Ona Jo-Ellan Bass

Short Story Press Presents Search The Ethernet Ona Jo-Ellan Bass

"Search the Ethernet" is set in a quiet neighborhood in Central City, in Some State, in the US. The characters include a single mom, her children and dog, and a gaming group who are meeting for an evening of fun, as well as a lot of people who know how to say, "I don't think I can help you".

It encapsulates a crisis on what should have been a quiet evening of just hanging out online and having fun.
You will enjoy this story if you:

- Play role-playing games, on screen or table-top.
- Like mystery stories.
- Enjoy family oriented short stories.
- Believe that we are all responsible for each other in this world.
- Have online friends.
- Believe that online friends are more than a pixel paper dolls.
- Know someone who substitutes gaming for activities because they are ill or disabled.
- Have ever realized you only know someone by their character name.
- Like reading stories based on the Heinleinian writing principal of "if this goes on".
- Know someone who has cancer, diabetes or any other debilitating illness. This story is about the friendships that can be forged online through MMORPG's, and is for the good friends I have made through my Guild.

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