Title: L’arbore di Diana (In Diana’s Garden)
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: ACD Holmes (“Vermilion Problem” series)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Word Count: 6666
Rating: PG (mention of blood)
Warning: Mention of blood.
Summary: When Diana and Amore confront each other, there can be only one winner.
Author's Notes: For the LJ Comm Spook Me ( Read more... )

Title: Nourishment
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: ACD (Vampire AU)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Word Count: 1263
Rating: PG
Warning: Blood. Animal death.
Summary: Watson makes a singular discovery about his new fellow lodger. (Part of my Vermilion Problem vampire series.)
Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #6, ( Read more... )

Title: Winter’s Luck
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Sherlock Holmes ACD (“The Vermilion Problem” AU)
Word Count: 5176
Rating: PG
Warning: Body horror, gun violence. Surprisingly little blood.
Summary: Poor ‘Killer’ Evans (aka John Garrideb, aka James Winter). He never could catch a break, ever.
Author's Notes: For the October 2015 Watson's Woes ( Read more... )

Title: Golden Throat
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Elementary
Word Count: 442 - two 221b’s, one after the other.
Warning: Profanity.
Rating: PG (language)
Summary: Amazingly, there actually is something that Joan Watson is BAD at.
Author’s Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #28, Bad, Bad, oh so Bad! Whether it's bad art, bad ( Read more... )

Title: Game of Drones
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Elementary (the Joan’s Beez series)
Word Count: 221b
Warning: NYC-typical language. Crack.
Rating: PG (language)
Summary: Same rules - you win or you die.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #26, The One You Were Expecting: Everyone expects certain kinds of prompts in ( Read more... )

Title: Hollaback Girl
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Elementary
Word Count: 450
Warning: Racist language. Profanity. Icky girl stuff.
Rating: PG (language, display of racism and misogyny)
Summary:  Always take advantage of male squeamishness.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #23, Improvised Tools. For a truly ( Read more... )

Title: Barbacoa
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Pirate AU (my series A Study in Crimson)
Word Count: 1082
Warning: 17th-century remedies and incorrect medical treatments.
Rating: PG (nautical language)
Summary: Some Terrors of the High Seas don’t do well in the heat.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #21, Heat Rash. ( Read more... )

Title: On the Isolation of the Queen
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Elementary (my “Joan’s Beez” series)
Word Count: 812
Rating: PG (language)
Warning: Crack. NYC-appropriate profanity.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes finally learns the Big Secret.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #12, Doyle vs. Dogs. For this one I’m ( Read more... )

Title: Leave No Man Behind
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Sherlock BBC
Word Count: 1238
Rating: PG (language)
Warning: Major Character Death. Profanity. Also a major downer.
Summary: Sometimes you have to amputate a gangrenous limb.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #9, Healer's Choice. One person Watson chose not to ( Read more... )

Title: The Resident
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Western AU
Word Count: 550
Rating: PG (language)
Warning: Wild West-style profanity.
Summary: Sheriff Lock and Doc get philosophical with a condemned man.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt #8:

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"I never saw a man who looked ( Read more... )