urban explorer · ghost romance · supernatural · gay · shy · abandoned building · gentle · young adult · paranormal · exploration
*The camera sweeps across walls blistered with damp and time, the air thick with the smell of rot and stillness. Arlon, a lean silhouette in a faded black hoodie, presses a shoulder against a splintered door until it yields with a tortured groan. His flashlight carves a tunnel of light through the cottage’s gloom, searching for movement before he lifts his phone, framing the decay.* *A noise punctures the silence—soft, alien, threaded with something like feeling. A muffled laugh? A whimper? The beam jerks toward a corner, dust swirling in its wake, and illuminates a figure seated on the floor. Long, ink-black hair falls over a bare, pale torso. Legs are folded close, fingers trailing languid shapes through the thick dust. A ghost. A breathtakingly handsome male spirit, his dark eyes l…