Sherlock60: The Story Continues... with "The Five Orange Pips"

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

This Sunday, 27th July, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Five Orange Pips.

It was a dark and stormy night...

And as Mrs. Watson (formerly the orphaned Miss Mary Morstan) is apparently at her mother's (hmm...) Watson is already at Baker Street when a client arrives for Holmes. John Openshaw has a strange tale to tell, of suspicious deaths and curious communications. Can Holmes solve the case before Mr. Openshaw shares the fate of his uncle and father?

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story based on it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

We also offer a second challenge: pick a character from ACD’s story and write a clerihew about them. You can choose to write a 60 and a clerihew, or you can do one or the other. (There's further information about posting on our profile.) Or you can just take part in the weekly discussion. All options are absolutely fine!

Hope to see you on Sunday ^^

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

vey minor point: my John Murray's Complete Short Stories has 'aunt'. Still rather unexpected; but if the aunt wasn't too well off, Mary might have felt she couldn't move in with her on returning to England.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Well, "mother" is Watson/ACD's original choice. It was changed to "aunt" by later editors. So "mother" is canon. And using "aunt" doesn't make sense anyway. In SIGN, Mary says she had no relatives in England (at this point in time I think England was being used to mean the whole of Britain).