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    a collection of little things, microfics and tumblr drabbles

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  1. Rec 22

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    The song washes over him, and Steve blinks back tears.

    He drives back through quiet streets, sees ghosts everywhere he looks.

    Robin waving from the doorway of Family Video. Dustin flipping the bird outside the school gates. Nancy smiling shyly under the Hawk sign. The party piling out of his old beemer into Palace Arcade, Steve’s yelled warning at them to be back out at nine pm sharp if they wanted a ride home echoing through near-empty streets.

    He turns away. Focuses on the road ahead, the road to home, to Forest Hills.

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    Some nights, Steve can't fight the urge to drive laps of Hawkins and make sure there's no Upside Down stirrings, has to check. Some nights, he misses his old friends like crazy.

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    05 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 27

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    Even a decade after relocating to another city, Steve still thinks about a guy he went to high school with.

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    What the hell does he do to his hair to get it like that? All… feathery, but not smooth. It kind of sucks, but it works for him. Him and nobody else. Steve wouldn't be caught dead with his hair looking fried.

    Whatshisname sticks his tongue out to freak out the culty blond kid from the Tigers—John? John Carter?—and Steve watches the curve of it until it's back in his mouth. He knows what the tip of a tongue can do, he's got the experiences to back it up, and he wonders if this guy—seriously what's his fucking name?—has ever gone down on a woman or—

    Or a guy.

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    05 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 4

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    Eddie's been hanging out in Steve's dorm and it's getting late...

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    Steddiemicrofic's December prompt: SLICK

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    07 Dec 2025

  4. Rec 17

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    Branches snap under his feet as he runs, his breath fogging in front of him. It’s cold, but he’s sweating. Fear makes your body do strange things.

    He was safe until he wasn’t. He was alone until he wasn’t.

    He doesn’t know what’s chasing him, he just knows it’s toying with him. It could’ve attacked him minutes ago when he tripped over a vine. It could’ve attacked him only a few seconds earlier when he had to pause at the end of a trail and could practically feel the hot breath on his neck.

    Steve’s losing steam and his chest hurts, and no amount of athleticism could have prepared him for running cross country in the Upside Down. It never gets easier.

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    05 Dec 2025

  5. Rec 60

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    Eddie Munson is sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Chrissy Cunningham in July of 1986.

    Despite everyone’s best efforts, the government did not seem as hellbent on helping him prove his innocence as they did to make sure everyone kept their mouths shut. Hopper and Nancy put more time into pleading his case than any of the fancy lawyers the feds sent to handle it.

    Apparently, a biased jury and judge didn’t much care for whatever proof Nancy had.

    At least he looks alright in orange.

     

    or: The government fails Eddie Munson, but Steve Harrington gives him a dangerous thing: hope.

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    07 Nov 2025