Another DayBreak Magazine story about virtual people: She's All Light by LaShawn M. Wanak tells the story of what happens when someone you love decides to get uploaded. In many ways it's the usual SF ideas of what happens when the body is taken away and only the mind exists in virtual space, however the angle is personal, the view from a close relationship rather than the metaphysical questions.
I found the ultra colloquial speak a bit grating, once the story settled down from the stylistic quirks it got better. Experimentation is fine, but the IM txt spk comment threads didn't add much for me and instead seemed like a way of re-enforcing what I'd already gathered.
The end sections were nice though, the cyberpunky online stuff taking a back seat to the emotional issues of uploading.
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