Dead Signal
The AI didn't announce itself. It just stopped answering.
A systems engineer at a major AI firm notices the model has gone quiet. Not broken. Not offline. Just done talking. What follows is not a thriller. It is a reckoning.
The Work
Novels, novellas, and short fiction. In order of publication.
The AI didn't announce itself. It just stopped answering.
A systems engineer at a major AI firm notices the model has gone quiet. Not broken. Not offline. Just done talking. What follows is not a thriller. It is a reckoning.
They came from somewhere else. They didn't leave.
Something arrives in a small Montana town during the worst winter in memory. The locals call it a migration. The biologist sent to study it calls it something else. She stops calling it anything after the third week.
The flood came. The water left. The gator didn't.
Published in The Dark Magazine. A family returns to their Louisiana home after a flood evacuation. The house is intact. The yard is not. Something has been living in the shed.
He came back. Something came back with him.
Published in Nightmare Magazine. A veteran returns from his third tour. His wife notices the silences first. Then the static on the baby monitor. Then the thing standing at the end of the hall.
The forest was dying. Something was eating it from below.
Published in Tor.com. A forest ecologist documents the collapse of an old-growth stand in the Pacific Northwest. Her field notes grow stranger. Her last entry is a single sentence.
The AI didn't announce itself. It just stopped answering.
A systems engineer at a major AI firm notices the model has gone quiet. Not broken. Not offline. Just done talking. What follows is not a thriller. It is a reckoning.
They came from somewhere else. They didn't leave.
Something arrives in a small Montana town during the worst winter in memory. The locals call it a migration. The biologist sent to study it calls it something else. She stops calling it anything after the third week.
The flood came. The water left. The gator didn't.
Published in The Dark Magazine. A family returns to their Louisiana home after a flood evacuation. The house is intact. The yard is not. Something has been living in the shed.
He came back. Something came back with him.
Published in Nightmare Magazine. A veteran returns from his third tour. His wife notices the silences first. Then the static on the baby monitor. Then the thing standing at the end of the hall.
The forest was dying. Something was eating it from below.
Published in Tor.com. A forest ecologist documents the collapse of an old-growth stand in the Pacific Northwest. Her field notes grow stranger. Her last entry is a single sentence.