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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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.
The Alchemist of Flesh
Author:Silas Marrow
My memory is a blank slate, my only guide the echoing screams in the darkness below. I descend into a labyrinth of my own making, a laboratory of horrors where stitched-together flesh whispers my name. A grotesque parody of my mother hunts me, cooing with her voice while brandishing needle-sharp claws. Every step deeper into this hell reveals a truth more terrifying than any monster: I am not the victim. I am the architect of this suffering, the master of these abominations. Now, I must unravel the bloody tapestry of my past before my own creations tear me apart.
Dream Weaver of Elkwood Asylum
Author:Lesa Carter
Elara Vance, an indie actress, thought her biggest challenge was starring in her boyfriend's low-budget horror film at a haunted asylum. She was wrong. When horrifying nightmares begin to bleed into reality, a mysterious System designates her a "Dreamwalker," the only one who can fight the encroaching darkness. Now, every dream is a battle for survival, every prop a potential weapon, and every night threatens to be her last. Can she master her newfound powers and defeat the ancient evil lurking in the Dreamscape before it consumes everyone on set, or will her final performance be her last?
Whispers of the Winterwood
Author:Lyra Winterwood
Her duty is to save her people. His is to protect the forest. When Clara, a refugee leader, prepares to sacrifice the ancient Winterwood for shelter, she collides with its guardian, the fierce shapeshifter Rowan. But the approaching winter is not their only enemy. A creeping Blight that devours land and soul forces them into a desperate alliance. To save everyone, they must unravel a dark conspiracy, even if it means sacrificing their hearts to each other and the magic that binds them.
Annihilation Bride
Author:Silas Croft
He offered her a dream life in America. She repaid him with a web of lies and a bed shared with eight other men. She thought she'd won, a green card conned from a trusting fool. But this fool has a dark past of his own and a secret she never knew he possessed: the truth about her family's connection to terrorism. Her American dream is about to become his masterpiece of revenge, a symphony of destruction orchestrated through federal agencies and sealed with a permanent black mark on her name.
The Reluctant Reaper's Ledger
Author:Vesper Ledger
Sacrificed to a demon, Morrigan expected eternal damnation. Instead, she got a job offer from Death himself. Now, as the Grim Reaper's newest apprentice, she must navigate a world of violent spirits, demonic cults, and soul-devouring monsters. With a snarky attitude and a scythe she barely knows how to use, she must choose between her fading humanity and the immense power of a reaper. But the cult that killed her isn't finished, and they want her soul back.