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1. love, from by fungusbread

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   20 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.

   Language:

   English

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   7,237

   Chapters:

   21/21

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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