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Title: Penalty
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Holmes needs just one shot.
Warnings: guns
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Fill for July 17 prompt: "Dialogue fic - a story told entirely with dialogue.  Sound effects are permitted if you need them."
Word Count: 100

 

Title: Creative instincts
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Holmes objects to Watson's writing.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Fill for July 16 prompt:

"Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of Ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship FRIESLAND, which so nearly cost us both our lives." 

Make of this prompt what you will; you can do the case, the aftermath, modernize it into a non-Doyle canon, or merely reference it in your fic.

Word Count: 250

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Title: Dignity
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Lestrade
Summary: TLC for Watson, who is in no condition to appreciate it.
Warnings: Major character death (highlight to read; it's a bit spoilery), angst
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Two entries for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 14 prompt: "TLC, whatever form (and rating) that means to you.  Meaning TLC for Watson, not given by." I'm afraid that, although Watson is receiving TLC, there is not so much comfort in this story. (However, the request for comfort was under the prompt, not part of it, so I'm disregarding that portion.)
Word Count: 100

( Holmes couldn't bear to see him like this . . . )

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Title: Guest
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: TLC for Watson, comfortless grief for Holmes.
Warnings: Major character death (highlight to read; it's a bit spoilery), angst
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Two entries for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 14 prompt: "TLC, whatever form (and rating) that means to you.  Meaning TLC for Watson, not given by." I'm afraid that, although Watson is receiving TLC, there is not so much comfort in these ficlets. (However, the request for comfort was under the prompt, not part of it, so I'm disregarding that portion.)
Word Count: 221B

( Watson's lanky body shivered on the settee . . . )

 

Title: Secrets
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, Mrs Hudson
Summary: Holmes's instinctive behavior is not rational
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 12 prompt: "Quote - 'I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.' -- William Hazlitt, 1826 (Direct quotation not necessary; use however you're inspired to do so.)"
Word Count: 361

( When Mrs Hudson entered to clear away the breakfast dishes, she was tempted simply to turn a blind eye . . . )

 

Title: The fate of the hamster
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, OFFA (="original female fuzzy animal")
Summary: Holmes and Watson acquire a new pet.
Warnings: Tarantulas (highlight to read; it's a bit of a spoiler and I promise nothing bad happens, but some people get twitchy around this)
Author's Notes: ACD book-verse. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 11 prompt: "kitten (or another equally fuzzy animal)."
Word Count: 1,115

( Holmes burst into the flat, exuberant. )

Title: Waiting
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Watson, 3 unnamed OMCs
Summary: Watson hates waiting.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 9 prompt: "Stress/exhaustion or stress management." Can be read as a companion to my July 8th response, Late.
Word Count: 797
       
( John was uneasy. )

Title: No end in sight
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson,
Summary: Sometimes you just need a break, and sometimes you just can't get it.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 7 prompt: "Falling  (however you want to interpret or extrapolate from that, is up to you)"
Word Count: 100

Title: The Elements of Style
Author: leone
Rating: PG
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: Before Strunk and White, there was John Watson to uphold the principles of good writing.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: ACD universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 5 prompt: "If actions speak louder than words, how is the pen mightier than the sword?"
Word Count: 100

( Nichols's laugh revealed decayed teeth and truly dreadful halitosis. )

Title: Woman's instincts
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: spacemutineer and methylviolet10b's 60 for 60 challenge: Week 2: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Warnings: none
Word Count: 60;

( Sherlock Holmes did not believe in feminine intuition. )

Title: Make the morning last
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson, OFC
Summary: An American tourist strikes out on her own, and encounters Holmes feelin' groovy, Watson less so.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: BBC Sherlock universe. Entry for Watson's Woes July writing prompts; fill for July 1 & 2 prompt: 1: Watson injury (any severity) from a different POV from Holmes; 2: rain, lamp-post, handkerchief, flowers. For background, feel free to read the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge Song.
Word Count: 919

( Courtney was fuming . . . )