Welcome to the #AtoZChallenge at Sorchia’s Universe. Find Episodes 1-8 HERE Episode 9: Icy Curses Episode 10: Jagged Rocks and Jolting Reality Episode 11: Kinship Will Out Episode 12: Lodestone “A Cold Spring” by Sorchia DuBois Episode 13: Magic of the Darker Kind Stately stewards carried in the main course on silver platters—a savory roast seasoned with rosemary and thyme. The sumptuous fragrance drew oohs and ahhs from the assemblage. Cutlery clinked on the […]
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Welcome to the #AtoZChallenge at Sorchia’s Universe. Find Episodes 1-8 HERE Episode 9: Icy Curses Episode 10: Jagged Rocks and Jolting Reality Episode 11: Kinship Will Out “A Cold Spring” by Sorchia DuBois Episode 12: Lodestone High above the castle, a waning moon rose in the indigo sky. The silver bell announced dinner, but Maddock and I trailed behind the chattering laughing crowd as they moved toward the grand dining room. Maddock pressed a […]
Welcome to the #AtoZChallenge at Sorchia’s Universe. Find Episodes 1-8 HERE Episode 9: Icy Curses Episode 10: Jagged Rocks and Jolting Reality “A Cold Spring” by Sorchia DuBois Episode 11: Kinship Will Out In the ensuing years, Aunt Clarissa and I discovered many of our kin whose wits had not been so muddled with wine or so shocked with disbelief that they could not escape the carnage of Old Highmoor Castle. Still and all, […]
Welcome to Sorchia’s Universe! Find Episodes 1-8 HERE Episode 9: Icy Curses “A Cold Spring” by Sorchia DuBois Episode 10: Jagged Rocks and Jarring Reality I awoke hours later to a world which bore little resemblance to the one I remembered. The steady drip, drip, drip of cold water on my head from jagged rocks on the cavern roof roused me from a muddled dream. I lay snuggled in Aunt Clarissa’s ermine cloak on the dusty floor […]
Welcome to Sorchia’s Universe! Find Episodes 1-8 HERE “A Cold Spring” by Sorchia DuBois Episode 9: Icy Curse Aunt Clarissa always called me her favorite, but that didn’t matter. She’d caught me conspiring with La Croixs. All the stories I’d heard of such things flashed across my mind. None of them ended well. “Allium,” she said, eyeing me with a glittering green eye. “Which of these boys set Aunt Marzipan’s hair on fire? The poor thing is […]
Week 2 of the Fabulous #AtoZChallenge. If you are just discovering the story, here is a pdf of THE STORY SO FAR. [pdf-embedder url=”https://sorchiadubois.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/A-Cold-Spring-1-through-7.pdf” title=”A Cold Spring 1 through 7″] Download it HERE. Episode 8: Hijinks at the Castle Hideous cold and blinding flashes of icy blue light blur into one when I try to recall what happened the night Lucia divided the long history of the Darkmore and La Croix families into two parts: The Time Before […]