Feed Cut

Miami, 1989.Reporter Lena Caine leaves a late-night shift after uncovering something she shouldn't—a fire that wasn't destruction, but rehearsal.She never makes it home.Weeks later, a blank cassette appears in the newsroom air duct. When played, it contains Lena's voice from the night she vanished, along with a signal buried in static—her name, repeating in Morse code.Then the broadcasts begin.Every full moon, Lena's old reports air again, unchanged—except for one frame. A single loop where Lena is no longer reporting the story. She's filming something else.She's filming the viewers.Living rooms. Faces. Reflections. The screen doesn't just play anymore. It watches.As the signal spreads, televisions refuse to turn off, recordings rewrite themselves, and those connected to Lena's final investigation begin to realize the truth:The fire was never the story.The broadcast was.Feed Cut is a chilling analog horror novella blending media paranoia, supernatural dread, and psychological unraveling. It explores what happens when information doesn't just spread—but feeds, adapts, and turns its attention back on you.Once you're in the frame, you don't get to leave.Miami, 1989.Reporter Lena Caine leaves a late-night shift after uncovering something she shouldn't—a fire that wasn't destruction, but rehearsal.She never makes it home.Weeks later, a blank cassette appears in the newsroom air duct. When played, it contains Lena's voice from the night she vanished, along with a signal buried in static—her name, repeating in Morse code.Then the broadcasts begin.Every full moon, Lena's old reports air again, unchanged—except for one frame. A single loop where Lena is no longer reporting the story. She's filming something else.She's filming the viewers.Living rooms. Faces. Reflections. The screen doesn't just play anymore. It watches.As the signal spreads, televisions refuse to turn off, recordings rewrite themselves, and those connected to Lena's final investigation begin to realize the truth:The fire was never the story.The broadcast was.Feed Cut is a chilling analog horror novella blending media paranoia, supernatural dread, and psychological unraveling. It explores what happens when information doesn't just spread—but feeds, adapts, and turns its attention back on you.Once you're in the frame, you don't get to leave.