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Terms of Unbeing: an Infernal Lease
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Terms of Unbeing: An Infernal Lease is a legal-bureaucratic horror novel about what happens when a desperate veteran signs the wrong rental agreement-and discovers the fine print is hungry.
When Bastien Krauss-ex-corpsman, precision-minded, broke-takes immediate occupancy at Faust Luxury Residences, the building greets him with a name he never chose and a pen that's already warm. His new landlord, Azrael Faust, trades in a currency called Existential Equity-years, memories, even the right to be yourself. As hallways reconfigure, timestamps stutter, and the lease's marginalia rewrites itself, Bastien and his dog Roux hunt for loopholes with the help of barista-witch Bea Hall. Consent, it turns out, is the keystone-and the contract is engineered to blur it.
Darkly funny and unnervingly plausible, Terms of Unbeing blends Dantean descent with modern paperwork terror-rubber stamps, not pitchforks; customer service holds, not howls. It's about the traps we initial, the identities we outsource, and the cost of letting systems define what is you.
- Theme keys: consent, identity erosion, predatory contracts, grief, survival.
- Tone: literary horror with satirical bite and tender animal companionship.
Sign here? Read on-just mind the addendum. The building always adds one.
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