Fic: The Family Herald - G

[redders]

Title: The Family Herald
Wordcount: 100
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: a lonely pre-LAST breakfast
Author's Notes: wandering back into writing after (mumbles number) years, so glad to have prompts now and then--thanks all!

Even before cracked, I knew the eggs were once again hard-boiled.

In honesty, my palate was not so discriminatory to mind; decades had done little to elide the memory of a soldier's rations.

That aside, I hadn't heart to correct our cook. There will be dark enough days. Why begrudge stories of romance, the dubious advice to new lovers?

I looked to the empty chair. A year with no word felt a century. Yet in this, too, I had endured worse.

Lancing out chalky yolk, I scanned the paper like an oracle, summoning the sole direction I had: Chicago. Chicago.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

A nice take on the prompt. And welcome to holmes_minor

[redders]

Thank you so much for the comment and welcome! :D

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

A lovely scene and poignant sentiment. Welcome!

[redders]

Thank you!

[scfrankles]

I looked to the empty chair. A year with no word felt a century. Yet in this, too, I had endured worse. I particularly liked that line. So poignant.

Let me add my welcome to our little comm ^_^ Good luck with all your writing!

[redders]

Thank you so much for the welcome, and for the comment! :D

[gardnerhill]

Poignancy can reside in such mundane objects.