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After Mike's head hits the pavement during the MAC-Z battle, he starts acting strange. The world is loud. Everyone smells weird. Will is pretty. His teeth really hurt.
As the military hunts Will down, Mike learns what it truly means to protect the one person he loves more than life itself. The voice in his head encourages him. It gets louder. Hungrier. Until Mike fully succumbs to its force.
He is Will's loyal companion. His sworn protector. His Dobermann.
And there is no force in the multiverse that can stop him.
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- Part 1 of The Mind of a Horror Fan
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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05 Jun 2026
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“Come on,” Mike argues. “Think of it like… a test drive. You’ll get the full Mike Wheeler boyfriend experience. It’s miserable! You’ll be over me in no time!”
They only have one last summer before they go off to college, and Will is sick of keeping his cards so close to his chest. So, in a fit of alcohol-induced bravery, he tells Mike everything.
Instead of breaking his heart, Mike proposes a deal: they’ll date for the summer. Get Mike out of Will’s system, show him he makes for a lousy boyfriend anyway, and make sure there aren’t any what-ifs waiting for him in New York.
No stone left unturned, after all.
Or: Summer brings clouds, nostalgia, and the all-consuming fear of change. They deal with it.
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27 May 2026
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Four years ago, Will Byers packed his car, drove to Portland and tried very hard to let Mike Wheeler go.
He was almost managing.
Until a government agency comes knocking about a series of mysterious incidents on a remote Alaskan island - incidents that look suspiciously familiar. Will agrees to help. Unbeknownst to him, there's one other person assigned to the case with similar experience.
When they both end up in the same place, the answers they're searching for are ones they just might find in each other.
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27 May 2026
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Something happened between Mike and Will during winter break of ‘89, and they haven’t spoken in four years. When Mike moves to New York for grad school in 1993, he is finally starting to figure himself out, and he wants to fix things with Will. He has no idea where to begin, so he writes a play about it.
Will has been building a life for himself in NYC as a painter. He has a boyfriend, volunteers with an AIDS housing program, and pays his rent by acting in other people’s plays – including, as it turns out, Mike’s.
A story about the damage of being loved before you’re ready, and about trying to make your way back (with a little help along the way from your meddling older siblings).
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26 May 2026