stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

Title:A Lonely Avenue (part ten)
Author: zmphony
Pairing: Frank/Gerard
Rating/Warning: R, Frerard vampire AU.
Disclaimer: All fiction, I promise.
A/N: Sorry this so long to post, I've been trying to make the updates faster than once a week, but i'm kinda stuck with that deadline =[ i know, totally ballsy. But I hope this chapter makes it better^^
Summary: Willow Avenue. It's been quite alone most the time. It's always been alone. Atleast, at nighttime it is. He watched these nights. Frank knew he did. He was new to the neighborhood.

part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six | part seven | part eight | part nine |


( suddenly complete me. . . )

Title: Electrifying
POV: Part 1: Gerard Part 2: Frank
Rating: Part 1: PG Part 2: R
Warnings: swearing, sexual language/actions

Summary: "With the way our hips are grinding, the burning gazes, the erratic flashes of light - it's all so electrifying.

Disclaimer: obviously, I made this up.


( READ IT! )

Title: Save Yourself - Chapter 3 (sequel to "Please, Try Again")
Author: vitalspark
Pairing: Frank/Gerard. Bryar, Toro, Way, Stump, Wentz, Lazzara, Beckett, and Ross all end up making appearances.
Summary: AU -- "Now was not the time to fall apart." From the outside, it was easy to judge the lifestyle that tore apart 20-year-old Frank Iero from his former fiance, small town man turned Oscar-nominated actor, 26-year-old Gerard Way. From the inside, Frank realizes first hand the desperation in a new reality, and the struggle to keep it all together.
Notes: 5,333 words. // Partially beta'd by mestupdreamer24. If my other beta sends the rest, then I'll correct any additional mistakes in this chapter.
Disclaimer: Fake, fake, fake.


All chapters, etcetera, can be found at vitalspark.



( Chapter 3 -- “When you get down real deep to the Maslow hierarchy of needs for myself, I’m pretty sure being annoying is one of my basic needs.” )