[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Title: The Missing Three-Quarter: Re-echo
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: You may get feels on this ride. Postulation in progress.
Summary: Pain echoes pain. This storylet is a POV-shift of my earlier offering, Echo.

***

I held Watson in our room as he wept, Mrs. Staunton’s fate clearly echoing his own tragic loss. “Perhaps I should not have taken this case,” I murmured.

He held me tighter, his voice clear though heavy with tears. “No. You need work. Better this than idleness turning your thoughts to the needle again.”

I held him all that night.
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Ease of Body and Mind (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: PG

Such a sad case.  I have been reminded of when I lost my dear Mary and the affair has left me feeling low.  My joints are stiff because Holmes was right, Pompey, even on a lead, set a pace we were hard put to keep up with.  I am grateful to Lestrade for easing both my body and my mind.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Missing Three-Quarter and the chosen topic is Telegrams and the Telegraph.

Discussion continues... )
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Pale Winter Sunshine
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: A woman, young and beautiful... Her calm, pale face, with dim, wide-opened blue eyes, looked upward from amid a great tangle of golden hair.


Afterwards, Holmes was careful of my feelings. But it is four years since Mary died. My only sorrow now… is that I no longer grieve over her.

Mrs. Staunton has gone, and taken the whole world with her. But gradually young Staunton will learn to live in its strange, new replacement—and then, one day, he will call it home.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
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.



In a London Drawingroom

By George Eliot



Note from Rachel: We here at Baker Street know that it is the quiet times the good doctor dreads most. The dangerous calm, he calls it, when Mr. Holmes looks out his window and sees nothing in the world worth remarking upon.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the list poem.

Betsy Franco gives this definition:

A list poem can be a list or inventory of items, people, places, or ideas. It often involves repetition. It can include rhyme or not. The list poem is usually not a random list; it is well thought out. The last entry in the list is usually a strong, funny, or important item or event.


Here are two more resources that may help you:

How to Write a Funny List Poem and ”List Poem” instructions & examples



And here is my example:


Good morning! You join us now for 221’s sports day
And already the games are underway.

Mr. Holmes wrestles with miscreants who’ve decided to call.
And then there is sprinting the length of the hall.
Shall we watch the slalom round each dining room chair?
Or boxing—lovely uppercut from the good doctor there.
Ah, of course—on to shooting! Which side is most able?
(Your commentator now reporting from under the table.)
Is it rugby now? There seems rather a scrum…
No! Final whistle—the police force has come!

And here is the score—the totted up bill:
Mrs. Hudson: £5, seventeen shillings and six.
Mr. Holmes and Doctor Watson: nil.




But you do not have to use that 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, 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, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Missing Three-Quarter in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson
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[identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Rating: Gen
Summary: On a tea estate in Terai, a letter arrives.
Author's Note: Rasher is my OC name for the canon canine. Implied background Holmes/Trevor.

“Rasher, it’s a letter from your old friend Holmes.”
He scratched the bull terrier behind the ears as he read. Then he laughed aloud.
Rasher whined.
“Sorry ol’ sport, he just says, ‘Blame dearth of knowledge manifested in recent case on your disingenuous rugby lessons.’ At the time, I seem to remember him saying they were very instructive.”
Rasher howled.
[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Title: The Missing Three-Quarter: Scab
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack.
Summary: Some blokes need to be reminded to keep to their own patch.

***

“You wished to see me?” Pompey wagged his tail, eager.

“Yeh.” The lurcher-spaniel stubbed out his cigar-end. “There’s only one nose as works for Mr. Holmes in this empire, sunshine, and yer lookin’ at ‘im. ”

The beagle-foxhound drooped. “But my orders!”

“Next time act like ye got rabies if you got to. But you don’t work for Holmes again.”
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This Sunday, 26th March, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Missing Three-Quarter.

A young Cambridge student and rugby player has gone missing before an important match. Can Holmes find him? And should Holmes find him..?

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 inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, where we discuss a topic inspired by the canon story. And there’s Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page too - any poems written about this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post. As usual, her housemaid Rachel will be suggesting a poem for us to read to give us added inspiration, and there will also be a new poetry form to try: the list poem.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments.) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday. But don’t worry if you can’t join us then - we stay open for posting and commenting all week!
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Varsity Matches (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

The anticipation of this year’s inter-varsity rugby match is high.  The teams are overall evenly matched, for whilst Cambridge has strength in its scrums and line-outs, Oxford has the faster attack and more solid defence.  We look forward to seeing whether the Cambridge rugby players can do better than their rowing team, who have lost for the past six years.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: In A Flap
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street… I went round and saw that all the fellows had gone to roost…


“Holmes…” said Watson, cautiously. “There’s a carrier pigeon. Tapping at the window.”

“Excellent!”

Holmes beamed.

“It’s a communication from Hopkins!”

He brought the bird inside and removed the message.

“Shocking new evidence, Mr. Holmes. True killer is—”

Holmes frowned and turned over the paper. “Oh! Second pigeon to follow.”

Watson sighed. “I do wish you’d learn to embrace the telephone.”
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired 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.

This week my featured form is the curtal sonnet.

Definition and Example )



As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. 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, blackout poetry, blues stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, englyn, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Missing Three-Quarter in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This week we’re having a look at The Missing Three-Quarter. I’ve typed up a few thoughts and questions to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

Discussion continues... )
[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Title: The Missing Three-Quarter: Echo
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: You may get feels on this ride.
Summary: The denouement of this one must have really hurt Dr. Watson.

***

Holmes grasped Dr. Armstrong’s hand. “Come, Watson,” said he.

We left that house in silence.  In that same silence we walked back. After returning Pompey to his master we made for our room at the inn.

And only when we were safe behind locked doors did Holmes take me in his arms as I wept, remembering my own Mary’s death.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This Sunday, 18th October, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for The Missing Three-Quarter.

A young rugby player has gone missing before an important game. Can Holmes find him? And should Holmes find him..?

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 inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, and Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page. Any poems inspired by this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments ^^) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday ^^
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[personal profile] vaysh
Canon Story: The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
Title: A Winter Afternoon
Author: [livejournal.com profile] vaysh
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Rating: PG
Words: 60


Caught in a melancholy mood, Holmes suggested a visit to Blackheath, and on our return from my old club, he made love to me. In any other man I would have suspected fear of death. But to Holmes death was as natural as birth or sex. What puzzled, even upset him, were those subtler sentiments – loyalty, friendship, and ultimately, love.

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G




Draghound Pompey
Could not run free
Since he would set a pace
Faster than two middle-aged London gentlemen could race
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Untimely Death
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
A/N: There was one small sentence ...

My dear inspector called on Mr Holmes yesterday to enquire concerning the outcome of Mr Overton’s case.  My heart almost broke when I saw how greatly he was affected by the news of the death of the young wife, coming a few months after he lost his own sister.  I could hardly watch as his manly shoulders shook with grief.
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “I did not tell him how urgent the danger was, for I knew that he could do no good here, but I sent the truth to the girl's father, and he very injudiciously communicated it to Godfrey.”


Doctor Leslie Armstrong
Thought giving the alarm wrong.
Was it really more important to be a three-quarter,
Than to be a husband to the man’s dying daughter?
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Bicycle
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “There is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop next to our inn. Into this I rushed, engaged a bicycle, and was able to get started before the carriage was quite out of sight.” Really?



“I must hire a bicycle!”

“Of course, sir. Your name and address?”

“It is urgent!”

“I understand but…”

“My name’s Holmes! I’m staying at the…”

“Hymes?”

“Holmes. Sherlock Holmes.”

“Not the Sherlock Holmes?!”

“The carriage…”

“I’m a great admirer.”

“My bicycle!”

“Ah, yes. Sign here, Mr. Holmes. Thank… Oh, he’s gone. Splendid fellow. So pleased I was able to help.”
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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
This week we’re looking at The Missing Three-Quarter. I’ve written up a few thoughts to get the discussion started. NB: We welcome anonymous comments but the community has been having problems with spam. All anonymous comments are now screened, so there will be a short waiting period before they become visible. Sorry for any inconvenience ^^

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