A fun youtube find yesterday or, more accurately, a youtube find via the imdb character page for Mycroft Holmes. A search which was inspired in turn by just having finished reading Mycroft's posthumous biography "The Lion Looks in All Directions".

Finding a DVD box of "Murder Rooms" during a charity shop wander has also helped send me on another Holmes kick. I really must tidy my desk so I can get to my Xbox and watch my DVDs.

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Title: The Game
Word Count: 110
BONUS: Yes!
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): None
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): None
Summary:"Tell me, did you enter The Game with a specific game plan in mind?"


"Everyone says I came here with a game plan. That isn't true. Some people certainly entered with personal game plans. Others arrived saying they only wanted to have fun and faced their captors without anger or regret.

"I can be any piece you need me to be. I take my voted position seriously. Every time. I have been every single piece you see on this board, excepting one.

"Tonight I will take on my role as that final piece. I have never lost our game. I don't survive out of choice but through inherent skill I could not fight before.

Tonight, my capture will end the game for us all."

Title: Ariadne Wakes
Word Count:110
BONUS: Yes
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Greek myth
Pairings (if any): Ariadne/Theseus.
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): none
Summary: Ariadne awakes alone and wishes she could dream.

Ariadne opened her eyes to meet the burning sun. Feeling great pain, she cast her gaze to other quarters of the brightening sky. Ariadne saw two white birds. Shadows clouding her vision forced her to look away again as one flew towards the sun.

She closed her eyes and hoped to dream. Instead she remembered. Ariadne played with Icarus in her airy, labyrinthine dancing ground. With her brother's birth it became a sealed, stifling, sunless prison.

Last night she aided in the slaughter of her beloved monstrous brother to win herself a visiting hero.

Ariadne stood. The white sail fell from her body. She finally found her fearful voice.

"Theseus?"

Prompt: Library
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Prompt: Coffee
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Prompt: Horror
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Stormcrow


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The 9th and 10th Drabbles for the Drabble Tree challenge at writerverse. I didn't write 15 drabbles in the end due to spending last weekend in Cardiff for a roleplaying event and coming back with a massive cold. Still Cardiff was ace and the two Doctor Who games I played in were fantastic! And me managing to write 10 drabbles is not an achievement to be sniffed at (ha!).

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Three more drabbles for the Drabble Tree challenge at writerverse

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The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th drabbles have characters from Circumnavigate Infinity (my Occupied Channel Islands/Flyer/Lighthouse story) and the 4th drabble has Mycroft Holmes and John Watson from Sherlock. The lines in bold were taken from a previously posted drabble, as per challenge destructions. Enjoy!

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( Fifth Drabble )

Why do parents tell you don't read enough or widely enough when you tell them you want to be a writer or study English - then turn around months later and say you've got too many books that you're "never going to read" and that you should chuck most of them.

*GrrrrGrumbleGrumbleGrumblestupidparentsarrrghcry*