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, […]
2017 A-Z Blog Challenge
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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 […]
Here is a perk for being a subscriber to Sorchia’s Universe. Below, you’ll find a nice PDF of the Story So Far along with Episode 8 which won’t be out for the rest of the world until Monday. (I’ll do this every Sunday in April so stay tuned.) As I’ve mentioned in comments, this story reads best as a straight short story. If you want to see the whole thing so far in one chunk–or if you are just discovering the […]
Welcome to Sorchia’s Universe—A-Z Blog Edition. Day 4! Have you just discovered the story? Never fear–Here are links to the previous episodes (300-500 words each.) Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 If you enjoy this story, take a look at the Books link to see what else I write. A Cold Spring Episode 4: Down, Down Down I fall to my knees. Earth and air vibrate like an earthquake in a bottle. Steel gray clouds boil in […]