river bar & grill

April 4th. The apocalypse descended, mountains and rivers shattered, and the human world turned into purgatory. April 5th. "Brother Wang Tao, before I die, I ask you for a favor, please take care of my wife..." April 7th. Wang Tao unexpectedly discovered that he could not only see the HP bars of living creatures but also that the creatures he killed would drop loot! "Rest in peace, Big Brother. I will definitely take good care of your wife!"

In the twenty-seventh year of Hong Guang, the allied forces of seven nations invaded the Great Blue Dynasty. Rifled muskets, mortars, and armored vehicles combined into a steel tide, were ultimately shattered by the Great Blue's armored cavalry. Muscle, magic, firearms, cannons... the new and the old powers continuously collided. In an era of great strife, Li Fei, with the help of a Ten Thousand Blood Bead, gradually became an existence akin to a BOSS: 'Is this the extent of your damage? You haven't even taken off one-thousandth of my health.' 'You don't think this is enough to kill me, do you?' 'Don't rush, the second phase is up next!' ......

Lin Ge applied for a job as a bartender at a bar, but the customers who came there seemed strange. The female warrior who wore very little and whose armor could easily be seen through was basically impervious to nothing. The Calamity Mage whose luck value was minus one hundred was lucky to live to this age. The melancholy and lonely King of Skeletons. Skeletons? Drink? Please don't waste it! The Demon King, who loved fooling around with warriors, seemed to have completely forgotten his identity. ... Well, he was starting to get used to these strange guests.

In a dystopian future where Vampires emerged from the shadows in order to stop humanity from becoming extinct, a young woman with a dark past meets a charismatic stranger. As time goes by Private Love Aikawa of military Unit 4-7, finds that she may not be as human as she first thought. Battling rogue vampires, mutated creatures and her own past, Love works to unravel the mysteries behind the secretive Helsing unit, and tries to become the bridge between humans and vampires in a world filled with discrimination. This novel starts intentionally slow through the exposition and the early world and character building, BUT everything kicks into gear after the turning point in the latter half of Volume 1, and especially Volume 2, where the tone of the novel shifts. So, I hope you stick with it and enjoy the wild ride! I also added some song recommendations along the way to listen to whilst you read certain chapters, I hope this helps boost the experience. Public Spotify playlist titles (all under the name LouLou): TLAR - Book 1 TLAR - Book 2 TLAR - Book 3 TLAR - A Fire in Their Wake This is rated 'No one under 17 permitted' for (very) mature themes, including drug use, SA, LGBTQ+ discrimination, very frequent strong language, violence etc. Please note that no storyline is chosen for shallow shock value, and most are taken from personal experience, and hopefully handled with the care, respect and sensitivity they deserve. Disclaimers are added against any chapter that may cause distress. Tip Jar + updates and some extra content: https://ko-fi.com/loulou2 The majority of Volume 1, in a different order and edited as a full novel is available free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Loulou2

Su Ziyu has a golden hourglass of time. Every time the sand runs out, Su will be transported to a different world.

Berawal dari pertemuan mereka di Senior High School membuat mereka kini menjalin sebuah persahabatan yang penuh dengan misteri, teror, ancaman, dan tantangan yang berbahaya. Awalnya, mereka menjalankan sebuah misi karena rasa penasaran akan sekolah baru mereka. Namun rasa penasaran mereka membawa mereka menuju misi-misi selanjutnya yang dipercayakan oleh Kepala Polisi Park secara rahasia kepada mereka hingga membuat mereka menjadi seorang detektif. Ini adalah kisah petualangan 12 pemuda tampan yang dibumbui dengan nuansa horor yang kental di dalamnya. ***** “Berhenti sekarang sebelum semuanya terjadi.” “Kalian semua akan mati saat jam 11 malam.” “Kami sudah menyatu, dan aku adalah bagian dari dirinya.” “Sepertinya begitu. Kita semua akan mati jika kita gagal dalam misi kali ini.” ============================ WARNING! Di sini aku hanya meminjam nama tempatnya saja. Cerita ini hanya fiksi dan murni dari pemikiran penulis. Jadi ini tidak nyata. Tempatnya mungkin nyata dan kalian beberapa mungkin ada yang tahu. Tapi kejadian yang ada di cerita ini hanya karangan penulis belaka. Jadi jangan ada yang menyamakan kejadian yang ada di tempat ini sama dengan kenyataannya. Karena itu berbeda. Dapat dipahami kan? I'm just borrowing the name of the place here. This story is only fiction and purely from the author's thoughts. So this is not real. The place may be real and some of you may know. But the events in this story are only the work of the author. So don't equate what happened in this place with reality. Because it's different. Can it be understood?

A haunted river. A grieving town. A detective running out of time. When the peaceful riverside town of Ọ̀yán is shaken by a string of mysterious drownings, Detective Kareem is assigned the one case no one wants. Each victim dies with the same haunting last word: “Ẹ̀nítàn.” What begins as a local investigation soon unravels a buried legend—of a betrayed river spirit, a sacred curse, and ancestral silence that demands to be broken. As Kareem digs deeper, the river begins to whisper his name too. Whispers by the River is a supernatural mystery inspired by African spirituality, where truth is hidden beneath water, and justice comes with a price.

“Had I ever told you that I want you dead?” “What a coincidence, I want you dead too.” Kimberly Rollins and Vincent Walters are like cats and dogs, archenemies one might say. Clawing and barking is a normal thing, and they can’t bear to see each other’s face, but no matter how they don’t want to see each other, they are bound by a link that can’t be broken; Their sons. Six years ago, they had a steamy night that bore fruit. Wanting to have them alone, Kimberly refused to seek the father of her children and raised them on a country side, completely having a peaceful life while running her bakery. She got what she wants; a peaceful life. … If only she didn’t drink that day. “To the guy I met at the bar, I have your sons!” Kimberly boldly showed her children on a video which gathered thousands and thousands of views, passing from one eye to another. The video was only meant for fun. She’s confident that he won’t find them, he doesn’t even know he got her pregnant. So, he wouldn’t, would he? But the very next day, men in suits raided her bakery, an arrogant man leading them forward, demanding to see her. To her shock, Vincent was the son of a multi-millionaire and he’s in the middle of finding an heir to inherit the highest position of the company! Kimberly soon found herself in a tug of war. One wants to make the twin his heirs, while the other wants to raise them in the town and have a peaceful and simple life. So—who will win the custody of the twin? Would the two of them reach an agreement despite their conflicting ideals? Which one of them will run out of patience first and choke the other one to death?

Born into a society tolerant of homosexuals, River Otter is confused by the white culture’s persecution of such men. As the war begins to wind down, Otter leaves the only home he has ever known to help Major James Morrow, commandant of Ft. Yanube, build a farm north of the fort. He begins a new life with the handsome major while coming to grips with growing hostility toward natives and rising danger from a local militia bent on eliminating all bloods from the territory.<br><br>As his physical attraction for the blond soldier slowly grows into a love perilous to both of them, Otter is distracted by personal challenges. As he struggles to survive the social and political upheaval sweeping the plains, can remain true to his own set of values?

When a mutilated corpse is found by a sacred river in a quiet West African village, a troubled detective teams up with a spiritual elder and a young woman with a mysterious past to uncover a centuries-old curse tied to a drowned river queen—one whose song was silenced, and who now demands the world listen.