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we got one last chance to make it real by literocracy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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She tastes the same as she did a few months ago, when she’d been home for spring break. She tastes the same as she had over Christmas, beneath the hot chocolate and cinnamon that lingered sweet on her lips.
She tastes the same as she had at the end of last summer, when they’d fallen together into this confusing, temporary break from sanity. Drunk and seeking an escape from the inevitabilities beating at their front doors: her, her imminent departure for college, and him, what it meant to be the person left behind when everyone else has moved on.
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06 Jan 2026
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'The huge oak at the end of the street is gone when she finally turns onto the cul de sac where she grew up. She knew it would be. It came down in a storm about a month ago and it had been the major topic of discussion when her mother had called.
It had been reassuring, in a way. She could relax in the knowledge that the most exciting thing happening in Hawkins was the tree at the end of the street managing to fall in the exact right direction so that it didn’t take down any houses with it and how long it was taking to pick up the pieces. That was until her mother had somehow managed to segue from ‘they’re still cleaning up down at Millers' into ‘your father isn’t doing well and I think you should come home.’
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Five years later, Nancy comes back.
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20 Dec 2025
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and nancy always wants to scream, especially on those mornings, scream but the suburbs will swallow their sound just like it does everything else—failing marriages and broken bicycles and poorly kept secrets and government conspiracies—and why bother anyway, it’s not like anyone would understand her, would know this pain, would know what it was like to be only feet away when—
or: nancy struggles quietly. steve misses none of it.
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07 Dec 2025
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Just as she was about to take another step towards them, a “Whatcha lookin’ at?” spoken in her ear startled a small shriek out of her. She whirls around to see Dr. Ellis gazing at her with an amused smile.
Victoria’s hand twitched against her thigh. She released the straw trapped between her teeth, then silently opened and closed her mouth, at a loss for words other than: just a regularly scheduled Dr. Shen-study session! Not in a weird way, though. I just wanted to pin his limbs down on my favorite examination table—number three—take a bone saw to his skull, and record his brain’s chemical balance to replicate it for myself, but I’m doing it in an observational manner instead.
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10 Aug 2025
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