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 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.
The Ghost in the Shelves
Author:Tristan Snyder
Elara Vance, a passionate young librarian, thought she'd found her dream job. Instead, she walked into a three-year nightmare orchestrated by a manipulative colleague who turned the entire school against her. Ignored, isolated, and broken, Elara was just a ghost in the halls. But on her last day, she found a way to haunt them all. With a single click, she turned the library's digital heart into a wasteland, setting the stage for a perfectly tailored revenge. Now, from the ashes of her old life, she will watch her tormentor drown in the chaos she created.
The Frost-Bound Arbiter
Author:Silas Thorne
In the fog-shrouded city of Veridia, where a magical pact enforces truth, Arbiter Kaelen Vance is a walking lie. Bound to a frost demon that grants him terrifying power, he hunts the city's supernatural underworld. His latest target is Rhys, a shadow-wielding thief trapped by a demonic debt. But when a monstrous third party emerges, seeking an artifact that could shatter the city's very foundation, the cop and the criminal are forced into a fragile alliance. With a demon whispering in his soul and enemies closing in, Kaelen must decide which is more dangerous: the evil he hunts, or the one he holds within.
Echoes on Serpent's Pass
Author:Echo Thorne
My family's car broke down on a haunted mountain pass. A demonic tiger stalked us in the dark, but a mysterious ambulance saved us. When we arrived, my family remembered nothing. Our car was perfect, our rescuer was a ghost, and I was the only one who knew the truth. Now, trapped in the city, I still hear the ghostly siren wailing my name. It saved me once, but I fear its next arrival won't be a rescue. It's a reminder of a debt I never agreed to pay.
The Principle of Retribution
Author:Alistair Thorne
A spilled drink. A cruel lesson. For Seraphina, it was a moment of casual cruelty. For Alex, a scholarship student in a world of elites, it was a declaration of war. He repaid her with a cold pint of leftovers, but that was just the beginning. In the gilded halls of Blackwood University, where a name means more than merit, Alex discovers that every action has a consequence. He will become the one to collect the debts the powerful think they can ignore, one perfectly executed revenge at a time. But as the stakes escalate, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous game with the one person he despises most, blurring the line between hate and obsession.
The Walker's Woods
Author:Jenny Barrett
Liam sought solace in the Vermont wilderness to escape the ruins of his life. But the woods have their own master. He is not a guest, but prey in a twisted game run by a creature that walks like a man, hunts like a demon, and smiles with the cold promise of a leisurely, terrifying death. Lost and tormented, Liam must fight not just the monster in the trees, but the one in his mind, before the forest claims him forever.