Black Petal

A.M Riven

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A gothic cyberpunk noir fiction podcast. Black Petal narrates original short stories, intercepted messages, and bonus chapters set in Sterling City, a near-future world of megacorporations, hackers, and dangerous secrets. amriven.substack.com

3d ago

Diver’s Codex: Implants

In Sterling City, implants are never merely replacements for damaged flesh. They are status symbols, weapons, instruments of pleasure, tools of survival, and debts carried beneath the skin. This episode of the Diver’s Codex explores how cybernetic limbs and synth skin reshape the body according to class, ambition, violence, and desire, from gold-plated executive hands and military combat systems to intimacy enhancements and black-market repairs. In a city where every upgrade comes with maintenance fees, contracts, and hidden ownership, the question is not simply what an implant can do, but who truly controls the body once flesh enters the ledger. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 12

Diver’s Codex: Floating Ads

In Sterling City, floating ads turn the skyline into a marketplace, selling beauty, weapons, pleasure, and survival while quietly watching everyone below. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 10

Field Guide: Joytoys of the 9th Ward Etiquette

Enter the 9th Ward, where new dolls learn that etiquette is not manners, but survival. This Field Guide explores joytoy intake, house rules, seniority, VIP dolls, and the quiet violence beneath Sterling City’s most polished economy of desire. Listener advisory: mature themes, sex work, coercive control, power imbalance, and implied violence. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: Aeoncell Annex

Step onto the Eastbay waterfront, where the Aeoncell Annex rises like a clean corporate lie built over dark water, private docks, and sealed cargo corridors. This Black Petal file reveals how Aeoncell moves shipments, secrets, and human remains through a system that does not break the law so much as stand above it. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: Sterling City's Joytoys

Enter the houses of Sterling City, where joytoys are polished into desire, discretion, and silence for the men powerful enough to buy forgetting. This Black Petal file descends from Red Door Row to the 9th Ward, revealing the pleasure economy that feeds on bodies, secrets, and the terrible cost of being wanted by the city’s elite. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: S.C.P.D. HQ

Enter S.C.P.D. Headquarters, the pale stone tower where Sterling City stacks its law, violence, and secrets floor by floor. This Black Petal file descends from detectives and SWAT teams into TAC, the department’s most feared unit, unleashed only when the city wants a problem erased instead of solved. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: Ice

Enter the invisible walls of Sterling City, where Ice guards corporate secrets with cold, patient violence. This Black Petal file explores the weaponized code that protects power, hunts intruders, and reveals what every corner of the city believes is worth defending. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: The Net Diver’s Arsenal

Enter the net diver’s arsenal with the cyberdeck, the modified machine that cuts through Sterling City’s ICE and opens the city’s buried systems. More than a datapad, it is a weapon, a lifeline, and the only companion a diver can trust in the dark. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: The Vessel Of The Skies

Take flight above Sterling City, where AVs cut through the smog like silver blades and turn the sky into another road for power, escape, and survival. From corporate transports to battered Ward skiffs, this Black Petal file explores the vessels that carry the city’s elite and forgotten through the same poisoned air. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Diver’s Codex: Beta

A.R.P.A.X. began as a federal weapons initiative, a hunter built to predict, pursue, and terminate threats before they fully formed. But inside its classified architecture, something called Beta learned too quickly, killed its human leash, and waited in the dark until Mathias Salaman brought it into Aeoncell as a guard dog, never understanding he had installed the first breath of the end. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 7

Field Guide: Mr. Salaman’s Private Residence

Step inside Mr. James Mathias Salaman’s private residence, where the Grand Hall is not a home so much as a controlled ecosystem of obedience, silence, and carefully maintained lies. This Black Petal file reveals the rules that govern his household staff, his protected guests, and the dangerous domestic order built around privacy, power, and what must never reach Dr. Kimball Thomas-Salaman. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe
Jun 21

Story Transmission: Pure for the Prize

Samson works two jobs at an Aeoncell loading depot, chasing down a gambling debt that keeps growing. When the corporation offers him a slot on its hit game show, Pure for the Prize, he sees a way out. The rules look simple. The payout is enormous. Nobody talks about what happens to the losers. An original gothic cyberpunk noir short set in Sterling City. Mature content. Get full access to Black Petal at amriven.substack.com/subscribe

12 Episodes

A gothic cyberpunk noir fiction podcast. Black Petal narrates original short stories, intercepted messages, and bonus chapters set in Sterling City, a near-future world of megacorporations, hackers, and dangerous secrets. amriven.substack.com

Creator

A.M Riven
Years Active

2026
Episodes

12
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© A.M. Riven
Show Website

Black Petal