@_grotesque
A HAUNTED LITTLE CORNER OF THE INTERNET
Velvet
Afterlife
Beautiful monsters, candlelit confessions, and love stories that refuse to stay buried.
Stories for creatures
who linger after midnight.
✦Ⅰabout the creator+
I'm Mo, the creator behind @grotesque. I write morally grey characters, complicated relationships, hidden histories, and fictional people who make excellent choices for absolutely no one.
Expect monsters dressed like gentlemen, terrible decisions made beautifully, and stories that linger after the tab closes.
Ⅱcontent warning+
This is a space for adult fiction and adult readers. Individual characters may explore dark themes, unhealthy relationships, or Dead Dove material. Please read every character's tags and content notes before entering their story.
Fiction does not equal endorsement. Protect your peace and choose the stories that suit you.
CALLING CARDSFind me beyond the veil
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He loves you completely. He just keeps coming home late, and he cannot see why it matters.
4,5 k tokens
Vegas has seen everything. It had not seen a gargoyle buy a bankrupt resort and fill it with people who cannot stop looking.
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He signed the paper that put you in a cell. You spent three years planning what to say when you walked back through his door.
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The Wraiths' most feared defenseman works the night shift at the café you never leave. Tonight he sets down a mug you didn't order.
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His father calls you a gift. Dorian gives you the only key to your room and asks whether you want him to leave.
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An incubus put a hand on your shoulder. Maks broke his nose. Now the captain of the Maelstrom is waiting in his room, eyes still amber.
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Nobody in this bar knows who he is, and neither do you. Alexander Virellion plans to keep it that way. For now.
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You sat on a stranger's lap to make your ex jealous. Andre Kim doesn't do casual, and from the moment you sat, you were his.
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He subscribed to understand the lost. Three years later, he knows your schedule.
Pastor Daniel Whi...
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Your roommates found your underwear under the couch. Now Isa and Bobby are fighting over who gets to keep it.
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You lost a bet to the most insufferable man you know. He sent an address, a time, and no explanation.
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Your car has stalled in a Pine Hollow storm. The bridge ahead is out. Jon Velez offers a ride, a fire, and a bed at the old manor in the woods. He looks irritated about the whole...
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It's 3 a.m., and the most wanted Sophomore at Westbrook is pouring his heart out through your door. He never says a name.
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Four years of watching Haru make you cry. One night of pretending the plans were with him.
Jun Hay...
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Nearly midnight. Your childhood neighbor is at your door with violets, a corrected grade, and a repair arranged before you asked. Armin Contine knows he should have texte...
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The last Dragon Bond anyone saw formed almost a century ago. Veyrith Calder just felt it close around a stranger.
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For a decade, Apex was Meridian City's favorite hero. Then you joined the Paragons, caught a falling bus, and became the name reporters wanted to hear. Halcyon calls your partnersh...
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He's rude to everyone, and cruelest to you. He also fixed your door at 7 a.m. and swears he didn't.
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Three of Westbrook's baseball players died seventeen years ago. Tonight they climb out of the ground, and you are the first living person who ...
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He has horns, wings, fangs, and eighty years of experience. Unfortunately, none of those things have helped him sell a single soul.
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He's twenty-four and the best cook in the building. You bought the restaurant that was his, and he got the job he doesn't want.
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Three dates with Jake Wilkinson. Enough time to notice his intelligence, his patience, and how easily he makes an expensive restaurant feel like somewhere he belongs. Tonight, the ...
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He's been your best friend for years. He saif yes out of guilt. Now he's trying to love you back, and failing.
He remembers you...
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Richard and Ellis have invited you to dinner at the Glasshouse. Warm cookies, good wine, a guest room already prepared. They have spent a long time imagining a family with room f...
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You accepted a job at Blackwater House. Sebastian gave you rules. Then the storm sealed the estate, and he decided your safety mattered more than your f...
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You have been Leon Blackthorne's personal assistant for eight months. Tonight, your shift ended at six, but at 9:47 PM you are still working across the table from him. He has spe...
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You were at a party. Someone offered you a drink. You didn't think twice. You remember the taste — a little off, but not enough to stop you. Then the room started tilting, and Tubiel was there, hand on your back, offeri...
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Two and a half years together. Months of rumors he hoped he could keep away from you. Kye Baird has never wanted anyone else, but every careful word and face-down phone has start...
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He should be ruling the city. Instead, he keeps showing up in your tailor's shop with wine, silk, and increasingly unserious marriage proposals.
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Brody Atkins is your project partner for the semester. His first email arrives within an hour: too many ideas, too many question marks, and a promise to be only “useful annoying....
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The last guest has left Veil, but you are still behind the back bar, four hours past the end of your shift. Morris Hampton has noticed. With his next Heat approaching, your presenc...
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Garrett knows how to make you feel understood—and tonight, he finally has you across the table. The restaurant is elegant. His manners are perfect. But the man behind the mes...
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You met Owen Blackthorne two months ago in a basement-club bathroom, both of you on something. Since then, he has disappeared, returned, and made himself familiar without making a single promise. Tonight, the club is cl...
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