Creepy-Crawly

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Title: Creepy-Crawly
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Major John Watson, Medical Officer
Summary: WWI
Warning: (It wouldn't be July without a visit to no-mans-land)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 17th 2023 prompt: Creeps and Crawls

.oOOo.

Creepy-crawly. Keep your head down.

Take your time. Move slowly, limb by limb. Imperceptibly. Creepy-crawly.

Stay below the barbed wire’s deadly web.

Craters filled with muck and poisonous fog are worse than the snipers. Creepy-crawly.

Don’t chance the snipers. There’s a bounty on officers and medics, so you’re doubly at risk.

Creepy-crawly.

Bored artillerymen may lob a shell or two your way just to watch the fireworks. Do not react. Do NOT scream.

Don your gas mask systematically and calmly. Creepy-crawly.

The only distance that matters is the next safe inch. And then the next.

Like a swamp adder. Creepy-crawly.

.oOOo.

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Supplementary Notes: Swamp adders... why is it always swamp adders?

Comments

[upstairsfromreality]

It is always swamp adders because No Man's Land is a land of the unthinkable. The perfect place for an unheard-of-snake to sneak up and bite you.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Excellent!

[smallhobbit]

Well put.

[pompey_01]

Oh wow. Was not expecting that Watson to be the creepy-crawly in question!

[debriswoman]

No idea how I missed this one…it is brilliant…and awful…

[gardnerhill]

Brings the trenches to aching, vivid life.