Somatic Render

Declan Shaw works the graveyard shift at a brutalist research hospital, monitoring a comatose patient tethered to an experimental neural-rendering machine. Designed to translate raw brainwaves into real-time visual feeds, the machine shows something impossible: the patient's "dream avatar" getting out of bed and staring directly at the camera.

The horror transcends the digital when the real-world security monitors catch the same entity roaming the halls, even though the patient's physical bo...