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1. The Essay Hustle by polka_roid

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Suzie Bingham/Dustin Henderson
   • Slight Will Byers/Chance
   • Will Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Chance (Stranger Things)
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Fluff
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Love Letters
   • Miscommunication
   • Pining
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Sassy Will Byers
   • based on a movie
   • Post-Stranger Things 3
   • Pre-Stranger Things 4

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler is good at writing and even better at avoiding people. Life is simple — essays, friends, and staying invisible — until Max convinces him to start a side hustle writing assignments for classmates. Then Chance Fletcher shows up with a personal request: a love letter… to Will Byers. Suddenly, Mike’s carefully controlled life spirals into chaos, proving that some assignments are more complicated than any essay he’s ever written.

   or

   Mike is stupidly in love with Will and writes love letters to him disguised as Chance.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   10,005

   Chapters:

   4/?

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