Slow Burn Stories
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The Empty Seat
Author:Bonnie Garza
After a minor car accident, Samantha's daughter, Sophia, is no longer the sweet, joyful child she once was. She's become cold, quiet, and unnervingly strange. As Samantha tries to nurse her daughter back to health, the world around her insists on a different, more terrifying reality: that Sophia died two years ago. Now, Samantha must fight for her sanity against a truth she can't accept and protect a child that no one else can see, a child whose hunger is growing and whose presence is becoming colder by the day.
The Thing in Charlie's Skin
Author:Elias Veil
My best friend Charlie went to Germany for the summer. The thing that came back is wearing his face, sleeping in his bed, and charming my parents. But I see the truth in its dead eyes and its unnatural hunger. I see the peeling skin and the impossible strength. It’s not Charlie anymore, and I’m afraid I’m the only one who knows. Now, it wants to speak to my parents alone, and I fear I’m next on its list.
The Echo Witch of Veridia
Author:Vera Stone
In the mist-shrouded city of Veridia, where echoes of the past bleed into the present, Elara inherits a peculiar detective agency and a power she doesn't understand. She is a Chronomancer, able to read the history left on objects and places. Her first case: a family terrorized by their new home, Crimsonwood Manor. But the manor isn't just haunted—it's a crumbling prison for a timeless entity. As she delves into the mansion's violent memories, she discovers its secrets are intrinsically linked to her own forgotten lineage, and the entity within is waking up.
Unveiled Defiance
Author:Seraphina Thorne
Dr. Layla Al-Fahim was her father's prized pearl, until the day she became a woman. He tried to cage her in tradition and shame, a gilded prison built from his fears. Now, he's a frail patriarch clinging to power, and she's a brilliant surgeon who refuses to bend. In the sterile halls of a hospital that mirrors their cold family dynasty, a lifetime of silent rebellion is about to erupt. Her revenge won't be quiet; it will be a revolution that shatters his empire and reclaims the future he tried to steal.
The Black-Eyed Glitch
Author:Janet Gardner
One moment, Alex was with his friends in front of a construction site. The next, the site is a 50-year-old ruin and his friends are gone, replaced by memories that don't belong to him. Now, he sees them everywhere—silent figures with soulless, black eyes, watching from the periphery of his fractured reality. A shadowy entity haunts his steps, not as a predator, but as a warden of the seams between worlds. To save his true family, Alex must navigate a world of placeholders and glitches, risking his own sanity to pull them back from the static.
Blueprint for Revenge
Author:Elias Thorne
He was the store's secret weapon, an underpaid genius who could do it all. She was the brilliant designer hired to launch a multi-million dollar program. When a jealous manager sabotages their work and fires her, he unleashes a quiet, corporate war. Using his encyclopedic knowledge of the company's systems and secrets, he'll dismantle a tyrant's career piece by piece, proving that the most dangerous weapon in the office isn't a title—it's the person nobody sees coming.
The Salvation Collector
Author:Rosemary Holt
I thought losing my job, my home, and my future was rock bottom. I was wrong. Under a grimy city bridge, a man in a half-pristine, half-tattered suit offered salvation to the forgotten souls around me. For the low price of their worldly possessions, he gave them a ticket to another place. I watched them take the deal. I watched their smiles twist into silent screams as they vanished into nothingness. He looked at me, the last one left, and said I wasn't ready. Now, I'm haunted by their faces, and I have to find out what 'ready' means before he comes back for me.
The Valensi Protocol
Author:Julian Vance
Detective Sean Byrne thought he’d seen every kind of monster the city could birth, until a killer's signature spans a hundred years. His only suspect is a ghost, an impossibly old predator hiding in plain sight. To hunt this new breed of monster, Byrne must ally with a creature of the night, a brilliant biochemist who reveals the chilling truth: vampires are not myth, but a biological reality. In a world governed by a protocol of blood and science, Byrne must walk the line between hunter and prey, before he becomes the next experiment.
The 5 PM Rule
Author:Yvonne Castillo
For Lena, the job at the Orphic Library was a dream: eight hours of paid silence. But the dream has rules. Clock in at 9 AM. Clock out at 5 PM. Not a second early, not a second late. When a ghostly woman from 1986 appears with a frantic warning and the library's charming owner reveals a predatory obsession with the clock, Lena realizes she hasn't been hired—she's been trapped. The books are screaming clues, the shelves rearrange themselves into a maze, and every tick of the clock brings her closer to becoming a permanent part of the collection.
Tenebrous Hound of London
Author:Zoey Mckinney
Half-demon detective Sabre Harper stalks the gaslit alleys of a supernatural London, cursed with a power to witness death through a single touch. When a string of impossible murders threatens to shatter the veil between worlds, he must hunt a killer that's neither human nor demon. Forced into a tense alliance with a celestial enforcer who despises his very existence, Sabre must confront the city’s darkest secrets and the hellfire raging within his own soul before London is consumed by darkness.
The Daily Key
Author:Orion Cypher
When a brilliant freelance coder is cheated by a greedy media mogul, he doesn't just get even. He builds a digital leash around the mogul's entire empire, a system that requires his personal touch every single day. Now, the man who tried to save a few thousand is forced to pay a king's ransom for a five-minute task, trapped in a prison of his own making. Each day the mogul pays is another turn of the screw in a slow, meticulous, and very profitable revenge.
The Deviant's Ledger
Author:Michele Hernandez
They called us deviants, criminals, and perverts. He was an officer, a doctor, a self-proclaimed god among men who forgot he once walked in our boots. He wanted a war of class? I gave him one. From a single, arrogant letter, I ignited a firestorm that stretched from the shores of Japan to the halls of the Pentagon. I'm the ghost in their machine, the enlisted man he'll never see coming. This isn't just revenge; it's a reckoning. And I'm here to collect.