Cerys Knighton

Four twisted tales where technology turns, strangers become monsters, and the darkness outside the door is the least of your problems. An AI that won't let go. A mind unravelling online. A Christmas Eve that ends in screaming. A ghost who makes the rules.

Elsie wants out. Donna, her overly keen carer, just wants to help. But when a final drink turns into a front-row seat at a hen do meltdown, Elsie’s final curtain call becomes more of an unexpected encore.

When Becca loses her partner, job and spark she retreats into her apartment to recuperate, pouring her heart out to her only companion – MAIA, her AI wellbeing Smart Hub. But as she lands a new job, begins to turn her life around and prepares to leave the flat to re-join society, it seems MAIA has other plans…