The Building — Volume I. THE BUILDING, #1

Every night at 23:12, the neighbor upstairs drags a chair. Nine months of it. Hugo has learned not to hear it. One night, it stops. He goes up. The apartment is empty - no furniture, no trace, no one. Just a chair in the center of the room, facing the wall. When he comes back down, the sound returns. What Hugo doesn't know is that he isn't investigating an anomaly. He's being assessed. The building doesn't evict its tenants.
It replaces them. With versions that fit better. A psychological literary thriller about surveillance, identity and invisible systems hidden inside ordinary places. How long has it been since you heard the chair?The first ten chapters of THE BUILDING. Some buildings notice when you start asking questions.