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Title: all the pith is in the postscript
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 676 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Author's choice, any, foreign correspondence
Pairing: Sherlock/Watson
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Your wife has been communicating with that woman," he told me. "There is an entire life history there that I am nearly certain is false. I have kept track of her whenever possible and she has no children and certainly no little home in Italy."

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Title: mholmes is now following you on Twitter
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 705 words
Prompt: (+61): Just letting everyone know that I am still alive after last night. On a related note, this is the 15th "I'm not dead!" mass text I've sent. You've got to celebrate the little things.
Pairing: Jane and Shirley gen
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: The text had gone out sometime after Jane had slumped into bed and before Shirley had fallen asleep, which Jane thought was rather unfair. If you had to send out a text like that, you should at least stay awake long enough to reassure a few people before creeping to bed.

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Title: if an echo sounded
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 453 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: either Watson, unsolved cases
Pairing: Watson gen
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: There were just a few sparse documents here: the story of Jae Phillimore, who ran back to her dorm room for her chapstick, and was never seen again; the tale of Alicia, a normally dependable trucker who drove off into fog one morning and never returned; and poor Isadora, the Journalist Club president, who lost her sanity overnight and was found in the morning, staring blindly at an empty matchbox and a failed biology experiment.

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Title: diplomatic cologne
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 325 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: steampunkverse, Holmes/Watson, 'you and I get so damn dysfunctional we start keeping score.' bonus points if it's more comedy than drama
Pairing: John/Shirley
Other: Set in an AU-verse where Sherlock was born Shirley, but the setting is (mostly) retained with some occasional steampunk elements that don't show up in this fic.

Excerpt: "Perhaps you could try being right more often," Holmes said, with a certain quirk to her smile.

John brandished his fork at her with mock offense. "Miss Holmes, that is not a solution to the problem. This unladylike domination of yours simply must stop."

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Title: progressively unnecessary
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 486 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: any universe, any Mary Morstan, five things
Pairing: Mary/Jane, implied Shirley/Jane
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: Mary is quiet. She's an only child, her father gone for long stints in the Navy, and she's grown up with various childless aunts who didn't really know how to handle her. She rose to the call by being quiet, humble, and mature at a young age. The aunts called her an angel, but passed her around between them like they were playing cards.

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Title: the gift of reverie
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 914 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: steampunkverse, John and Shirley, how he weaned her off of cocaine.
Pairing: Sherlock/Watson established
Other: Set in an AU-verse where Sherlock was born Shirley, but the setting is (mostly) retained with some occasional steampunk elements that don't show up in this fic. There is some implied sex in this.

Excerpt: She smiled back at him. "It's like being on a case," she said. "The human body can be quite as unpredictable as the average criminal."

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Title: the odd half of a pair of scissors
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Length: 621 words
Prompt: Sherlock Holmes fic battle: modernverse, Jane/Shirley, domestic/married life
Pairing: Jane/Shirley established
Other: Set in a modern AU-verse where both Holmes and Watson are women who started their partnership in college.

Excerpt: Jane unlocks the front door and is bowled over by dogs. She leans down to accept their offering of affection, and when she straightens, she sees Shirley silhouetted in the door to the kitchen. Shirley is wearing an apron over top her favorite bathrobe, so she probably didn't have a case today.

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