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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    “I don’t know you anymore, Frank. Like, what is this? What happened to you? And you want me to sell you my fucking bookstore?”

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    or: Ten years ago, Frank and Gerard had a summer fling that felt a lot like love. The last decade hasn't been easy for either of them, and now they're both leading lives they never planned for. Gerard is the reluctant owner of a failing bookstore left to him by his grandmother, staying sober and keeping the place open and not doing much else. Frank is a reluctant corporate broker, white-knuckling sobriety by not staying in one place too long, buying buildings for companies he doesn't respect.

    When their current lives intersect over six weeks, they confront who they are, who they were, and the feelings they never fully grew out of.

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    01 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    Part 2 of Who Will Look After the Dogs - please read that first before going into this one!

    November 1st has always been a weird day for Frank. it's the day after his birthday, and for some reason, the absolute best and worst days of his life keep falling on it. Gerard seems to follow a similar pattern.

    This story follows Frank and Gerard across thirteen years of November 1sts.

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    29 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    (Sequel to Restricted Section)

    Mikey Way has never been in love. He’s had plenty of romantic flings, even a couple of short-term relationships; but he’s never really felt it.
    But then he meets Noah, a man who's learning to find love after abuse, and Mikey finds himself falling hard.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    When he boards the elevator he’s upset. By the time he leaves the elevator he’s angry, each reverberation of his feet hitting asphalt felt in the remaining bones and surgical grade titanium in his right leg, all the way up to his hip. It takes him less than sixty seconds to walk from the parking deck to the ambulance bay. Ten feet from the entrance, he sees Robby walk through the first set of doors, past Ahmad, and then through the second set of doors. His pulse roars in his ears, his heart pounding in his chest. For the first time in years, Jack Abbot feels something approximating rage, an emotion he has long assumed to be medicated out of him.

    His hands furl into fists.

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    Robby commits the critical error of making Samira cry. Jack reacts.

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    16 Mar 2026

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    A flyer pinned to the community bulletin board at Frank's favorite dive bar reads:

    TATTOO TAP-OUT. $350, ARTIST'S CHOICE. I'LL INK YOU 'TIL YOU CRY. (8 HRS MAX). SHOW UP @ MXRDER SCENE TATTOO & LET'S DO THIS.

    He tears it off the board and stumbles outside with a half-empty Schlitz. To drive home sober is but a suggestion.

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    OR, a weird middle-ground between a bottle episode and a dialogue study, in which Gerard Way is a tattoo artist and Frank Iero is an ink fiend willing to take eight hours under a needle in exchange for... well, he isn't sure.

    Spanning a year's worth of tattoo appointments-- trending toward mutual therapy sessions-- and the occasional adventure, Frank and Gerard bond over croquet teams, missing cats, deep fears, and the belief that a city can shatter a heart, but the right person can put it back together again.

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    25 Feb 2026