Poacher

Poacher is a dark, character-driven speculative thriller that explores justice, trauma, and accountability in a world where cruelty often goes unseen.The story follows a man known only as Poacher, a former soldier whose brain has been irrevocably altered by experimental neuro-technology via an interspecies brain-to-brain interface. The result is an ability he never asked for and cannot turn off: when he comes into physical contact with abused animals, he experiences their trauma as if it were his own. Fear, pain, and terror flood his nervous system with devastating clarity.Unable to escape what he now knows-and what he feels-Poacher becomes something both necessary and unsettling: a reckoning. He intervenes where systems fail, confronting abusers who rely on anonymity, indifference, and silence to protect them. His actions blur the line between justice and vigilantism, raising uncomfortable questions about responsibility in a world that routinely looks away.Grounded in real neuroscience and ethical debate, Poacher is not a story about revenge, but about consequence-what happens when empathy becomes unavoidable, and whether society is prepared for the truths it reveals.