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Eye of the Storm by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
12 Aug 2018
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Weather has become the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.
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One of my favourite (and completely unscientific and frivolous) movies is The Day After Tomorrow. This is my homage to that film.Series
- Part 1 of Speculative Shorts
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Lord, What Fools by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Sep 2018
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One night of madness is not going to make England fall. But it may bring together a consulting arse and an irresistible army doctor.
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- Part 2 of Speculative Shorts
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Sherlock is dead. John talks to him. He doesn't know what he'll do when he stops hearing his voice.
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- Part 3 of Speculative Shorts
- Part 8 of Many Happy Returns
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At night, anything you imagine can happen in the woods.
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- Part 4 of Speculative Shorts
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Those Things the Heart Believes by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
04 May 2019
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There were moments when he felt like a character in a story that had been abandoned by its author.
This story celebrates the Reichenbach Fall, the Final Problem, and the immortality of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
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- Part 2 of Author
- Part 5 of Speculative Shorts
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The Story of Us by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Jun 2019
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John sees things that never happened, dreams of a life he never lived.
He loves a man with eyes like glass.
The sibyl always tells the truth. Knowing your future doesn’t set you free, though.Series
- Part 6 of Speculative Shorts
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10,000 miles south of London, John Watson sits in a research station in Antarctica.
210 miles above London, Sherlock Holmes is floating in a space station.
They are Earth’s only survivors.Series
- Part 7 of Speculative Shorts
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Tea leaves, dice, tarot cards, fortune cookies. People grasped at these things because anything was better than being clueless.
Not that he actually believed any of it.The universe is trying to tell John Watson something. He keeps looking in the wrong direction.
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- Part 8 of Speculative Shorts
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Limbo by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
14 Sep 2019
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Ordinarily Sherlock would be quite impatient by now with all this pointless waiting (for what?), but at the moment he feels as if he has all the time in the world.
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- Part 9 of Speculative Shorts
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Sherlock acquires his own personal deity.
Note: This is just silliness, cabin fever, boredom talking. Not my usual dose of angst.
Inspired by a conversation: "Why do atheists say 'oh my god' all the time?"
No offence intended towards any gods, pagan or otherwise.
Please enjoy.Series
- Part 10 of Speculative Shorts
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Plot Devices by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
06 Jun 2020
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A nodus tollens moment: Sherlock realises that the plot of his life doesn't make any sense. He brainstorms. Season 3-4 Fixit. Takes place the morning after the scene at the Landmark.
"This is the problem: John has found a woman as clever as me, but much nicer... There are many ways this can go. Eleven possibilities, at least."
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- Part 5 of Author
- Part 11 of Speculative Shorts
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Red Pill, Blue Pill by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
03 Jul 2020
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Everything you do-- or don't do-- has consequences.
Does the great Sherlock Holmes have regrets?Series
- Part 12 of Speculative Shorts
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While You Were Dead by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock (TV)
22 Aug 2020
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On a stormy night at the hospital, John gets a second chance to say something he regrets not saying.
This is the second story in my series Many Happy Returns. Each of the stories is different. Some read like fables, some like reality, and some like a parallel universe where magic might be real. I've used different POVs. The theme is the same: Sherlock comes back to John.
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- Part 2 of Many Happy Returns
- Part 13 of Speculative Shorts
- Part 3 of Time Travel
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The Telltale Heart by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 Aug 2020
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The human heart is an amazing organ.
Not a horror story, but a fable.Series
- Part 3 of Many Happy Returns
- Part 14 of Speculative Shorts
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The night after Sherlock plunges to his death, the cat shows up.
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- Part 5 of Many Happy Returns
- Part 15 of Speculative Shorts
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In a bar somewhere, Sherlock runs into an old friend who is willing to make a deal with him.
OR: After two years, Sherlock comes home to John.Series
- Part 6 of Many Happy Returns
- Part 16 of Speculative Shorts
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Hell and Back by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
26 Sep 2020
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A man walks into a bookstore and asks for directions to Hell. As it happens, A. Z. Fell knows how to get there.
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- Part 7 of Many Happy Returns
- Part 17 of Speculative Shorts
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All Souls by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
02 Nov 2020
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The place next to me, where he used to sleep, was cold. But in the still darkness, I could hear him breathing. Steady, dependable, in and out.
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- Part 18 of Speculative Shorts
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Lo and behold, what curious things can happen in this world.
-- Hans Christian AndersenSeries
- Part 19 of Speculative Shorts
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Waiting for You by Calais_Reno
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
12 Jun 2021
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Every life ends in Death.
Every life but two.
“Lie with me,” he says.OR: Holmes and Watson are immortals, forever breaking up and coming back together.
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- Part 20 of Speculative Shorts