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.

Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.