Forced Proximity Stories
Explore our collection of 222 amazing stories tagged with forced proximity. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Crimson Cipher of Everglow
Author:R.J. Thorne
In the neon-drenched streets of Everglow, where elves scheme in crystalline towers and trolls rule the undercity, half-troll Detective Jade Hawkins is an outcast with a badge. She didn't ask to be a hero, but when a high-ranking official is murdered by impossible magic, leaving behind a cryptic cosmic message, Jade is the only one with the unique senses to decipher it. Now, hunted by a shadowy cult and framed for a crime she's trying to solve, she and her all-too-human partner must unravel a conspiracy that threatens to tear their magically-charged city apart at the seams.
Artisanal Lust
Author:Lynn Garrett
Chloe is a bartender who slings beers and shots. Julian is a mixologist who crafts cocktails with scientific precision. Forced together in a high-stakes competition, their rivalry is as bitter as his artisanal bitters. But when the night ends, insults turn into desperate, angry passion on top of a bar. Now, a shocking business proposal forces them to collaborate, turning their one-night explosion into a slow burn of clashing wills and undeniable lust. Can they build a future together, or will they burn each other down first?
The Chronomancer's Curse
Author:Alex Daniels
In a city hiding magic in plain sight, Alistair is the reclusive keeper of a peculiar antique shop. His only companions are three powerful Fae—Ignis, Terra, and Umbra—imprisoned within a grand clock that governs the city's temporal stability. He desires only quiet solitude, but when a cursed artifact stops the clock for the first time in a century, Alistair is dragged from his exile. Now, he must confront the shadows of his past and wield the very power he swore to abandon, or watch his city, his prison, and the Fae he protects unravel into chaos.
Warden of the Sanguine City
Author:Silas Thorne
In a city powered by blood and secrets, Aether-Fixer Deon hunts for the disappeared. His search leads him to the Warden, a monstrous enforcer bound by magic and duty. But the beast in chains is not the enemy—he's a prisoner of the same dark system. To save the city's stolen souls, Deon must forge an impossible alliance with the monster he was meant to destroy, risking a bond that could either sever the Warden's chains or shackle them both to an even darker fate.
Bitter & Spice
Author:Ember Thorne
I pour beer and shots. He crafts artisanal cocktails with unicorn tears. We were rivals in a high-stakes competition, a clash of cheap whiskey and expensive bitters. The only thing stronger than our hatred was the forbidden lust simmering beneath every insult. We both lost the trophy that night, but when the room emptied, leaving us alone in the wreckage of our ambitions, we found a different prize. On a bar top sticky with spilled liquor and shattered pride, we didn't just break the rules—we rewrote them, one searing touch at a time.
The Echo in the Lake
Author:Bonnie Riley
To escape his suffocating city life, Liam returns to the remote lake where he spent his happiest childhood days. But the nostalgia is shattered by a chilling presence in the woods—a figure that watches him from the trees. This is no random stalker. It knows his name, it wears his face, and it's a terrifying echo of a nightmare that haunted his father years ago. The lake doesn't just hold memories; it holds a horrifying reflection, and it refuses to let him go.
Chasm Runner: The Aetheric Interface
Author:Mattie Prescott
In the neon-drenched underbelly of Veridia City, a sarcastic master thief named Haven lives by one rule: trust no one. But when a heist goes wrong and she witnesses a grotesque, reality-glitching demon attack, her world shatters. She discovers she possesses a unique 'Aetheric Interface'—the power to see and manipulate the code of magic itself. This ability throws her into the path of Asterias, a cold and dangerously handsome agent from the secret order that polices these demonic incursions. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they must unravel a conspiracy tied to her father's mysterious death, a conspiracy that will drag them through high-tech heists and demonic cults, blurring the line between justice and revenge.
The Viper's Claim
Author:Aria Thorne
Art student Nicole thought her life was ordinary until she was abducted and thrust into a world of opulent darkness. Now, she is the captive prize of Eva, a beautiful and ruthless syndicate queen, and Bryce, her formidable enforcer. Forced into a test of submission and pleasure beyond her wildest imaginings, Nicole discovers a side of herself that craves their control. But in this gilded cage, is her surrender a path to ecstasy or a trap with no escape? She must navigate the desires of her captors while fighting for her own soul, caught between two powerful figures who intend to claim her, body and mind.
Whispers on Paradise Key
Author:Jeff Austin
To recover from a mysterious illness, an overworked assistant is sent to her billionaire boss's private island. But the tropical paradise holds a dark secret: strange noises from a non-existent attic, a reclusive novelist, and the handsome, guarded pilot who warns her that not everything is as it seems. Trapped between her powerful boss and the pilot who makes her feel alive, she must uncover the island's ghostly secret before a looming hurricane reveals a truth more terrifying than any spirit.
The Thaumaturge's Gambit
Author:Elias Thorne
A cynical 21st-century detective is murdered, only to awaken in the body of a nobleman investigator in an alternate Victorian-era world. In this Anglo-French Empire, magic is a rigid science controlled by the Church, and his new partner is a powerful, by-the-book sorcerer. Tasked with solving impossible locked-room murders, he must use his modern forensic knowledge to reinterpret the very laws of thaumaturgy. As he untangles conspiracies that threaten to drag the empire into war, he finds himself in a deadly game of wits against a beautiful, ruthless sorceress from a rival empire, where one wrong move could shatter both his cover and his new reality.
The Architect of Echoes
Author:James Daniels
I'm a programmer, a man of logic. I built an app to fake ghosts, a masterpiece of digital deception. My mistake wasn't in the code; it was in my arrogance. I thought I was simulating whispers in the static, but I was building a bridge. I created a recursive loop that amplified a signal from beyond, giving it form, a voice, and a hunger. It took my best friend. Now, it wears his memories and whispers my name in the dark. I built its cage, and now I'm trapped inside with it.
The Third-Floor Tenant
Author:Alice Carpenter
When Leo signs the lease for a suspiciously cheap apartment, the landlord’s only rule is to ignore the "renovations" on the third floor. But the dragging footsteps and chilling breaths outside his door are impossible to ignore. Soon, he discovers he hasn’t just moved into a new home—he’s been chosen by its oldest resident. An entity that doesn't just want to haunt him, it wants to replace him. Now, Leo must uncover the building's dark history before he becomes the next soul to be permanently renovated.