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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The Hallway at 3:12
Author:Elias Thorne
At 3:12 a.m., my apartment building changes. The hallway stretches into an impossible, endless corridor—a place that shouldn't exist, patrolled by a faceless thing that glides through the silence. I escaped once, but now, a strange door has appeared outside my own. And every single night, it inches one step closer.
The Zero-Dollar Dragon
Author:Terry Ward
Alex was the best manager at CyberCorp, a master of sales and efficiency. But when a jealous rival accused him of grand theft, he was forced to prove his innocence in a corporate witch hunt. Vindicated but denied justice, he unleashed a single, devastating act of malicious compliance that targeted the one man who wronged him, threatening to bring a corrupt system to its knees. They thought he was a pawn in their game; they were about to find out he was the final boss.
The Town That Eats Memories
Author:Silas Croft
For David, it was a simple family history project. He found a map to Croft Pines, a town that doesn't exist. He and his girlfriend went looking for an abandoned ghost town. But the town wasn't empty. It was waiting. An ancient hunger slumbers beneath the soil, and they woke it up. Now, it's not just the town that's disappearing—it's David's entire world. Reality is unraveling, one memory at a time, and the hunger that took his girlfriend is now following him home.
The 4 PM Gambit
Author:Chris Steward
Elara was just a quiet coder trying to beat rush hour traffic. But when her petty colleagues conspire to chain her to her desk, they don't realize they've pushed a master strategist too far. Armed with a secret piece of information, she'll turn their own jealousy into a weapon, orchestrating a malicious compliance so perfect it will dismantle their careers, their comfort, and their smug smiles. They wanted her to be a team player; they're about to learn she plays to win.
Sovereign's Shadow
Author:Alberto West
By day, Halie House serves coffee. By night, she hunts dragons. As the Sovereign's most lethal assassin, her life is a blade's edge of secrecy and death. But when a mission goes catastrophically wrong, she's benched and forced to work with Xavier Wolf—the man who shattered her heart and her career. Now, under the guise of a fake romance, they must infiltrate the glittering, dangerous world of dragon high society. As they navigate a web of ancient conspiracies and undeniable passion, Halie discovers the deadliest monster might not be the one she's hunting, but the lies she's been told by the very people she serves.
The Karma Engine
Author:Christina Robertson
After a brutal week of rejections, all struggling artist Ellie wanted was the quiet comfort of a bookstore. Instead, she found her car blocked by an arrogant billionaire in a supercar. But when a mysterious System offers her points for petty revenge, she takes the deal. What starts as a simple parking dispute ignites an obsession in the city's most powerful man. He's determined to find the girl who humiliated him, but discovers she's more than a match. It's a war of wits, wills, and a whole lot of karma.
The Yellow King's Jest
Author:Marie Austin
Four broke students take a high-paying gig to film themselves telling strange jokes in an abandoned town. But the jokes aren't funny—they're keys. Each punchline unlocks a new layer of madness, revealing a stage where reality itself is the gag. When one of them becomes the final punchline and vanishes into an impossible house, the survivors learn their mysterious employer wasn't filming a movie. She was casting a cosmic horror, and the show is far from over.
The Fear Eater's System
Author:Marvin Jensen
An ordinary college student, Kael, is granted a mystical System that turns fear into power when Halley's Comet awakens his latent abilities. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden magical academy, he must survive a brutal curriculum where nightmares are weapons and failure means death. His unique fear of failure becomes his greatest asset, but also his most dangerous vulnerability. Watched by a beautiful, ruthless instructor, Kael must climb the ranks and unravel the academy's dark secrets before the cosmic horrors they're training to fight consume them all.
The Echo-Seer's Gambit
Author:Lydia Thorne
In the grimy Whispering Market, Elara sells fleeting echoes of the past for a few copper coins, her psychic gift a curse that keeps her in poverty. But when the enigmatic Lord Vance, a man forged from shadows and steel, drags her into the glittering, treacherous world of the nobility to solve his brother's murder, her world shatters. He sees her as a tool, she sees him as a cage. But the truth they seek is a conspiracy that could burn their city to ashes, and the dangerous echoes connecting them could be their salvation… or their doom.
Echoes in Ochre
Author:Rhys Corvan
Elara, a freelance graphic designer, finds her life unraveling when mysterious paintings begin arriving at her doorstep. Each canvas captures a moment from her life with impossible detail—sometimes, moments that haven't even happened yet. When a chilling analysis reveals the ancient paint is mixed with human blood, she realizes she's not just being stalked by a person. She's being watched by something that existed before history, an artist whose medium is reality itself, and whose final masterpiece might be her.
The Crape Myrtle War
Author:Briar Sterling
When a monstrous new neighbor shatters the peace of her idyllic suburban life, landscape architect Elara finds her polite requests met with threats and aggression. Pushed to the brink by incessant barking and personal attacks, she transforms her greatest passion—her garden—into an instrument of meticulous, soul-crushing revenge. Using her knowledge of botany, bylaws, and psychological warfare, she wages a silent war, proving that the quietest neighbor can be the most dangerous enemy.
The Bloomwood Legacy
Author:Vera Grimwood
Broke and desperate, Elara Vance inherits her estranged family's remote farm—a verdant, self-sustaining paradise. But this Eden has a will of its own. The unnervingly intelligent animals are its wardens, the lush vegetation its veins, and the soil itself breathes with a primal, ancient hunger. Elara is not the owner; she is the next offering. The farm provides, but it also demands. As she uncovers the terrifying secrets of the Bloomwood Legacy, she realizes escape is not an option. The land has chosen her, and it will not be denied.