The Adventure of the Priory School: Between

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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Priory School
Title: Between
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG-13
Author's Note: It's always interesting when you end up somewhere not at all where you expected when you started out writing a piece, especially when it's only 60 words. Implied H/W UST.

He paddled out in bare feet and nightgown, rubbing at the pearls of water left glistening in his hair with a towel.

"So, what have you got?"

I shook out the match between my fingers half a moment too late. The smooth roll of tobacco smoke across my tongue made up for the mistake.

"This case grows upon me, Watson."

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Oops, careless Holmes, you almost betrayed yourself.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Nice save, Holmes... ;D And very nice drabble!

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Very nice! It's just amazing to me how 60 words can carry such nuances of meaning.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. So easily distracted... at least where one person is concerned.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! I wasn't going for UST, but there it was anyway. :)

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! You know, I have come to love the 60 word format. It requires certain levels of patience and creativity in word choice and phrasing to get what you want across. But at the same time, it's longer than it initially seems, and you can get a fair amount of nuance into your handful of sentences.

Now 100 word drabbles seem extravagant to me. And a 221B? Oh, well, you can put a whole novel in that space! ;)

[hardboiledbaby]

Oh, very nice! :)