Title: Diving
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 130
Content Notes: (variation on a) villanelle; Reichenbach angst, POV Holmes
Summary: Diving's much like falling save for the fear.
Author's Note: For my 1_million_words bingo square: diving

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Title: The Demi-Goblin & the Vampire
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Teen
Length: 1520
Content Notes: Mycroft/Lestrade; AU; Vampire Mycroft; Demi-Goblin!Lestrade; miscommunication; Lycan!John playing matchmaker; Vampire!Sherlock being a brat; set at the end of "A Study in Pink."
Summary: No one said asking a hairy beast out on a date would be easy.
Author's Note: From my Into a bar AU. Also for my 1_million_words bingo square: The Hairy Beast.

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Title: Pinball Wizard
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
Length: 500
Content Notes: Sherlock/John, first time, PWP, hand job, songfic ("Pinball Wizard" by The Who)
Summary: Sherlock doesn't play the violin when he's thinking.
Author's Note: For my 1_million_words bingo square: The Wizard.

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Title: The Wee Folk of Merlin Crag
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Gen
Length: 132
Content Notes: Burns stanza (x 4); fairies
Summary: The Wee Folk of Merlin Crag capture a lord who dares to cut peat from their bog. They release him and he discovers that 20 years have passed and the poor cutter (who refused to cut the peat from the Wee Folks' home) has become lord in his place.
Author's Note: for my 1_million_words Bingo square: the fairy; story from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures.
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Title: The Way You Look Tonight
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Mature
Length: 1543
Content Notes/Warnings: Gender/cisswap, Sherlock/John, hurt/comfort, masturbation, pining John, shape shifting witch Sherlock
Summary: John confides in a stray cat that looks, well, familiar.
Author's Note: for my 1_million_words bingo square: the Witch.
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Title: A Bee for Sherlock
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Teen
Length: 900
Content Notes/Warnings: Horror; dark fic; Major Character Deaths; Purposefully Vague Creepiness; this is not your Hobbit's Retirementlock; bees.
Summary: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner retold with Holmes as Emily.
Author's Note: for my 1_million_words bingo square: The Corpse.

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Title: Horrid is the Word You Want
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Gen
Length: 727
Content Notes: Jeeves/Wooster, spiders.
Summary: A bit of bally rot for godsdaisiechain on the anniversary of her birth. Many returns of the day!
Author's Note: Also for my 1_million_words bingo square: boating/sailing.

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Title: Dung Beetles
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 526
Content Notes: fluff, Sherlock/John
Summary: A chase takes a romantic turn.
Author's Note: For my 1_million_words Bingo Action/Adventure square: Dancing Under the Stars.
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Title: Sloth Moths Pouring Tea
Fandom: Original Work [technically a poem by an OC from an AU of Sherlock Holmes (ACD) but that's one too many steps for me, so let's just say it's mine]
Rating: Gen
Length: 25
Content Notes: Butterfly cinquain
Summary: Inky Quill the porcupine goes to tea at Sloth's as described in his June column of the Marylebone Monthy Illustrated. There he see Sloth's sloth moths pouring tea and is inspired to write a poem. This is the poem.
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Title: Duel
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 553
Content Notes: AU; Parrot!Holmes; Parrot!Watson; Alternate First Meeting; crack
Summary: Holmes (an African grey parrot) and Watson (a millitary macaw) meet on a hot air balloon.
Author's Note: Inspired by The Air Balloon Debate by thesmallhobbit and a real-life duel that took place in hot air balloons between a Portuguese man (Molica) and an unnamed Dutchman as reported in The Illustrated Police News on March 16, 1878. Also for my 1_million_words Action/Adventure June Bingo square: Duel.

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Title: Eggnog
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
Length: 500
Content Notes/Warnings: Established Mycroft/Lestrade, alien oviposition roleplay, Christmas, a bit of H/C at the end, safewording out of a scene.
Summary: 'Horror-struck' is a challenge when your alien captor is wearing a Santa hat.
Author's Note: For my Cheers ficlet collection.
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Title: Egged
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 221B
Content Notes: Sherlock/John; Alternate First Meeting; Humor; Crack, AU.
Summary: When 221 Baker Street is egged, Mrs. Hudson hires the "Men in Kilts" cleaning service. Window washer John meets new tenant Sherlock.
Author Notes: One 'Men in Kilts' franchise owner is quoted as saying "Athletes and veterans are the primary guys I go for" and thus a fic was born.

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Title: Eggs
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 1055
Content Notes: Metafic, John writes fanfic, AU, fluff, crack.
Summary: Sherlock interrupts while John is trying to decide what kind of eggs his fictional characters, Surecock Bones and Doctor Wantsome, have for breakfast.

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Title: Whistling in the Nave
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Teen
Length: 330
Content Notes/Warnngs: Humor; AU; Fem!Sherlock; Fem!John, Sherlock/John; Mycroft/Lestrade; Sherlock & John are nuns; Mycroft is a priest; Lestrade is a sherriff; blasphemy & sacriligous use of religious artifacts and ceremonies
Summary: Sister Scholastica goes to confession.
Author's Note: Also for the LJ 1_million_word number challenge '86'
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Title: The Kettle Whistle
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 41
Content Notes: Rime couée; POV Holmes
Summary: Holmes after Victor Trevor leaves for Terai
Author's Note: Follows my fic Correspondence, in which Victor Trevor ends up saying goodbye to Holmes in a 6 word telegram (after pouring his heart out in draft letters).

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Title: The White Moss Rose and the Dog-rose
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Teen
Length: 221B
Content Notes: Sherlock/John, hurt/comfort; implied self-bondage & masturbation; reference to Wilkie Collins The Moonstone.
Summary: John discovers Sherlock's secret and confesses his own.
Author's Note: Greenaway's Language of Flowers gives the meaning 'confession of love' for the moss rosebud and 'pleasure and pain' for the dog-rose. Tribute to the classic An Unexpected Encounter by sommersprosen.
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Title: Rosa Mundi
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
Length: 3290
Content Notes: Sherlock/John, Mycroft/John, Anthea/John, Molly/John (implied), Lestrade/John, Moriarty/John (implied). Open relationship Sherlock/John. John is the AU bicycle. Reference to "The Speckled Blonde" case on John Watson's blog.
Summary: A bouquet of flowers arrives at 221B for John. Sherlock investigates but the list of possible senders is not a short one.
Author's Note: Greenaway's Language of Flowers gives 'variety' as the meaning of Mundi roses.
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Title: Sir Arthur's Garden
Fandom: Real Person Fiction
Rating: Gen
Length: 565
Content Notes: Crack, humor, satire of the portrayl of women in the Sherlock Holmes stories, references to canon stories "Thor Bridge," "The Sussex Vampire," "The Musgrave Ritual," and others, all dialogue, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/Jean Leckie
Summary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dreams of flowers.
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Title: A China Rose amongst the Guelders
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating Gen
Length: 221B
Content Notes: Genderswapped. Sherlock/John; Mycroft/Lestrade. Retirement!lock.
Summary: Now in their retirement, Mycroft & Lestrade & John take a painting class.
Author's Note: According to Greenaway's Language of Flowers, guelder roses mean 'winter' and 'age' and china rose means 'beauty always new.'
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Title: Burgundy Rose
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Explicit
Length: 2045
Content Notes & Warning: Based on fairy tale (Sleeping Beauty)  Gender/sex/cisswap. Sherlock/John. The second half is a consensual role play of a nonconsenual sceario.
Summary: At Sherlock's hospital bedside, John recounts a story. Later, she and Sherlock roleplay.
Author's Note: Greenaway's The Language of Flowers gives 'unconscious beauty' for the meaning of a burgundy rose. In the first half of the story John is recounting a tale based on part 1 of Perrault's version of the Sleeping Beauty tale (1697); there is reference to part 2, also. In the second half of this story, she and Sherlock roleplay part of Bastile's version (1634) of the story (called Sun, Moon, and Talia). 
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