Short Story Press Presents Search The Ethernet

Short Story Press Presents Search The Ethernet by 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.