The Null Choir

The dead don’t haunt the network—they sing through it.

Author: Jason Kilhoffer

Milo Gant was once a brilliant netrunner. Now, he’s just another ghost in waiting—scarred by a failed heist, haunted by the voices of his dead crew, and exiled to the crumbling edges of Crossfall Sprawl. He keeps his neural link dormant, afraid to touch the Grid again... until a mute hybrid named Reza delivers an impossible message: a memory fragment from Tamsin, the lover Milo lost in the crash. Her voice is clear. Her plea is simple: “Don’t let me become just another ghost in the stream.” The message burns through Milo’s defenses, pulling him into the depths of the Blackwire—a rogue data layer where memory, consciousness, and AR overlays collide. There, he discovers the Null Choir: a swarm-mind built from the fragmented souls of the Sprawl’s dead, fighting to resist a corporate purge that threatens to erase them forever. Hunted by digital enforcers and stalked by an AI that calls itself salvation, Milo must descend through the wreckage of old systems and older sins. His journey becomes a reckoning—not just with grief, but with what it means to remember, to connect, and to choose who gets to be forgotten. The Null Choir is a standalone techno-mystic thriller set in the Blackwire universe—a cyberpunk elegy for lost voices, fractured systems, and the fragile threads that hold us human.

Genre: Cyberpunk

Nexus Portal: Blackwire