables: X Marks the Slot
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  “…nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.”
                                                                                                                                                                                
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“Name?”

The plain middle-aged woman, dressed like the most priggish of school matrons, adjusted her spectacles. “Helena. Helena Flint. Grandpappa would call me Nellie. Most uncouth.”

The pop-eyed teller lugged over the safe-deposit box, dropped with a loud thump on the counter.

Doubloons, jewelry, coral, gold earrings, ruby-eyed skull medallions.

Helena smiled. “Grandpappa knew how to bury HIS treasure correctly.”

The Three Gables: Slightly

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Rating: Teen (i.e., someones are in the broom cupboard, but you can’t tell exactly what’s going on)
Warning: Holmes/Douglas Maberley
Author’s Note: Someone on the Sherlock Kink Meme has actually asked for Holmes/Maberley. Here’s my 60-word attempt. 

He rolled onto his back, reached for a cigarette. “How ‘bout an evening ramble?”
“It’s almost morning. Another dance in Trafalgar’s Square?”
He laughs. “We’ll wear masks. No one will know us.”
“All of London knows you, Douglas.”
“All of London will know you, Sherlock. One day.”
“You’re magnificent.”
“You, too. My last night in London. Let’s make more memories.”

Discussion Post: The Three Gables

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Three Gables and the chosen topic is Black Victorians. (‘Black’ used in the umbrella sense.)

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Three Gables

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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.

Usually at this point my housemaid Rachel, inspired by the week’s story, comes up with a poem for us all to read but she has suggested something a little different this time. And so today we are all going on an excursion to an apparently world famous music hall: ‘YouTube’, where we will listen to Miss Carly Simon sing ‘You’re So Vain’. (I will be providing a hamper of various foodstuffs for the trip. However, I must emphasise the gin is for my use only—if you wish to buy an alcoholic drink I believe a bar is available.)



The express train to YouTube can be caught here.




Everyone back safely? Splendid!

Though…

Where is Mrs. Small-Hobbit?

Yes, Mrs. Frankles?

Well, if you saw her having a final cider in the bar, why on earth did you not tell her we were leaving for the station?

Oh… Yes, I suppose I can agree she does tend to have an unfortunate effect on the railways but... Did you at least leave her your Bradshaw?

You did?

Fingers crossed then.




So let’s move on! Here is a new poetry form to try: the descort.


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

The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem.

A descort poem has different line lengths, meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for stanzas as well. In other words, no two lines in a descort should look like each other, and the same could be said for each descort.

Note: This is different than free verse, because even free verse may occasionally have similar line lengths and meter. However, descort is very intentional in its variability.


Here is my example:


Here
In the caliginous, crepuscular, comfortless gloom,
It’s not to hide my fading looks.
Mr. Holmes has shot out the bulbs.
(Fa la la la.)



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, descort, 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 Three Gables in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Three Gables: A Better Man

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Title: A Better Man
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G


Dear Dr. Watson—

Mr. Holmes has long demanded my admiration: unimpressed by social position; reluctant to judge by appearance.

So—your latest story. Joke? Another’s work?

Because that was not the man I met all those years ago.

And I read once, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Yours,

Lucy Hebron Munro



A/N: "I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being." [YELL]

The Three Gables: Staying Home

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Title: Staying Home (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

I have scarcely left our lodgings for the last few days.  Lestrade has had some days’ leave and although we had thoughts of perhaps taking a trip to Harrow, or somewhere similar, when it came to it we always decided there were more pressing matters to deal with at home.  I am not complaining, the time has passed most delightfully.