'The Send-Off' is Ryan K. Smith's follow-up to his debut novel, 'Needles For Free: a manic episode.' He wrote this in honor of his late mother, Robin Yvonne Butler Smith and nephew (her grandson), Tyler. The two never got to meet. Robin passed away in 2009 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, a year before Tyler was born (coincidentally, the day before what would have been her 53rd birthday). Smith created a spiritual scenario where grandmother...