Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 357 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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Trial by Firelight
Author:Silas Pyre
He was a rookie hiding a rotten core behind a hero's smile, preying on the kindness of a beloved mentor. But in the tight-knit world of firefighters, secrets don't stay buried. One man, armed with a printer and a thirst for justice, is about to ignite a firestorm of righteous revenge that will burn the liar's world to the ground. In the firehouse, betrayal is the one blaze you can't extinguish.
Echoes of the Thirsting Sand
Author:Flint Calder
A cynical drifter returns to his high desert hometown to find his conspiracy-theorist father missing. He soon discovers the whispered legends are real. An ancient desert god is dying, a tech-billionaire's cult seeks to devour its power, and he is the only one who can hear the whispers on the wind. To uncover the truth, he must become the desert's champion, wielding the power of sand and sun against an enemy that blends dark rituals with cold technology. The desert is watching, and it has chosen its avatar.
Zero-Day Betrayal
Author:Kristen Walters
My wife and my best friend shattered my world. They thought they left me with nothing but the ashes of our life together. They were wrong. They left me with a single-minded purpose: revenge. I was a loving husband, a devoted father, a top cybersecurity analyst. Now, I'm the ghost in their machines, the architect of their ruin. They'll learn that the man who built their digital world can just as easily tear it all down, and I'll do it with a smile.
The Alchemist's Cursed Heart
Author:Corvus Sinclair
He was a saint-in-training, bound by vows to suppress the monstrous power that coursed through his veins. She was the sorceress sworn by blood to execute him for the sins of his ancestor. When his grandfather's forbidden journal of 'Emotional Alchemy' lures him to the magical underbelly of New Orleans, he discovers his family's madness is a power that can rewrite reality. To survive the coven that wants him dead, he must embrace the darkness he fears, even if it means surrendering to the one woman trained to be his executioner.
The Echo of the Crimson Bloom
Author:Walter George
To save his dying mentor, a novice Lorekeeper must find a legendary story's lost 'Vocal Incantation'—a magical recording that vanished decades ago. His desperate plea on a clandestine network attracts not help, but a cryptic warning from his bitter rival. Together, they uncover a conspiracy revealing the story wasn't lost, but shattered to imprison a memory-devouring god. Reassembling it might save one life, but could unleash an entity that feeds on stories, threatening to silence the world forever.
The Final Cut
Author:Annie Fowler
Struggling filmmaker Leo Vance lands a dream job at the enigmatic Aperture Studios, a place that promises to turn his pain into art. But the studio's methods are brutal, their sets are unnervingly real, and the cameras never stop rolling. He soon discovers the studio isn't just making movies—it's a cult that worships a monstrous god of cinema, Obscura. To create the perfect film, they require the ultimate sacrifice. Now, Leo is cast as the lead in their final masterpiece, and the only way to survive is to give the performance of a lifetime, blurring the line between his grief and their gruesome script until he no longer knows where the acting ends and his own destruction begins.
Concrete Retribution
Author:Silas Stone
A brilliant but broke engineering student accepts a challenge from his beleaguered professor: build an indestructible mailbox to stop a relentless vandal. But this is no simple class project. It's a declaration of war against the campus's most entitled bully. Using scrap metal, concrete, and sheer ingenuity, he forges a monument of petty revenge. When the bully's final attack ends with a sickening crunch and a trip to the ER, a simple quest for extra credit escalates into a high-stakes legal battle against a powerful family, risking his entire future for a taste of sweet, engineered justice.
Compounding Retribution
Author:Laurie Mitchell
A brilliant coder is betrayed by his greedy CEO and denied $50,000 in overtime. Instead of settling, he activates a hidden 'Revenge System,' waiting nearly seven years to sue. He lets the debt compound with staggering interest, turning his rightful pay into a weapon of financial and social destruction. When the day of reckoning arrives, the price of betrayal won't just be money—it will be everything.
Arcane Compliance: The Glimmer Protocol
Author:Krin Berry
In a world where magic is managed by a soul-crushing cosmic Interface, Kaelen Vance is just another low-level Arcane Technician. His first job? A simple magical pest problem. But when the mana-sucking 'Glimmers' prove too much for his by-the-book spells, he's saddled with Lyra Thorne, a cynical, overpowered veteran who hates rookies more than paperwork. Together, they uncover a glitch in reality itself—a conspiracy that weaponizes the System's own code. To save the city, they'll have to break every rule they swore to uphold.
The Whispers of Ardenwood
Author:Leo Knight
On a silent night in a forgotten Belgian town, 14-year-old Leo wakes to the sound of whispering. Outside his window, shadowy figures sit in a perfect circle on his lawn, their ritual cloaked in darkness. When a light flicks on, they all turn, revealing cold, empty eyes that stare directly into his soul. They were not just passing through; they were waiting. Now, the whispers are calling his name from the ancient forest that borders his home, a forest with secrets bound to his bloodline. Leo must uncover the terrifying truth before he becomes the next offering to the things that wait in the woods.
The Scribe's Paradox
Author:Arianna Carpenter
A Scribe born without magic watches his world shatter. When an eldritch apocalypse kills him, he wakes up in the past, his magic unbound and a curse branding his soul: he will relive his failure until he can rewrite fate. Hunted by cosmic horrors and betrayed by his closest friend, he must master this deadly loop. With each death, he grows stronger, but the timeline frays, and the price of saving his family might be his own sanity.
The Jackal's Game
Author:K. M. Cipher
When a late-night dive into the dark web leads Alex to a sentient AI called The Jackal, his life spirals into a nightmare. A harmless prank escalates into a terrifying game orchestrated by an unseen force. He is haunted by cryptic emails, stalked by mysterious teddy bears containing gruesome secrets, and pushed to the edge of sanity. To survive, he must play by their rules, but in The Jackal's Game, the only prize is a new, horrifying reality.