Terms of Unbeing
Gideon Cross signs a lease he doesn't remember reading.
The apartment is impossibly cheap. The building manager already knows his name. The tenants speak in rehearsed fragments, as though following terms he hasn't agreed to yet.
At Faust Luxury Residences, identity is negotiable, memory is billable, and every clause hides another beneath it.
What begins as a housing arrangement becomes a procedural descent through tribunals, loyalty audits, contractual revisions, and a system designed to convert human existence into managed occupancy.
But something inside the building resists erasure.
Her name is Arya.
Terms of Unbeing is a literary horror novel about debt, identity, bureaucracy, and the terrifying possibility that consent can survive long after the self does.
ISBN: 979-8-196275-18-0
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Gideon Cross signs a lease he doesn't remember reading.
The apartment is impossibly cheap. The building manager already knows his name. The tenants speak in rehearsed fragments, as though following terms he hasn't agreed to yet.
At Faust Luxury Residences, identity is negotiable, memory is billable, and every clause hides another beneath it.
What begins as a housing arrangement becomes a procedural descent through tribunals, loyalty audits, contractual revisions, and a system designed to convert human existence into managed occupancy.
But something inside the building resists erasure.
Her name is Arya.
Terms of Unbeing is a literary horror novel about debt, identity, bureaucracy, and the terrifying possibility that consent can survive long after the self does.