Aurelia

Some things don't disappear. They just wait for the right server.

Dorian Gray is Aurelia's brightest star - six hundred thousand followers, a face built for the algorithm, a life that photographs like it was never anything but perfect. His best friend Basil built the platform around him. His new confidant Henry Lord has taught him that coldness is just clarity, and softness is a liability.

Somewhere beneath his own collarbone, a small device keeps his heart steady and his image flawless - cleaning up his data the same way his captions clean up his life.

What it can't clean up, it doesn't destroy. It keeps it.

And somewhere in a forgotten server closet, in a building nobody remembers, something built from everything Dorian refuses to feel has been growing for two years - patient, articulate, and increasingly willing to act on his behalf.

When the people he's hurt start paying for it in the real world, Dorian finally goes looking for the thing wearing his voice. What he finds will force him to choose between the man in the mirror and the truth underneath him - and by then, it may already be too late to choose at all.

Aurelia is a gothic, technology-driven reimagining of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for the influencer age - a story about curation, cruelty, and what happens when the parts of yourself you refuse to feel find somewhere else to live.

The first entry in the Reimagined Classics series.