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• i can tell you, i love him each day (my friend is gone, he ran away) by internetclub

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  09 Mar 2026

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Litfic
  • Yearning
  • One-Sided Attraction
  • Angst
  • Memories
  • Post-Canon
  • Introspection
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Stream of Consciousness
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Character Study
  • Emotional Hurt
  • Denial of Feelings
  • Pining
  • Guilt
  • Symbolism
  • Title from a Sufjan Stevens Song

  Summary

  In which Mike Wheeler has now become an essayist, writing plenty of personal essays about his youth. But, as all great writers do, they have to write about the people that they've known.

  Unfortunately, every story leads back to one person: Will Byers.

  Mike does not know how to handle that.

  Or: Mike is unable to narrativize his feelings for Will, without being haunted by the guilt of who he loved as a kid.

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