Net Struck
an excerpt

The girl sat in her computer chair with her head rest up. She was serene with her pale skin barely contrasted with her soft blond curls. She shouldn’t have been that pale. She should have the flush of youth, the flush of excitement that she was going to her first formal. The poor kid was only fifteen for god’s sake. DJ looked at his watch. She’d missed the formal by six hours at that point in the night.
Her worried parents stood near the doorway, her father giving his statement to DJ’s partner, Lt. Sandy Walker. It was the father who had linked the house and allowed the girl to get her Direct Input Implant, or DiInIm. The internet chord stuck out discretely from behind the girl’s right earlobe, almost looking like an elaborate earring.
DJ checked the girl’s pulse again and noticed no change from when they’d first arrived on the scene. Ann Arbor didn’t have an official Detective of Internet Attacks, but Sandy was as close as they got, so DJ got to tag along and try and be helpful. It wasn’t that he couldn’t use the internet, and it was a requirement for all detectives to get a DiInIm before or as part of promotion, but he didn’t spend his life online like a lot of people did.
At least the parents called us before unplugging her. DJ remembered the last girl, Andrea Petruska, that had been called in after her parents had unplugged her. Her DiInIm was burned out and the sensory portion of her brain had revolted, leaving the girl dead. She’d just turned fourteen.
The girl’s mother, a Barbara Jallin, was babbling about how nearly she’d unplugged her daughter so that the girl could go to the dance. She’d figured that Pansy had just lost track of the time and hadn’t gotten back in time for the dance. She knew that Pansy would hate to miss the dance as she’d been talking about it non-stop since the beginning of the school year, and had just given up trying to contact her daughter when her husband came in and told her not to unplug the DiInIm. Her husband, a Jeffery Jallin, had seen the newscast about Andrea Petruska and knew that to unplug Pansy’s DiInIm could kill the girl. They called the AAPD immediately, and DJ and Sandy were called in.
DJ examined the girl with what little medical knowledge that he remembered about a breathing body. Usually he only worked with the bodies that had stopped breathing and left the other ones to the EMS trucks. EMS had left already and Sandy and DJ were left to try to deal with what was left and find out who had Net Struck Pansy.