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Author: [info]capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom:  Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters:  Canon characters and villains
Summary: Three Six linked six-word stories
Warnings:  My Dr Watson fandom includes Sherlock Holmes; alliterative title
Word Count: 6 x 6
Author's Notes:  For Challenge 008 (Write a six-word story) at [info]great_tales
Each story can be read on its own, or combined to form a series.  
Alternative version of The Empty House

.oOOo.
April 1894

Intercepted Telegram
Sigerson returns to London.
Eliminate doctor.

Hand-delivered Message
Watson,
Moriarty survived.
Take precautions.
-Lestrade

Headline News
Senseless Attack: Kensington Doctor Gunned Down  

More Headlines
Break in Adair Case: An Arrest

Baker Street
Someone unexpected answers door.
Bookseller faints.

An Apology
'I too, can fake my death.'
.oOOo.

Please sign the guestbook if convenient...

Date: 2011-08-17 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] litlover12.livejournal.com
*blink*

I read that three times, thinking DID SHE REALLY JUST GO THERE???

Date: 2011-08-23 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
'Go where?' she asked innocently.

Date: 2011-08-17 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sabrinaphynn.livejournal.com
Eek! Not our doctor! Please make this right!

Date: 2011-08-23 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
'Make what right?' she asked innocently.

Date: 2011-08-23 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sabrinaphynn.livejournal.com
Never mind... A la Gilda...
Edited Date: 2011-08-23 08:14 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-08-17 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] labourslamp.livejournal.com
Those three were written quite well!

Date: 2011-08-23 08:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-08-17 08:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dreamflower
Wow! Just...wow!

Date: 2011-08-23 08:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-08-17 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldvermilion87.livejournal.com
You are....


EVIL!

I love it!

Date: 2011-08-23 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
It's my usericon, I swear!

Date: 2011-08-23 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] labourslamp.livejournal.com
I see what you did there.

Date: 2011-08-23 08:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-08-23 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] only-po.livejournal.com
If inconvenient, sign the guestbook all the same ;)

I love this! I had to read it twice to make sure I got it all and I loved it more!

Serves Holmes right, pretending to be dead for three years. I wonder if Mycroft didn't have a hand in Watson's "greatly exaggerated" death . . .

Date: 2011-08-24 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Ha ha! I was so hoping someone would pick up on the convenient/inconvenient line!

This is my cracky AU for EMPT. Somewhere in my brain attic a plot-bunny exists for a more serious treatment of that scenario.

And Mycroft? It's so hard to know what it is that he might not know about.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Date: 2011-08-24 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

There, six words! (Dammit, twelve words.)

Date: 2011-08-24 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Ha ha!
Thank you very much!

(That is also six words long)

(And now, this makes it eighteen!)

Date: 2011-09-06 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scotlandyarder.livejournal.com
Ooh, these are brilliant! A bit evil, you mean, mean writer, but completely brilliant.

Date: 2011-09-06 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
I tried to comply with the six-word story format, but this developed into something else, which I liked well enough to keep. (Then I wrote some non-Holmes six-word stories for the challenge.) Thanks for commenting!

Date: 2011-09-07 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dork-nerd.livejournal.com
Amazing! My heart was in my throat for 'Senseless Attack: Kensington Doctor Gunned Down' but the reveal with 'bookseller faints' was absolutely perfect!

Date: 2011-09-07 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Thanks! I was a little unfair to Holmes in this one. These started off as one six-word story. Then it became three, then a six six-word arc.
At six words, these were exceedingly long-winded. You should see my Three-Word Story!

Date: 2012-02-23 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agent-era.livejournal.com
Turnabout is fair play, Holmes, serves you right, anyways. *snrk*

Date: 2012-02-23 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Haha! I think a lot of Holmes fans still have trouble with EMPT!
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