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    As if being the designated babysitter wasn't enough, Steve finds himself accidentally becoming the group's designated birthday baker. Not that he minds - he likes to feel needed, plus it's a good distraction from the nightmares that have plagued him since that fateful night at the mall.

    He does mind, however, the fact that Billy Hargrove seems to be weaving his way into the group. He's apparently had a personality transplant since the Mind Flayer nearly tore him apart, or so the story goes, but Steve isn't duped. It's fine, though, he can carry on ignoring the guy and ignoring the way his face still tingles with the ghost of Billy's fists.

    But then, get this.

    Steve has to bake Billy a birthday cake, too.

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    24 Dec 2025

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    Perfection

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    In which the night at the Byers house goes differently when Billy arrives. Steve and Billy are friends before that night and that changes everything. Rather than sending him away, Steve recruits him.

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    15 Dec 2025

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    The worst part is it was supposed to be a quick run.

    (Ruby Munson is 16 when she sneaks out of her house in the year 2005 and somehow ends up in the 1980s looking at a young version of her Dad and all his friends.)

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    22 Mar 2025

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    The day he faced a monster at the Byers' house, that should have been the end of it. That's how stories are supposed to go, right?

    It's October 1984, and Demogorgons are still coming to Hawkins from the Upside Down, opening gates around Hawkins Lab. Every night, Steve patrols the woods, hoping to stop them before they kill anyone else.

    Hawkins has had a hard year.

    When the new guy that's been giving him shit in gym class is attacked by a Demogorgon, Steve saves his life. Now if only he would stop turning up in dangerous places in various states of injury... Because Demogorgons are attracted to blood.

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    07 Mar 2024

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    Wars aren’t always fought on battlefields.

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    19 Nov 2023