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    Going Gently: Netwalk Sequence
    Going Gently: Netwalk Sequence
    Going Gently: Netwalk Sequence
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    Going Gently: Netwalk Sequence

    By Joyce Reynolds-Ward

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    An urgent summons from her daughter Bess brings Melanie to the side of her dying brother Andrew. Andrew has rejected uploading into Netwalk--but circumstances may change that decision. What choice will Andrew make...and how does it affect Melanie's infant granddaughter Kylee?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoyce Reynolds-Ward
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386141297
    Going Gently: Netwalk Sequence
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    Joyce Reynolds-Ward

    Joyce Reynolds-Ward splits her time between Portland and Enterprise, Oregon. A former special education teacher, Joyce also enjoys horses, skiing, and other outdoor activities. She's had short stories and essays published in First Contact Café, Tales from an Alien Campfire, River, How Beer Saved the World 1 and 2, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, and Trust and Treachery. Her novels Netwalk: Expanded Edition, Netwalker Uprising, Life in the Shadows: Diana and Will, Netwalk’s Children, and Alien Savvy as well as other works are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and other sources. Alien Savvy is also available in audiobook through Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Follow Joyce's adventures through her blog, Peak Amygdala, at www.joycereynoldsward.com, or through her LiveJournal at joycemocha. Joyce’s Amazon Central page is located at http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Reynolds-Ward/e/B00HIP821Y.

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      Going Gently - Joyce Reynolds-Ward

      GOING GENTLY

      A NETWALK SEQUENCE SHORT STORY

      BY

      JOYCE REYNOLDS-WARD

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental.

      Going Gently © 2018 by Joyce Reynolds-Ward.

      Cover image © 2018 by Pavel Chagochkin (chagpg) purchased through Depositphotos, design by Joyce Reynolds-Ward

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Distribution is handled by the author, and all requests for redistribution should be directed to the author.

      Andrew is not doing well. He wants to talk to you. I think you’d better come to Tranquility soon. Bess.

      Melanie Fielding felt every atom of her ninety-some years as she hesitated in the doorway of Tranquility Base’s VIP invalid’s lounge. The acrid, gunpowdery scent of lunar dust dried her nostrils and her legs still quivered from spaceflight as she leaned on her cane. Even at one-sixth gravity her bum knee threatened to give way underneath her if she put her weight on it.

      Thank you for nothing, stroke. It had been three years. Despite aggressive physical therapy, this was as good as things would get. Without the cane her balance was off, even on the Moon.

      I’m really too old for this.

      If it wasn’t for the urgency of Bess’s message, she wouldn’t be here. But—Andrew needed to talk to her. She’d promised she would come as needed when his medical team recommended he leave Earth for this facility. Hopefully she wasn’t too late for Drew to say whatever was on his mind. But just as her brother couldn’t leave the Moon for Earth without detailed transition preparation, she couldn’t leave Earth without transition prep of her own. She didn’t think her daughter would have forgotten that and left the call until too late. Then again, Bess was a new mother once again, this time with twins.

      Four kids. How can she do it and run Do It Right Space? Melanie had faced many challenges running Do It Right with just one kid. Bess with four? Crazy.

      A mix of beds, recliners, and tables with standard chairs faced the windows. No one sat at the tables right now. Two of the closest occupants of the recliners glanced quickly at Melanie, then looked away. No one she recognized, though she knew that there were former colleagues from her years working with the Corporate Courts placed here.

      No one she wanted to see, though, except Andrew. It was a relief that no one wanted to greet her. Maybe she should have waited for Bess instead of heading directly for this lounge on her arrival at Tranquility, but, damn it, that would lead to being grandma and then to retired Do It Right Corporate President quizzing down the DIR Space Division head, and—well, she wanted to talk to

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