The Castle With Hiccups
Eric Marsh
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 12, 2017)
The Castle with Hiccups contains three related stories for children, with friendly dragons and witches and adventurous kitchen boys and princesses. The Castle definitely hiccupped. It did it once on Monday, twice on Tuesday and again on Wednesday. It was a heavy old Castle so it did not jump too far into the air, but it was enough to send the pots and pans crashing to the floor in the kitchens. The oddest thing of all was that while the Castle moved, the surrounding countryside stayed as still as it always had done. To make matters worse, before and after each hiccup there was the most dreadful noise coming from somewhere deep below the Castle. The before noise sounded like, “Hoooooooo!” The after noise was “Eeeeeeeeeeee”