Title: Making a Baker
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“A Study In Crimson” pirate AU)
Word Count: 1073
Rating: G
Warning: Some minor bloodshed.
Summary: Piracy isn’t just drinking rum, waving a cutlass, and saying “Arr.” (A story in my A Study in Crimson pirate AU.)
Author's Notes: For the 2016 July Watson's Woes Promptfest prompt ( Read more... )

Title: Re-Ascending
Author: gardnerhill       
Verse: My Sherlock Holmes Pirate AU A Study in Crimson
Word Count: 221B
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: A sequel to Ascent.
Author's Notes: For the April 2016 Watson's Woes Monthly Prompt, “Stormy Weather.”

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Rain lashed my body. Thunder boomed. The Baker heaved up and down the ocean swells ( Read more... )

Title: Talk Like a Wasp
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“Study in Crimson” AU)
Word Count: 2561
Rating: PG-13 (gore, violence)
Warning: Piratey violence, blood, nasty crap.
Summary: There is more than one way to talk like a pirate.
Author's Notes: For September 19, aka International Talk Like a Pirate Day - the prompt that started it ( Read more... )

Here is my master list for the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest; date, link to the story, (universe).

2015 JWP Practice Prompts:

5/21: Practice Prompt #1, Memento Mori (ACD Canon)
5/22: Practice Prompt #2, Wakakana Koa a Holamaka Kahuna (Polynesian AU)

2015 JWP Prompts:

7/1: Prompt #1, A Practical Cat (Great Mouse Detective/TS Eliot “Possum’s ( 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: The Victories of Pyrrhus
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“A Study in Crimson” Pirate AU)
Pairing: None
Word Count: 4323
Rating: PG (violence, mention of violence)
Warning: Violence, implied violence
Summary: No Disney movie is complete without the villain’s big musical number.
Author's Notes: Created as a JWP 2014 prize for maestress83: "I ( Read more... )

Title: Bohemian Rhapsody
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“Study in Crimson” Pirate AU)
Word Count: 1510
Rating: PG-13 (violence and gore)
Warning: Violence, death, blood, brutality, mayhem. Or as pirates call it, “Saturday night.”
Summary: We meet someone only talked about before.
Author's Notes: Because it would be wrong of me to let ( Read more... )

Title: Intriguing
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“Study in Crimson” pirate AU)
Word Count: 432
Warning: Court intrigue
Rating: G
Summary: Not all the battles are fought with cutlass and cannon.
Author's Notes: For the 2014 July Watson’s Woes Prompt #18, brought to you by med_cat: Honored With a Star. A character earns or is awarded ( Read more... )

Title: Red Gold
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (“Study in Crimson” pirate AU)
Pairing: None
Word Count: 1491
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Violence, gore.
Summary: Sometimes you’ve just gotta say “Screw the Prime Directive.”
Author's Notes: For the 2014 JWP Practice Prompt #3: Action!
( Pipe the lubbers aboard! )

Title: King Midas Has Asses’ Ears
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (takes place in my pirate AU “A Study in Crimson” ‘verse)
Pairing: None
Rating: PG (violence)
Warning:  Implied violence.
Word Count: 814
Summary: Your captain may forbid your words, but he cannot stop the signal.
Author's Notes: JWP 2014 Practice Prompt #1, “a mysterious ( Read more... )