Opt-Out

by Steve Umstead

A massive global social network announces an initiative to encourage its nearly one billion users to donate organs and body parts with just the click of a mouse. Millions of potential transplant recipients rejoice, but there is a dark side. For a young, newly engaged professional in Portland Oregon, that dark side arrives wearing a smile and designer suit during a chance encounter at a train station.


What are the pitfalls and dangers of socially networking body parts? Should you OPT-OUT?

ebook

First published May 2, 2012

About the author

Steve Umstead has been the owner of a Caribbean & Mexico travel company for the past ten years, but never forgot his lifelong dream of becoming an author. After a successful stab at National Novel Writing Month, he decided to pursue his dream more vigorously…but hasn't given up the traveling.

Steve lives in scenic (tongue-in-cheek) New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and several bookshelves full of other authors' science fiction novels. Gabriel's Redemption is his debut novel.

Reviews

[Miranda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short and sweet; it really makes you wonder what we might see in the future...

[Caleb J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short story is clever, fun and amusing and especially short. Eye Don't See why they call it a book instead of a short story. ;-)