Terms Of Unbeing

Some leases cost money.Others cost everything.When former Navy corpsman Gideon Cross discovers an impossibly luxurious apartment renting for less than half the market rate, he assumes it's a scam.He should have walked away.Faust Luxury Residences accepts tenants other buildings reject: the indebted, the grieving, the guilty, and the broken. Rent is cheap. The paperwork is endless. Every clause seems absurd until it begins rewriting itself.Each day at 6:17 PM, the building collects another payment-not from Gideon's bank account, but from the parts of himself that make him who he is. His memories begin to disappear. - His past rewrites itself. Even his loyal dog, Arya, begins looking at him as though she no longer recognizes the man she chose Surrounded by impossible neighbors, infernal bureaucracy, hidden tribunals, and a landlord who seems to own every building that has ever existed-or ever will-Gideon discovers that escaping Hell isn't about surviving monsters. It's about remembering yourself before there's nothing left worth saving. - Terms of Unbeing is a literary horror novel that blends existential dread, supernatural horror, dark fantasy, and razor-sharp satire into a haunting story about memory, identity, grief, and the contracts we sign long before we understand what they'll cost.