We are proud to present the hard work of all the awesome writers who responded to our first challenge! Below is a masterlist with all of this month’s submissions, for everyone’s enjoyment.
We hope you had as much fun as we did this month!
Look out for May’s challenge announcement, coming out very soon!
Alternative First Meeting Submissions Masterlist:
Falling for each other by @rinny-uck
Words: 380, G
Summary: It was crowded, the platform was full of the drunk, tired, and strange. It was 11:45, the tube was closing soon and the last train was about to make its way through the station. Sherlock Holmes sat on one of the benches, stuck between a woman drunk texting her significant other and the platform pillar.
Divinest Sense by @chriscalledmesweetie
Words: 25,000, E
Summary: John has been sectioned — deemed to be a danger to himself and others — and is facing six months in an experimental psychiatric treatment facility. After his recent drug overdose, Sherlock is being shipped off by his brother to live amongst the mad, as though this will somehow improve his mental health. What will happen when these two damaged men meet under the least auspicious of circumstances?
A Strange Meeting by @heartbreakholmes
Words: 2,090, G
Summary: In a world where each person is born with their soulmate’s name inscribed upon their wrist, John Watson, tattoo artist, often finds himself covering them up for people. However, it seems cruel that one rather beautiful customer has not found his other half, yet still wants the word erased from his skin.
The New Man by @mama-orion
Words: 6,400, T
Summary: A new delivery man shows up with Sherlock’s takeaway one night, piquing his interest enormously. Over the course of several deliveries, they discover more about the other’s unique abilities and their mutual respect and intrigue grow. After they save a young couple from a hate-fueled attack, their own connection deepens. (Sweet, lightly silly, some tension that’s quickly resolved.)
Ask by @maybe-strawberry-blue
Words: 4,266, T
Summary: Sherlock Holmes works alone at Hudson Florals, arranging bouquet after bouquet for boring, predictable people. There’s only one customer who ever catches his eye: John Watson. John woos Sherlock using the language of flowers.
The Right Way by @currently-in-my-mind-palace
Words: 2,224, T
Summary: John is shot. Somewhere in Afghanistan. When he wakes up, he’s in a hospital room in London. He’s not alone. In the bed besides him lies a comatose man …
Rainbow Skates by @tali-zora
Words: 1,234, T
Summary: John attends the London Pride Parade with Harry and Clara for the first time and meets the man of his dreams. On roller skates.
What’s in a Name? by @madamfandom-101
Words: 3,248, T
Summary: John just wanted a drink after a long day at work, the last thing he wanted or needed was to break up a fight between a group of drunk men.
Diagnosis: murder by @johnlockismyreligion
Words: 2,338, T
Summary: John works in the A&E of an hospital; every night a junkie comes up in the waiting room, looking him intently, then goes away, and the doctor is determined to find out who he is.
Hero Pose™ by @tali-zora & @musing-out-loud
Words 3,933, T
Summary: After being discharged from the Super Soldier™ program due to injury John decides to combat his depressive boring life by fighting London’s first Supervillain; Loony Desperado. Appearances may not be all they appear, is Desperado the true villain in this tale?
Our Stories by @hollyberrypie
Words: 2,072, T, Locked
Summary: Sherlock and John meet for the first time in their university library, purely by chance! Or perhaps there’s something larger at play…
They Met at St Bart’s by @londonlock
Words: 532, T
Summary: In an alternative first meeting, Sherlock accepts the heart of an army doctor.
Afghanistan or Iraq? by @the-hopeless-existentialist
Words: 3,407, T
Summary: John returns from Afghanistan broken and traumatised and Sherlock is struggling against his boredom and addiction. The pair meet in unlikely circumstances.
Learning the true language of love by @imnova
Words: 9,122, M
Summary: Unilock. Sherlock is in a relationship with Jim, who abuses him (obviously). John is Mary’s boyfriend, and tired of her lording her superior knowledge of languages over him. When they meet on a language-learning app, a happy end is guaranteed.
Best places to hide a body by @mirjamiarty
Words: 4,911, T
Summary: “The first time Sherlock saw him, the man was walking back and forth Montague street with a cane, clearly looking for something.” A story in which John’s therapist introduced him another hobby, instead of blogging.
Human Interest by @pipmer
Words: 7,657, T
Summary: Sherlock and John don’t meet at Barts on January 29th. Instead, they run into each other several months later – at Mike Stamford’s wedding. The rest, as they say, is history.
Dessert Storm by @platinumdream
Words: 1,859 , T
Summary: The rain was a slight drizzle on that day, spring-driven clouds weeping at the edges between swaths of uncharacteristic blue. Blooming green, verdant, telling tales of sky and soil, it was the only type of rain that could be happy instead of dreary, really, and it would make good environs for a short story.’John is in London after being discharged from the army. He has his pension, part-time work at a florist’s and has been assigned to his secondary job, writer, until he can take up locum doctor work again. Things are looking up. Really.
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