grimaldi bakery

A late-night bakery. A moody baker. And cookies that taste like feelings. Tucked into a quiet corner of old Tokyo, there’s a bakery that only comes alive after dark. Its name is Moonlight Crumbs, and every night at exactly 9:00 PM, a warm, golden scent curls through the air, pulling in lost souls and night wanderers. At the heart of it all is Elias Greywood, a quiet man who bakes to forget. Each cookie he makes unknowingly carries a trace of his emotions — his joy, his sorrow, his longing for a home that no longer feels like home. Customers swear his cookies taste like memories they forgot they had. Elias just thinks he’s bad at following recipes. What Elias doesn’t know is that his family’s old house — the machiya he still calls home — has a secret. Something ancient sleeps beneath its floors, something that remembers his parents, remembers every tear and every laugh poured into their baking.

Lyra built her cafe from nothing, flour-dusted mornings, a till that barely balances, and a dream she refuses to let die. She doesn't have time for love. She definitely doesn't have time for Ethan, the infuriatingly charming regular who keeps showing up at closing time with the wrong order and the right smile. Then there's Damon, Ethan's best friend, always one step ahead, always a little too interested in her. Lyra tells herself it's nothing. Ethan tells himself it's nothing too. But in Gorgo City, nothing stays simple. Not the bakery. Not the rivalry. Some love stories rise slowly, like dough left to prove overnight. This one's about to boil over.

After failing his university entrance exams, Kwang-su is sent by his father to a remote village to live with a grandfather he’s never met. Upon arrival, he’s greeted by an unfamiliar elderly man—his grandfather’s boyfriend. Confused and unsettled, Kwang-su later meets his real grandfather, a village baker. At the bakery, he’s introduced to the boyfriend’s charming grandson, with whom he must now work. Their first encounter is tense, marked by misunderstanding. But as they spend time together, an unexpected connection begins to bloom—one that promises to shift the course of Kwang-su’s quiet, reluctant new life...

Lucky Charm Coffee Shop and Bakery is a humble shop in a place of general chaos. Here the laws of physics warp and change without a care, buildings randomly shuffle around, and no one is quite sure where they came from. It is both the easiest and hardest place to find in the multiverse, never staying in one place. This shop in particular is a hotspot for travelers of all kinds, time travelers, dimension travelers, and even people who weren't trying to travel at all. The owner of the place welcomes them all so long as they have a few items they are willing to trade for her treats. Welcome to Lucky Charm Coffee Shop and Bakery, I hope you enjoy your stay. (Also published to scribblehub and quotev, for maximum serotonin)

The world had a pandemic for a year due to a deadly virus, yet everything went back to normal because to humanity's solidarity. People can now travel to their desired destinations, go to work, and attend school. However, on the first day of school, the small city called Esquiver is thrown into chaos. Monsters began to prowl the area, killing nearly everyone; all communications, including radio and phone, were disrupted. As a massive barrier encircled the City, rescue could not be sent. Everyone was distraught and afraid, and they were on the verge of losing their minds. Friends, lovers, and family members were cruelly murdered, and there was no way to fight back against those scary and wicked beasts. During the chaos, a group of students who had been hiding suddenly passed out. They had been sleeping for five hours, and when they awakened, they were terrified by an image floating in mid-air. (!) ALARM [ WELCOME, PLAYER]

Dua orang dengan kepribadian yang berbeda dan latar belakang yang berbeda. Dipertemukan dengan cara yang konyol yaitu Kencan Buta. Cerita tentang Park Jimin seorang Ceo muda sukses nan Tampan yang menjadi dambaan hampir semua kaum hawa di kota seoul. Tapi, tak seorang pun yang menarik perhatian lelaki bermarga Park itu hingga akhirnya ia bertemu dengan Yoo Nara, seorang gadis pemilik Toko Roti yang ditemui nya karena Kencan Buta yang di rencanakan oleh Ibu Mereka. Lalu, apa jadi nya Jika saat Pria Park itu telah tertarik pada keunikan Gadis pemilik Toko Roti itu, tapi Justru sang gadis masih menutup rapat pintu hati nya.

I was 19 years old when I was knocked out and abducted. It happened on my dad's festive, we were celebrating the whole day. And without realizing a man not much older than me filled me up while flirting with me. After two years of being nothing but a tool, I often ask myself how I ever could be that dumb. How my past me trusted strangers too easily. But if you had lived a normal life, than this would be normal. Celebrating, having fun, flirting and drinking.... I wished I could go back in time. Warn my younger idiotic naive me. Till he stepped into my cage and made my worst nightmares come true.

The end of the world didn't come with a quiet virus or a silent whimper; it arrived on the wind as an echo of booming, sadistic laughter. Inside the colossal, brutalist fortress-cities known as the Redoubts, humanity clings to survival behind massive stone walls, connected only by heavily armored steam trains cutting through the toxic waste. But outside the iron gates roams the ultimate nightmare: the Grinned. These towering, mutated giants—ranging from three to sixty meters tall—were born from the sudden, catastrophic atmospheric blowout of the Red Spill. They are not mindless beasts driven by primal hunger. The Grinned retained their human intelligence, meaning they actively strategize, engineer massive traps, and chillingly mimic the screams of lost children to lure soldiers out of hiding, smiling with manic, unhinged ecstasy the entire time. One drop of their pressurized, infectious blood into an open wound or eye turns an ally into a cackling monster in just thirty seconds. To fight these massive sadists, elite scouts rely on the Valkyrie Harness, a steam-powered aerial grapple system that allows them to swing through the air at lethal speeds. But slicing a giant's neck at fifty miles per hour is a suicide mission that requires dodging a localized rain of boiling, infectious fluid. In this world, there is no chosen one and absolutely no plot armor. **GRIN** is a relentless, multi-volume anthology where any character can die at any second. Volume One, "The Iron Gate," throws a desperate group of survivors into the meat-grinder when the outer wall crumbles, forcing an elite scout, a fake soldier, a cold pathologist, and a crew of escaped death-row inmates to fight together for the last train out. Volume Two, "The Long Road," plunges into claustrophobic psychological horror aboard an armored train stranded in the fog-choked wastes, haunted by a giant mimicking human voices over the radio. Volume Three, "The Blood Covenant," uncovers a dark political conspiracy in the high-society inner rings, exposing the sick truth of how the elite have been fueling their empires using the spinal fluid of captured giants. Trapped inside the pressure cooker of the collapsing Redoubts, the monsters outside are only half the threat. Out here, the corrupt cops, murderers, and predators standing next to you are just as lethal as the smiling giants clawing at the gates. Wipe the blood from your eyes, because the show is about to begin.

In her past life, Su Yaoguang bought Xiao Yanci, supported his education, and helped him rise to great heights. She became his wife. Everyone praised him for never abandoning the farm girl who funded his rise. Su Yaoguang also believed she had found a good man. Unexpectedly, when she was seriously ill, she saw Xiao Yanci bring his first love and a child who resembled them both to her bedside. "Dad, mom, when will this person die?" the child asked, holding Xiao Yanci's hand. Xiao Yanci responded, "Soon, just wait a bit longer." That was the moment she realized: she had wasted her entire life on the wrong man. Returning to the age of fifteen, Su Yaoguang pointed at the bloody young boy: "I want him." In her past life, no matter what she gave Xiao Yanci, she only received a cold expression. This time, the young boy, like a wolf cub, dropped his guard; everything Sister gifted was the best. Sweet as milk. Devoted beyond reason. He melted her completely. Until one day, the young boy took a high position. Not wanting history to repeat itself, Su Yaoguang packed her things and slipped away at night, only to run into a man as noble and unattainable as a deity. "I've heard you call us siblings everywhere. Good sister, shouldn't we change what we call each other?"