Shade of the Morning Sun is the ongoing fictional story about Carrie R. Sawyer, and a lot of other people who knew her, loved her or – (more often than you’d expect) – wanted to kill her.
Shade of the Morning Sun is written (mostly) as if it was told by Carrie herself to the author, and is a crazy experiment if there ever was one:
… It’s not really a book online – but it could’ve been.
… It’s not really a short story anthology online, although it comes close.
… It’s not a roleplaying game, online or otherwise – although it possesses some features thereof.
It’s more like… a fictive account of a single person’s life, a kind of biography, as told by that person herself and her biographer – in the form of fictional stories allegedly based on Carrie’s accounts of events in her life.
The stories are published online, in a bloggish format and continually expanded with entries from many different years of Carrie’s life.
Entries are date-marked but published in no particular chronological order and with blatant irregularity. Please, deal with it. (I have.)
Lightoversea.com is the web site-in-making of Lightoversea Publishing – the official virtual publishing house of the Shade of the Morning Sun-stories.
The idea for the stories about Carrie Reese Sawyer (née McDonnell) originated almost 10 years ago and they have gone through a lot of permutations since.
I don’t really expect that to stop, but it’s been fun – and at times a little scary – to experience how a fictional character can take on a life of her own, and become as real to you – almost – as real people.
So real, in fact, that you really (no pun intended) have no choice but to allow her to exist. Hence Shade of the Morning Sun.
Saner minds would probably suggest that my 20 year+ love affair with the wondrous world(s) of role-playing games is not entirely without responsibility for all of this. And they’d probably be right.But who cares, as long as it’s good fun and doesn’t hurt anyone. I don’t.
So … I hope you will enjoy sharing Carrie’s life as much as I have. Rest assured, it’s never going to be boring.
And that’s a promise.
- Christopher Marcus