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    A a lot of people die in the mall fire. Including Steve Harrington. Eddie doesn't care, until he does.

    Featuring- falling in love with the memory of a dead boy, too many exorcisms, Robin Buckley's love of radical zines, and a heavy dose of religious trauma

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    24 Apr 2026

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    So when Hop asks, when Murray asks, when Owens asks, when the doctors ask, when the specialist asks, he says: fall of ‘84, Billy Hargrove, in the Byers’ living room, with the dinner plate. He says: that’s when the static started in both ears, worse in the left than the right, but both weren’t great. He says: some mornings I woke up and it was like I heard everything like I was under water, but it would get better as the day wore on. He says: yeah, sometimes I got headaches too, and that made the static more. He says: after Starcourt, but just before, it did get worse, yeah. He says: I’d been practicing lip reading for a while, because I think some part of me always knew. He says: it was just gone, after that: no static, nothing blurry, just silence with the occasional whine when Hop got that whistle right.

    Steve Harrington, and life after death.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    Sure, he kind of figured people might make it a big deal. After all, it wasn’t just Sam Owens as their coach talking up how this men’s team for USA Gymnastics could be the ones to break the streak since the Trials — it’s the whole of the gymnastics world, and goddamn if people didn’t love an underdog. It’s only that he’d just also sort of figured it’ll be about all of them: him and Lucas and McKinney and the rest of them. But they’d latched onto him, and now Steve has people tweeting about him and asking if he has a girlfriend or a boyfriend or someone, making memes and TikToks and edits, there’s a fucking timer, apparently, on NBC, or so Erica’s saying there’s gonna be (and historically she can’t be trusted not to lie to Steve’s damn face for fun, so he’ll believe it when he sees it, right), when Finals for the team come around, counting down to his event. The Harrington countdown. And, like, someone called him Clark Kent during the team qualifications? Like! What the fuck. How fuckin’ wild, right? Him. Jesus!

    Or: This Steve's job is horse. Also, he's got an unfortunate crush on a middle-aged former rock star.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    Mike had scoffed, again, and Steve tried not to be insulted when he’d said, “Steve? Why Steve?”

    “Because Steve’s had more Valentine’s than any of us combined!” Dustin had said.

    “Yeah, because he’s a serial monogamist —”

    “Shut the fuck up,” Steve had said. “Also, who taught you those words?”

    Eddie had teetered his hand back and forth in the air. “Personally, I think there’s a certain stolen RV confession negates that, but —”

    “You shut the fuck up right now even faster —”

    In which Mike and Eddie have a bet, Steve is the victim of circumstance, and he's not super mad about it.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    “Back in tenth grade, he’d done his final report for World History on prophecies. The Greeks were kind of the last people who’d really made a big deal about it, even though there’d been recorded True Prophecies well into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was more that people had gotten weird about it — didn’t want to believe in predestination and a concrete future, even though it was something like a one in a billion chance you’d get a True Prophecy about yourself or even someone you knew; people just liked to feel special, Eddie thought, and hated when they weren’t — and so it had slid to the fringes of society and anyone who might have Sight got swept into the insular embrace of the Priestesses of the Quiet Sisters.” Or: Steve dies at the end. Or: a story about prophecies, love, and loopholes.

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    18 Apr 2026