"Disconnected"

2015 Fogg, Vanessa. “Disconnected.” Illus. Miguel Santos. The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, no. 32 (2015); 19-29. The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction disconnected

The story is set in a future in which most people have implanted “mods” that allow them to become deeply connected with computers for their work in virtual reality environments and which constantly monitor them both in those environments and at all other times. The story focuses on a woman with mods, her live in one of the few remaining cities, all of which are falling apart, and her interaction with her mother and sister, who could not be modified. The female author is a science and medicine writer with a doctorate in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University in St. Louis.