Fic: Missing Piece: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Missing Piece
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Notes: Sussex Retirement AU. Happy Puzzle Day!

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Admin Post: The Poetry Page: On The (Cautious and Socially Responsible) Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

Well, we finally made it back from Mull, and this month we find ourselves in Switzerland! Not at the Reichenbach Falls fortunately, so there will be no risk of detectives going over the edge. (Though perhaps it was lucky Mr. Holmes showed no interest in accompanying us or I might have been tempte—) Ahem. No, instead here we are in St. Moritz, home of the Cresta Run!

As you are probably aware, the Cresta Run is an ice track for racing skeleton style toboggans. It has a… certain reputation, but perhaps surprisingly the course is currently open to female participants.

I’m sorry, Mrs. Frankles, did you say “Give it time”? Mrs. Frankles…?

Anyway, Mrs. Small-Hobbit has been in intensive training and has received permission from the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club to give the run her best shot! The rest of us will be moving down to the finishing line where we shall wait with the first-aiders—purely a precautionary measure I’m sure, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! Then we shall all retire to the nearest hotel for cocoa and poetry after Mrs. Small-Hobbit has reached her end. Er, I mean, reached the end. I’m sure it’s going to be fine, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! (Oh dear God.)


As preparation for our poetic endeavours, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”:

He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.



And here as always is the list of poetry forms:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith

And so, break a leg, Mrs. Sma—! Er, no, absolutely not. The very best of luck, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! We’ll have the cocoa ready!