The Blanched Soldier: It’s All in How You Say It

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Title: The Blanched Soldier: It’s All in How You Say It              
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Postulation in progress.
Summary:  That’s one way to serve a red herring. Crossover with Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody mysteries.
                                                                                                                                                                                
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“Cleverly written, Holmes.”

“And the literal truth. Mrs. Amelia Peabody is the wife of Professor Emerson; both are experts on all things Egyptian.”

Watson nuzzled his clandestine spouse. “So when I left you for 3 days to attend Mrs. Peabody’s lecture in London and missed out on Mr. Dodd’s visit…”

Holmes laughed. “You had indeed deserted me for a wife.”

Canon Story: The Blanched Solider: Unless

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Canon Story: The Blanched Soldier
Rating: Gen
Author’s Note: An idea for an AU to fulfill my ‘Suspense’ Bingo square. If you have tips/advice/suggestions about writing suspenseful scenes/stories (or things that you think work well from a reader’s viewpoint), feel free to leave them in the comments. I can use all the help I can get.

“…deserted me for a wife…”
Anything to silence that editor, damn fool, clamouring for what Watson’d promised.
But my scribbling’s a welcome distraction from the ticking clock: on Saturday the person I know as John Watson, but whom the press, police give another name, swings from a hangman’s noose for the crime of believing a wife’s, not his, flattery.
Unless…

Discussion Post: The Blanched Soldier

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Blanched Soldier and the chosen topic is The Boer War.

Well, this was a barrel of laughs… It’s a complex subject of course, so best to treat this post just as a starting point. And best to be aware it can be a pretty distressing subject, especially with regard to children dying in the concentration camps.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Blanched Soldier

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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.



Lost in the Hospital

By Rafael Campo


Note from Rachel: Although Mr. Godfrey Emsworth seemed to have disappeared, it was those who loved him and feared for his life who were more truly lost. This poem expresses that experience.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the clogyrnach.


( Definition and Example )

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, clogyrnach, 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 Blanched Soldier in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Blanched Soldier: Unsightly

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Canon Story: The Blanched Soldier
Title: Unsightly
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate…”


“Mr. Emsworth…”

Holmes hesitated.

“I often use theatrical makeup. Perhaps I could teach you some techniques..?”

Young Emsworth smiled, and shook his head. “Mr. Holmes, you have given me back my friend, my freedom and my future. When I think of those poor devils back in that hospital—”

His expression became more serious.

“I can cope with a few stares.”

The Blanched Soldier: Unimpressed

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Canon Story: The Blanched Soldier
Title: Unimpressed (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Lestrade was not impressed at being referred to as my wife.  I was not impressed at the reasons Holmes stated for my being the ideal helpmate.  I can only assume fear of the dire consequences if he had said anything untoward regarding Mrs Hudson caused him to ignore her entirely.  The man should not be let loose with a pen.