"Flint" (Rated G, "Study in Crimson" Pirate AU), for Talk Like a Pirate Day 2017

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: Flint
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“Study in Crimson” Pirate AU)
Word Count: 500
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Some things are harder to do one-handed than others.
Author's Notes: For September 19, 2017’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Also fits the August and September 2017 Holmes Minor Prompts, “Hand Utensil” and “Learning Something New”

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Comments

[debriswoman]

Very clever use of the prompt...a hard won achievement:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Very much so. This was partially inspired by Pete Gray, the one-armed baseball player, who'd developed a technique of catching the ball, tucking the mitt into his arm-stump, pulling out his hand and grabbing the ball to throw it to the base.