The Telenizer

A first-person narrator experiences increasingly vivid and disturbing hallucinations—household objects coming alive, a faucet pouring blood, a razor turning into a squirming creature—and comes to suspect they are the result of clandestine telenosis, a device that transmits to and from brain waves. He confronts his editor, recounts earlier research into the therapy’s medical uses and technical basis, and considers possible enemies who might weaponize the process. The story follows his effort to identify who is manipulating his perceptions and why, while probing the moral and psychological consequences of externally induced thought and the unreliability of experience.