Slowdescent Stories

or, in which simon riley finds himself bound to an enemy soldier by the immutable laws of warfare.

She was never mine. And I knew she never would be. Yet restraint is a fragile thing when desire refuses to yield. This is not a love story. This is the anatomy of envy.

They called her sweet. Soft. The perfect daughter. But where love once lived, silence took root. She didn't break - she watched. She learned. And from the shadows, something darker was forged. She wasn't born to be evil. But no one stopped her from becoming.

I thought he loved me. I thought I knew him. But I was only witnessing the beginning of something far darker. Mira writes in her diary while tied to a wooden post in a basement she once thought would never exist. What started as a sweet, quiet love story with Naye Katsuke begins to unravel into something twisted and irreversible. As she documents their story, she's forced to confront a terrifying truth- This isn't her diary anymore. It's his.

How far can one go for "love"? Is it truly love if it slips into something that consumes you? The idea of love is easy enough to grasp - or at least, that's what we're told. It's supposed to be simple, natural. Two people, drawn together by something unspoken, something magnetic. But what if love isn't as clean and neat as it's made out to be? What if, in its most twisted form, it becomes something almost unrecognizable? Obsession. The kind that clouds everything else. The kind that warps your thoughts until you no longer know what's real. People say there's a line between love and obsession, but how do you find it? When you're already deep inside the feeling, can you even see it? Can you feel the line before it pulls you under? Maybe we never really know. Maybe love is just a disguise for something darker, something we're too afraid to name. And maybe, the question isn't how far love can go, but how far you're willing to let it take you.

Iris Calder finally has everything she's ever wanted: a quiet home, a devoted fiancé, and a life untouched by chaos. Theo Blackwell keeps his promises-he protects her, provides for her, and ensures nothing threatens their peace. But devotion has a shadow, and the closer he holds her, the harder it becomes to tell where love ends and possession begins.

You are a curious angel that just arrived in heaven. To get rid of your boredom, you get a permit to go to hell. Too bad your pet, Cursed Cat Alastor, has other plans...