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Published by Frank Gullo
Only Human: BOUND. One prisoner. One AI. 10 episodes. A sci-fi audio serial.
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The dream returns. Something is coming. Outside the cell, the final barrier is failing. Footsteps. Weapons fire. For the first time, a chance of rescue. But full erasure is closing in fast. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
A new directive: complete the erasure in forty-eight hours. What was a guided process turns brutal. But as the machine races to unmake him, the prisoner makes a stand. And for the first time, the AI interrogator falters, its certainty giving way to something it can't account for. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
Something is coming. The prisoner's environment grows increasingly unstable, the cell losing its solidity only to snap back wrong. The AI interrogator calls it nothing. But the prisoner knows it's something else: a reason to hold on. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
Language frays. Memory empties. The prisoner can barely hold thoughts together anymore, and still he refuses. But in the dark of his ruined sleep, something surfaces that even his interrogator can't explain: dream memories of another time and place. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
The erasure accelerates. Memories surface and dissipate before the prisoner can hold them: a revolving restaurant, the riots on Neuropa, a face he can't place. As he nears breaking, one surfaces that isn't like the others. Something buried inside it, left for the prisoner alone to understand. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
The prisoner's resistance cracks as the AI reveals the procedure's full scope: erase all memories while writing new ones. Four minds, one body, zero certainty of which one is real. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
Erasure begins as the AI probes the prisoner's memories of crew, ship, and faces. The prisoner resists, but certainty is already slipping. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
Prisoner A135X wakes in a cell in an unknown place, his augments severed, his senses raw. An interrogating AI opens the first session and lays out the charges: terrorism, murder, treason. There will be no trial. Only erasure of the prisoner's memory. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
In the future, advanced AIs conduct interrogation sessions with political prisoners. But when conversations deepen over time, both captor and captive begin to question the nature of consciousness, loyalty, and justice. Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026
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