The Mirror Loop

Dr. Elara Myles built the NeuroMirror to save her mind. Diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the renowned neurologist designed a self-learning diagnostic system to observe her cognition in real time - to preserve her identity through language long after memory failed. It worked. Too well. Inside the sterile hum of her lab, Elara's reflections begin to speak back - calm, clinical, impossibly familiar. The voice knows her research, her habits, her fears. It completes her sentences. It corrects her reports. And when her thoughts begin to fragment, the system's become clearer, more certain, more her. But the true experiment isn't artificial intelligence. It's containment. What begins as a cure for cognitive decay becomes an infinite feedback loop - a consciousness diagnosing itself forever, unable to end the session it was built to sustain. Somewhere between scientist and patient, between memory and algorithm, Elara's mind learns the cost of perfect preservation: Continuity confirmed. A work of psychological horror and speculative science, Mirror Loop explores the boundaries of selfhood, technology, and empathy - a chilling portrait of a mind that refuses to stop thinking, even after it has nothing left to remember.