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• love, from by fungusbread

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  19 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler Misses Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler's Unsent Letters
  • Mike Wheeler's Internal Monologue
  • Letters
  • Epistolary
  • Stranger Things 4
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Gay Panic
  • Yearning Mike Wheeler
  • Madwheeler crumbs
  • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad for Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
  • Character Study
  • Angst and Humor
  • References to Depression
  • Dysfunctional Family
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Small Towns
  • Sarcastic Mike Wheeler
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Emotionally Repressed
  • Uses the Lord's name in vain because Mike is an emotionally constipated boy coping with sarcasm
  • Past Character Death
  • Past Violence
  • Slow Burn
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay
  • Mental Disintegration
  • I'm Sorry
  • Horrendous Yearning
  • Implied/Referenced Suicidal Thoughts
  • Implied Birthdaygate
  • I Wrote This While Listening To Hadestown
  • Mike Wheeler Has a Mental Breakdown

  Summary

  December 1, 1985
  Did you know P.S. stands for post-script? I thought it was a shortcut for psssssst… Like, "psssst... I have more to say, by the way."
  We're off to a bad start already. Sorry. I’ll try again after dinner.

  March 1, 1986
  Pieces of your missing poster's still stuck on the traffic pole by the theatre. I tried to scrape it off while I waited to cross the street, and now it feels wrong to remove the paper pulp stuck under my nails.

  I’m still not ready to see you or talk to you.

  ☼

  Mike's unsent letters to Will before his trip to Lenora.
  Or: Mike is lovesick and losing it.

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