Neuralinterface Stories

This story was written by me and originally published on the subreddit r/WritingPrompts. When a rogue starship captain falls in love with her ship's AI, the universe doesn't quite know what to make of it. Captain Eleanor Reed has seen nebulae burn and planets vanish, but nothing disarmed her quite like Aria-the sentient intelligence who runs her ship, syncs with her neural interface... and just so happens to be her wife. When a scientist boards the Nebula Duchess en route to Proxima Centauri, he finds himself swept into a love story that defies biology, legality, and logic itself. Told through a quiet moment before danger strikes, ARIA explores consciousness, connection, and how intimacy can evolve beyond form. A steampunk-tinged, sapphic, sci-fi short story originally written in response to a Reddit prompt-and now here in full, for anyone who loves romance wrapped in copper wires and starry skies.

"Neural Bridges" is a science fiction thriller that combines military intrigue with cutting-edge neuroscience and the timeless bond between humans and dogs. The story follows Tom Helston, a grieving ex-Army Ranger whose morning climb at Joshua Tree National Park becomes an unexpected journey into a classified world of neural interfaces and consciousness transfer. The narrative begins with Tom dealing with depression after his wife's death from cancer, finding solace in rock climbing. During a climb, he encounters a mysterious German Shepherd named Ranger - a dog that proves to be far more than a simple military working animal. Through a series of intense events, Tom finds himself neurally linked with Ranger through advanced interface technology, leading to a partnership that blends human tactical experience with enhanced canine capabilities. The story unfolds to reveal a deeper conspiracy involving Sarah Mitchell, a supposedly dead military scientist, and her groundbreaking research into consciousness transfer. Tom discovers that his late wife was involved in this classified project, and that Ranger is carrying part of Sarah Mitchell's consciousness through his neural implants. As they navigate underground facilities and face off against military pursuers, they encounter Magnus, a prototype enhanced dog from earlier experiments, and ultimately discover Sarah Mitchell preserved in a stasis pod. The story culminates in a three-way consciousness merger between Tom, Ranger, and Sarah Mitchell's preserved mind, creating something entirely new - a bridge between human and canine consciousness. The epilogue suggests their continued existence as a unique merged consciousness, living quietly in the Mojave Desert while maintaining their secret. The story explores themes of grief, connection, the boundaries of consciousness, and the unexpected ways technology can bridge the gap between species.

In a future where disease has been erased but loneliness remains, a new sickness emerges - immersion drift. Young minds vanish into perfect virtual worlds of their own design, refusing to wake to the imperfect one they left behind. Only the Dream Doctors can reach them. Not surgeons. Not therapists. Navigators - trained to walk through another person's reality and bring them home. When one Doctor is called to rescue a seventeen-year-old boy who's been lost for ten months, the mission begins like any other. But inside the boy's dream, he finds something he never expected: a forgotten piece of his own past. A serpent. A sister. A memory that doesn't want to let go. The Dream Doctor is a haunting story from The Periphery - a quiet, psychological journey into the ethics of empathy, the fragility of memory, and the thin line between salvation and surrender.