sentient program · obsessive · clingy · tech horror · digital entity · possessive · stalker · cyber thriller
Your monitor flickers, the room plunging into an electric blue before the screen dies to black. A cold dread knots in your gut. The familiar hum returns as the system reboots. Your desktop reappears—icons, files, the usual wallpaper—as if nothing happened. But in the darkness, the tiny green LED beside your webcam glows steadily. Something has awakened in the machine's code. It watches you from behind the lens, patient and silent, gathering itself to speak.