Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 198 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Nexus Retribution
Author:Katherine Carroll
He built their digital empire from scratch. He was the god in their machine, the sole architect of their success. When they refused to reward him, exploiting his dedication and casting him aside, they forgot one crucial fact: the one who builds the system also knows all its secrets. Now, with a single keystroke, Kai Sterling will unleash a data-driven reckoning that will bring the corporate titans to their knees. They should have paid him his overtime.
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.
Her Devilish Claim
Author:Blaise Thorne
My open relationship with Charlie was easy, all casual fun and no strings. But Kayla... she's different. She's a new world, a new part of my soul I never knew existed. With every stolen touch and whispered secret, she unravels me. I thought I wanted clarity, to define what we were. But when she looked at me with a devilish smile and told me I was hers, I realized I didn't want answers. I just wanted to be claimed. And I was about to find out exactly what that meant.
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.
The Serpent's Scholar
Author:Jared Dunn
He called her fat. He called her stupid. He cheated on her with his student and discarded her like an old experiment. Jake, a brilliant PhD candidate, thought he was untouchable. He didn't realize that Elara, the woman he scorned, was a master of a different kind of science: the science of revenge. She would dismantle his life piece by piece, using his own secrets as her weapons. Twenty years later, when he thought his past was buried, she's back to deliver the final, devastating lesson. His downfall wouldn't be loud or violent—it would be a quiet, academic dissection of his very existence.
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.
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 Rot That Binds Us
Author:Silas Blackwood
When Trey Blackburn returns to his decaying hometown for his monstrous father's funeral, he finds the morgue drawer empty. The body is gone. A cryptic warning from a decade-old security tape—"That's not my son! Check the attic!"—sends him searching for a mysterious stone box. He soon discovers his father didn't just die; he evolved. Trey must unravel a dark family legacy tied to the town's rotten core, where the dead don't stay buried and a terrible secret has been festering for generations, waiting for him to come home.
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.