In the story "Touch Sensitive", people from the future wearing glass helmets peer down on a couple who reside on the building's second floor. She still thinks of her first boyfriend, who left her after an abortion, and feels frustrated with her husband. Later in life as a mother, she puts on weight and feels her creativity stifled by domesticity. The woman sees herself as a failed artist, and the work follows her in the Chicago brownstone apartment building in her twenties.
She comes to inhabit the third floor of a three-story apartment building, with a couple who constantly argue on the second floor and the elderly landlady on the first. The protagonist of Building Stories is an unnamed woman with brown hair who suffered the loss of the lower half of her left leg in a childhood boating accident.
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