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A six-page digital colour comic. Page 1, three panels showing various views of Sussex chalk cliffs, the seashore, and a bee on flowering thyme. The text reads “It is a most singular thing to be free of the burden of expectations and propriety. To be with the one I love by the soft, soothing sound of the waves, among the wild thyme, and the humming of the bees.”ALT
Page 2, four panels alternating between various close-ups of Holmes getting dressed and Watson reading, seemingly in different rooms. Watson says “Holmes… this manuscript of yours…” and Holmes answers “Watson, if you don’t like it, you can write it up yourself.” Watson continues “I didn’t say that. It’s… embellished to say the least.” And Holmes quotes “His sin was that the Secret to the wide world he professed.”ALT
Page 3, three small panels at the top showing various corners around their house. The bottom panel shows Holmes reaching over to grab Watson’s reading material, Watson looks up and says “Your secrets are safe with me.”ALT
Page 4, Holmes kisses Watson on the forehead and answers “Quite so, Doctor.” He finishes tying his tie and says “But you must not neglect your public. File this one for our old days.”ALT
Page 5, Holmes looks over to a picture of the Reichenbach Falls hanging above the mantlepiece and continues “Give your readers nothing but a pale image of the truth. The detective of the page is not the real me.” Watson asks “Then who is the real you?”ALT
Page 6, Holmes looks at the landscape through the window. His next words echo over a view of their small cottage in the Downs, “A far happier man, at ease in his mind and body, at home in a quiet place by the sea”ALT

My main contribution to the wonderful @very-sincerely-yours-zine anthology, a comic on home, being with the one you love, and ageing into your best self. Thanks again to the amazing @haedraulics and @inevitablies for organising such a lovely project, and of course to everyone else involved for making it happen so splendidly! My personal goal for this short comic was twofold: to write something about an older Holmes who happens to be trans but which doesn't focus too much on it, and of course to finally let him quote Hafez as accurately as a period-accurate translation of Hafez would let him.

Physical copies of the book are now sold out, but the digital version will remain for sale indefinitely with all profits benefitting PCRF! You can also browse most works online.