Title: "Diver"
Length: ~5000 words
Genre: Near-future speculative fiction, with hints of sci-fi
Perspective: First-person
Rating: No sex or intense violence, but sprinkled with profanity.
Premise: Neuroscience tech has been developed to make mind infiltration possible. Government operatives, namely the FBI, use this tech to verify and/or uncover memories of crimes committed by the perpetrator. These operatives are called Divers, because the investigation process is colloquially known as "Diving into the Pool," not unlike swimming and diving in the real world, so water imagery and metaphors abound. The protagonist is a Japanese female FBI agent, who went on leave for 3 years to raise a family, but gets pulled back into the job to avenge the death of her husband, a fellow Diver. She takes on a mission to infiltrate the mind of a terrorist leader, who is responsible for the deaths of many Divers, and has apparently conditioned his mind and altered his memories to specifically counter Divers.