Warriors
Jon works hard to prevent a young man from juvenile detention, but begins to doubt his own motives.
May 1, 2011
Featured stories
– and their starting date in the lives of our characters
Portrait of a Killer
Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend. Is it time to get rid of her gun, too?
February 13, 2004
That Which Cannot Be Broken
When Carrie is a witness to bikers assaulting a man, she has to make yet another choice about life or death.
September 7, 2003
His Last and First Breath
Jons miraculous survival in a flash flood sets off a confrontation with his PTSD from the Iraq war. And it may just destroy his family.
October 7, 2018
Like Blood In A Darkroom
Carrie, Lin, Lars and Alan meet for one last time in an isolated holiday house to party all night before they go their separate ways after high school. But as the clock ticks toward new year, only one thing is truly clear about the future: That nothing is.
December 1, 1997
Boats Against The Current
What would you do if you had ruined the first meeting with someone who could have been your best friend? Carrie has to find out quickly after her first meeting with Lin – at an insane party where everyone has a secret.
December 15, 1995
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Carrie and the eternal struggle between creativity and life. [Vignette]
June 25, 2021
Not To Tell Another Lie
Carrie gives up her ‘passion business’, but what should she do instead?
May 28, 2021
Shade of the Morning Sun is ...
an online collection of linked short stories
contemporary electronic literature
a family saga spanning three generations
Meet the author
Christopher Marcus
Reflections about ...
Electronic literature
“In general, as I have taken to saying to colleagues suspicious of all the buzz about digital technologies, the stake for literary studies in the digital age is not first of all technological. It is to follow the living language of human thought, hope, love, desire—and hate too—wherever it goes and wherever it has the capacity to be literary, even if the form, style, or grammar of such literariness does not always conform to canonical standards.”
– professor Alan Liu, “From reading to social computing” in Literary Studies in the Digital Age – An Evolving Anthology
Short stories
“[Virginia Woolf] said of photography; ‘Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life?’ This gives us, I think, a clue to the enduring power and appeal of the short story – short stories are snapshots of the human condition and of human nature, and when they work well, and work on us, we are given the rare chance to see in them more ‘than in real life.’.”
– William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart and Brazzaville Beach
Novels in stories
“Life is a loose-flowing thing. There are no plot stories in life.”
– Sherwood Anderson
Thanks to all the wonderful photographers who kindly made their photos available for creative commons use!