Sorry

Got hit with a heck of a lot of schoolwork over the past week or so. I’ll put up all the missed updates tomorrow.

Chapter One: The Pipe

Martin tried the door again, then checked his keys. No, his house key was still with Mom. He tried the handle again, despite knowing full well that it wouldn’t budge. He opened the mail slot and put his face right in front of it.

“Hellooo! Helll-oooo?” he yelled through the thin opening.

Martin turned around, surveying the neighborhood. Now he hoped his mom would get home sooner. He didn’t want to wait right in front of his house for an hour, unable to get in. The clouds above him were a bit of a lighter gray, and Martin doubted now that rain was coming. He sighed, walked to the curb, and sat, waiting, for a few bored minutes.

He decided to take a walk. His mom would take a while to get here, and it beat sitting in the car listening to bad radio. It was good exercise, too. Martin looked up again, smoothing his brown hair, and got up.

Maybe I’ll go down near my old house, he decided.

Chapter One: Overcast

“Late.”

Mr. Demev looked up from his desk, face creased with age and disappointment. He wasn’t even looking at the stapled collection of papers that Martin had just laid on his desk.

“But, I need-”

The teacher cut him off by tapping a sign displayed just above his head. It read, “NO LATE WORK.”

Martin continued anyway, saying, “I- I need this assignment, sir. I was absent yesterday.”

“Unexcused.”

“Mr. Demev, my mom just hasn’t written the note yet, and I need this grade! It’ll all be worked out - “

The bell rang over the intercom, cutting him short.

“You may have a seat, Mr. Clovis,” the teacher said, handing the project back up to his student.

Introduction

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to the world of Red Sunrise.

Red Sunrise is a fantasy webserial in a modern setting, concentrating on Martin Clovis, a disaffected teenager who has suddenly found himself the object of a titanic confrontation between two opposing covert organizations.

He quickly falls under the controlling and dubious protection of Pyramid, one of those sides. Embroiled in the center of a dangerous war where neither side has his best intrests at heart, Martin will be forced to question the motives of both Pyramid and Astrum, the cult-like opposition, and even the nature of his birth.

Updates will be twice (or more) weekly, usually on weekends. The first entry will be tomorrow.