Eigen

A security guard. Four shifts. One body.

Sam works the evening shift-6 to 10 PM-in a nearly empty downtown building. A works late nights. M works the deep hours before dawn. K appears when fear takes over. They share one body, one job, one life they're barely holding together.

Through handwritten notes left at the security desk, they coordinate. They negotiate. They try to survive.

When Sam begins talking to Julian, a cleaner from the building next door, and agrees to meet him for coffee, the fragile system starts to crack. Thursday night, 2 AM-M's shift-something happens. A gap appears in the logbook. And on Friday morning, someone new wakes up in their apartment.

Eigen is a spare, haunting exploration of consciousness, identity, and what it means to exist as more than one person in a single life. Through the lens of four alters navigating twelve-hour overnight shifts, this literary novella asks: Can fragmented selves become whole? And if they do, who remains?

Perfect for readers of character-driven literary fiction exploring mental health, identity, and the nature of selfhood.