Fannish 50: 2024: Everything is Murder edition: 50: Fireworks

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I debated what the last item on this list should be but day before yesterday I added a postcard of fireworks to my new planner and that decided me.

I love fireworks. I know many of my DW friends don't, but for me, they are a happy childhood memory, one of few I can look back on without pain, shame, or disgust. I lived in a place where they were legal and sold year-round and we shot them off as a family for every holiday. When I still had contact with the Trump side of my extended family, I would buy $100s of dollars of fireworks at places in Tennessee and take them to Mississippi and shoot them off for the holidays. Today, I have a tiny box of 6 sparklers for New Years' Eve. A long way from the old days, but I still put the stems between my teeth :) If you aren't about to lose a finger or an eye, you're doing it wrong.

So I wrote a double drabble set in my BBC Sherlock Waffle House/firework stand AU. The fireworks ficlet was Snap-Crackle-Boom and the Waffle House AU was Scattered, Smothered and Covered
 
Title: Still scattered, smother, and covered
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Summary: John is reading a newspaper article about a fireworks accident. Sherlock is making hashbrowns, diner-style.


“They’re charging them with murder,” said John, nodding at the newspaper, an old-fashioned indulgence which he normally reserved for bank holiday breakfast table. “Good.”

Sherlock merely hummed. He was standing at the stove in a pink apron which read ‘Kiss my Grits.’

“Are you wearing a hairnet, Sherlock?”

“Yes.”

John let it go and returned his attention to the newspaper.

“You should be charged with murder if you run an illegal fireworks operation out of your house and that house accidentally explodes killing four people,” he continued. “We were much more responsible with our fireworks explosions.”

“Much more deliberate, too,” remarked Sherlock.

“True. But, well, two able-bodied Brits don’t go undercover in a rural American fireworks stand on accident, do they?”

“Not in the normal scheme of things. Here.” Sherlock slid the plate before John.

John gawked.

“How did you know I wanted my hashbrowns scattered (on the grill), smothered (with onions), covered (with cheese), chunked (with bits of ham), diced (with bits of tomato) and capped (with mushrooms)?”

“It’s a gift,” said Sherlock, “I still have, apparently. Happy New Year, John.”

“Happy New Year, Sherlock. More coffee?”

“Get it yourself. I’m on my break.”

“Just like the old days.”




That's it. I will not be doing this again, but I am happy and relieved I finished.

The List

Fannish 50: 2024: #1: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50: 2024: #2: Libraries
Fannish 50: 2024: #3: Facial Sheet Masks
Fannish 50: 2024: #4: Venom
Fannish 50: 2024: #5: jhope of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #6: the art of Edward Gorey
Fannish 50: 2024: #7: The works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fannish 50: 2024: #8: SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #9: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Fannish 50: 2024: #10: Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Fannish 50: 2024: #11: Honkaku & shin honkaku detective fiction
Fannish 50: 2024: #12: Audiobooks
Fannish 50: 2024: #13: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50: 2024: #14: Jazz
Fannish 50: 2024: #15: Jigsaw puzzles
Fannish 50: 2024: #16: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50: 2024: #17: Poetry
Fannish 50: 2024: #18: Chocolate
Fannish 50: 2024: #19: Detective Matthew Venn series - Ann Cleeves
Fannish 50: 2024: #20: Tarot
Fannish 50: 2024: #21: Poirot - Agatha Christie
Fannish 50: 2024: #22: The ocean
Fannish 50: 2024: #23: Hardboiled detectives/noir
Fannish 50: 2024: #24: Tea
Fannish 50: 2024: #25: Bees & honey
Fannish 50: 2024: #26: Campion - Margery Allingham
Fannish 50: 2024: #27: The language of flowers
Fannish 50: 2024: #28: The moon
Fannish 50: 2024: #29: Gervase Fen detective series - Edmund Crispin
Fannish 50: 2024: #30: James Bond
Fannish 50: 2024: #31: Jungkook of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #32: Inspector Alleyn series - Ngaio Marsh
Fannish 50: 2024: #33: Collage materials
Fannish 50: 2024: #34: RM of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #35: Nanette Hayes mysteries - Charlotte Carter
Fannish 50: 2024: #36: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Fannish 50: 2024: #37: Inspector Littlejohn series - George Bellairs
Fannish 50: 2024: #38: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #39: Autumn
Fannish 50: 2024: #40: Halloween
Fannish 50: 2024: #41: Ghost stories of MR James
Fannish 50: 2024: #42: Christmas
Fannish 50: 2024: #43: Jin of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #44: Advent calendars
Fannish 50: 2024: #45: Snoopy
Fannish 50: 2024: #46: Inspector Rebus detective series- Ian Rankin
Fannish 50: 2024: #47: Scary movies
Fannish 50: 2024: #48: V of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #49: Short stories
Fannish 50: 2024: #50: Fireworks

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, thanks, like back in the day when we used to do all those cracky Sherlock AUs.

Yes, it was a good challenge x 2.