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    Merle Highchurch looks up at the stars and feels a sense of beauty.
    John Hunger looks up at the stars and feels a sense of terror.

     

    Merle, John, and the Parlays we didn't see.

     

    (title from "Song of Myself" Section 48 by Walt Whitman)

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    13 May 2026

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    Sherlock Holmes has suffered from insomnia all his life. When Watson realizes the extent of it, he searches for a way to comfort Holmes, and in the process confronts things neither of them have been saying.

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    18 Sep 2025

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    Love was a proven irrationality for men of his kind. To say to anyone, "My heart is yours," would bring on his beloved the permanent threat of being cast off from society, safety, home--Unconscionable. He'd thought the impulse long conquered. Now he saw that time had only distilled it. It was no wild, unfocused longing now, but a concentrated need. To touch a loved face tenderly--it was such a simple thing to be so entirely out of reach.

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    02 Sep 2025

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    I picked up my drink and took a small sip, allowing the smoky liquid to burn at the back of my throat before swallowing it down. Heat blossomed in my stomach, the sensation perfectly in harmony with my feelings in that moment: warm, bright, hovering indecisively between calm contentment and a headier, more restless euphoria. My eyes traveled from the day’s paper to the man who sat beside me, reading and re-reading a letter, unaware that his presence was the source of my continued and consuming joy.

    Watson feels deeply for Holmes, but what it is he feels is less than clear.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    It takes a near miss for Holmes to realize that he cannot imagine his life without Watson.

     
    “You found me,” I said softly, gratefully. “You came back for me.” It was all I could say, and I repeated it quietly to myself as Holmes began to ease me to my feet.

    “I’ll always come back for you, Watson,” he said, his voice beginning to return to the tone of cool interest which was its usual character. “I am only sorry it took such a very long time.” An embarrassed melancholy touched his features, and I hated to see it.

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    29 Aug 2025