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A cat watches a full moon--very noir.

A Cold Spring–Episode 11: Kinship Will Out

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, […]

A cat watches a full moon--very noir.

A Cold Spring–Episode 10: Jagged Rocks and Jarring Reality

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 […]

A cat watches a full moon--very noir.

A Cold Spring–Episode 9: Icy Curse

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 […]

A Cold Spring–Episode 8: Hijinks at the Castle

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 […]

A cat watches a full moon--very noir.

Catch Up and Get a Peek at Episode 8

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 […]

A cat watches a full moon--very noir.

A Cold Spring–Episode 7: Goblets of Fine, Old Wine

Welcome to Sorchia’s Universe—A-Z Blog Edition. This post marks the end of the first full week of the 2017 A-Z Blog Challenge. How’s it going? Be sure to leave comments and Likes on the posts you visit–including this one. Have you missed an episode? Here are posts to the Story So Far. Episode 1: A Cherry Tomato Episode 2: Burning! Episode 3: Coils of Enchantment Episode 4: Down, Down, Down Episode 5: Everything Changed Episode 6: Fashionably Late If you enjoy […]