Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 364 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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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.
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.