The Ghost Note
An interactive romantic comedy · with Nico Serrano
Everyone in the building gets the mask, and you are the only one who gets his face.
Your choices shape how Nico responds.
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- Love interest
- Nico Serrano
- Genre
- Romantic comedy
- Length
- ~45 minutes
Tropes
About The Ghost Note
The old theatre has one week before it goes dark for good. And everyone in the building knows the man in the mask.
Nico Serrano wears it for all of them. Every single person who walks through the stage door.
Everyone except you.
With you, the mask comes off. He's funny, infuriating and terrible at hiding how much he likes you.
Seven days to save the theatre. One face nobody else gets to see.
And one question nobody else would think to ask: why only you?
“The theatre has a week. I have less patience than the theatre.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
The ghost light burns alone at centre stage.
Behind it, a man in a black half-mask is sitting at the rehearsal piano eating my emergency chocolate.
For a moment I am so annoyed that I forget to be frightened.
The mask covers the right side of his face, temple to cheekbone. Matte black. Plain, not theatrical, and the plainness is somehow the worst part — an ornate Phantom thing would have told me it was a joke. This tells me it was a decision, made by somebody who did not expect to be asked about it.
He looks up from the keys.
The chocolate stops halfway to his mouth.
NICO
“I can explain the mask.”
He offers it the way other people offer you a seat. He stays sitting. The chocolate stays in his hand. Nothing about his shoulders changes at all.
I put my laptop on the nearest seat so that my hands have somewhere to be.
“Start with the chocolate.”
Something lights behind the half of his face I can see. His hair is dark and still damp at the ends from the rain, and his shirt is open at the throat under a black coat he has thrown over the piano bench like the bench is his.
NICO
“It said emergency.”
He turns the wrapper over and studies it as though it has come down on his side.
NICO
“You appear to be having one.”
I have spent fourteen hours proving exactly that.
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Questions
Is The Ghost Note free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of The Ghost Note is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in The Ghost Note?
Nico Serrano. The Ghost Note is an interactive romantic comedy where your choices shape what happens with Nico, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is The Ghost Note?
An interactive romantic comedy built on he falls first, workplace romance and scarred hero. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is The Ghost Note?
About 45 minutes of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.