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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2016-07-20 08:37 pm

Sunlit World Grown Dark

Title: Sunlit World Grown Dark
Fandom/Rating:
Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon), rated G
Word Count: 100 words

Summary:
 Watson drifts.
Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] watsons_woes JWP#20. Title adapted from a line in the Barnum song "The Colors of My Life."

I find myself unmoored after Mary's death. I maintain my practice, see to my patients, and spend the occasional night at the club, but I am merely biding my time until the day I leave this place to join both Holmes and my dear wife in the hereafter.

Without either here to light my way, the world is a bleak, muted one. I am directionless, like a compass spinning idly instead of pointing north. I drift through life, drawing my loneliness around me like a cloak, with only it and the increasingly frequent brandy to keep my demons at bay.
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[identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh noes! Leave the brandy in the Gladstone where it belongs, Watson!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Watson, right?

[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Woe. (In other words, a fic that succeeds at its intention.)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry!

[identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Watson! He will find more demons in the bottle if he is not careful.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Sad, but true.