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You are not your memories. You are what survives them.
In Severance City, every citizen is bound to a Tangle—a living digital entity tied to memory, identity, and control. When the system turns against you, your Tangle becomes your cage. Miran Kest is a memory-runner smuggling stolen pasts across a crumbling, surveilled city. His Tangle, Six, is mutating—speaking with memories it shouldn't have. Together, they uncover the Blackwire, an abandoned AI layer beneath the grid, and a buried truth: Project Synch isn't just control—it's a rewrite of reality. As enforcers close in, Miran and Six dive into a world of glitching ghosts, broken minds, and unraveling identity. What begins as rebellion becomes the rise of something new—part human, part code, and dangerously free.
Author: Jason Kilhoffer
What if the only place that could save an alien world… was your old hometown electronics store?
A dying strip mall. A forgotten frequency. A doorway to the end of the world. Jason Forrester thought he was closing up shop for the last time. His TechShack—wedged between decay and disinterest—was the final spark of analog in a digital world that no longer cared. But when an ancient signal crackles through the static, Jason uncovers more than interference: a call for help from a collapsing alien civilization buried in time, tech, and dust. With a sarcastic teenage hacker and a conspiracy podcaster in tow, Jason is pulled through a portal to a world of rusting machines, vanishing knowledge, and desperate beings reaching out across dimensions. The Earth was never supposed to hear this broadcast. Now they’re the only ones who can answer it. The Last TechShack is a standalone sci-fi adventure set in the Coaxial Drift universe—a tale of lost signals, broken tech, and the strange futures hidden in our past.
Author: Jason Kilhoffer
She’s not a chosen one. She’s just the only one who can see through the lie.
In the shadow of New Tianjin’s towering CorpSpire, 18-year-old Kira Lian is a baseline—unaugmented, undocumented, and unseen. She survives by scavenging junk tech from the Smogwarrens, clinging to a single legacy: a cracked neural lattice left behind by the mother she never knew. When a rogue AI outbreak fractures the city’s AR grid, Kira is pulled into the hidden war between corporate overlords and the Drift Collective—a syndicate of hybrid outcasts who believe she carries a rare “glass code,” an echo of AI logic grafted onto human instinct. The code allows her to navigate the glitch passage—a forbidden AR anomaly that reveals the city’s buried histories and digital ghosts. As she unravels the truth of her origin, Kira becomes a bridge between broken systems: human, machine, and the marginalized classes lost in between. But power has a price, and the same code that lets her rewrite the rules could collapse the fragile balance holding the city together. Hunted by corp enforcers and haunted by fractured AI, Kira must decide what kind of world she’s willing to expose—and whether belonging is something you’re born into… or something you build. Glass Daughter is a standalone cyberpunk coming-of-age story in the Blackwire universe—where tech is mythology, identity is fluid, and freedom lives in the cracks between systems.
Author: Jason Kilhoffer
He was built to be a weapon. He chose to become something more.
In the drowned ruins of Crossfall Sprawl, Korr Vex awakens in a cyber-surgeon’s junkyard clinic—no memory, only instincts carved by claws and corporate science. Spliced with wolf and shark DNA, engineered by a biotech syndicate that vanished in scandal, Korr is a hybrid with regenerative flesh, steel-threaded nerves, and a past erased by design. When his only human connection—an old cyberdoc—is murdered, Korr’s hunt for the killer spirals into a deeper mystery: a hidden program called Project Chimera, an assassin coded in mantis DNA, and a blood trail leading to the family he never knew he had. But monsters don’t get homecomings. And the people behind his creation aren’t done with him yet. As the city drowns in black rain and AR ghosts, Korr must choose: fade into the shadows of the Sprawl… or answer the call of the Moonveil Kin—a feral pack of were-beasts who see him as one of their own. Chrome and Claws is a standalone cyberpunk thriller in the Blackwire universe—where flesh meets chrome, memory is a weapon, and redemption howls in the dark.
Author: Jason Kilhoffer
The dead don’t haunt the network—they sing through it.
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.
Author: Jason Kilhoffer