These organic smart houses are good at predicting the space you'll need over the course of your inhabitance - adding a room for a young family, subtracting the unwanted space for empty-nesters and widowed spouses without any cost to the owners.
It was genius in theory but the reality left heartbroken people with blank walls where treasured memories once were and no way to reinstate whatever the house reabsorbed once it was deemed unnecessary. It also meant that when something went very wrong, the house was capable of covering its own crimes by absorbing any unfortunate bodies.
It also meant that sometimes the houses would grow new rooms with no reason or rhyme or intent for them to be inhabited. It was like the house wanted a space for itself and made sure that it was utterly impossible for anything else to exist within that space.
It's been seven months since the outline of the new room appeared as the house decided to grow. As far as we knew there weren't any new occupants on their way, no explanation other than the house had decided that it was time to develop another room.
When it had developed fully at ten months of shifting and rearranging that we the occupants couldn't fully see (or comprehend, no matter how colourful the diagrams online seemed), the first thing we noticed was the faint odour of fresh meat lingering around the doorframe.
A quick glance inside revealed that the walls were red, wet and pulsing to the heartbeat of a creature exactly two stories high and 1,033 square feet in total. Something blood-like rushed through the walls with every beat, warming the newborn room and making the air inside feel unbearably stifling.
We decided to place a bookcase in front of it after it opened by itself and the floor began to tilt towards a much darker, much more visceral room than we last saw. Now the floor still tilts whenever we walk past and we can hear the door open as the house tries to somewhat passively consume us but we have no plans to leave.
The housing market is dire enough, we'll work around this just fine.
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