The Empty House: Journeys End

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Title: The Empty House: Journeys End
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Romantic postulation.
Summary: Someday the true story can be told. But it is not this day.

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I stared at him in utter amazement. Then I seized his collar and bent him across the desk, tearing his trousers away so violently that buttons flew everywhere. “Feel how I have missed you,” I hissed…

I groaned and scratched the line out. I shifted my still-tender bottom on the chair. Not the truth, not in the Strand.

I fainted.
 

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, not convinced the Strand readers would approve.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Sell issues, or get the newsstands knocked over by morally upright Londoners? Decisions, decisions...

[debriswoman]

Yeah...may not be able to sneak that one past the editors...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Is there any platonic way to explain why one man tears another's trouser buttons off?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I do so love the phrase 'romantic postulation' ^^

Not the truth, not in the Strand. It's a shame really - their subscription numbers would probably have doubled :P

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Or the newsstands would have been torched by outraged citizens.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes... ^^"

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha! I think I've read that fic :)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Heck, here's a gorgeous piece of art by one of our favorites:

http://ireallyshouldbedrawing.tumblr.com/image/100098981010

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Aw. That's beautiful. I really liked their Holmestice offering, too.