Apricotsinthegarden
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Snapshots of Lucas and Max’s lives after the series end, strongly focused on them both with cameos from other characters.
Focusing on the trauma, the love they have for each other and what goes on in their lives post series. -
Speaking My Truth by Apricotsinthegarden for critture
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Mar 2026
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Eleven was someone who thought she understood who she was before discovering that is not the case and goes through a journey of self-discovery
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After the events at the MAC-Z, Mike Wheeler is struggling with the past and needs to move on, he learns and tries to figure out who he is.
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This is all over (Thank you, you were an experience) by Apricotsinthegarden
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2026
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It was all over…Vecna was dead, they would all be free, but not everyone.
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Spring Break 1985, El and Max hang out all the time, Lucas and Mike go on vacation and feelings are discovered.
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We Write the Ending (We’re Masters of Our Own Fate) by Lizi_in_Limbo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Five years after graduating high school, Mike Wheeler is living a secluded, lonely life. He lives in a tiny apartment with his memories, dreams, and a typewriter. When he starts receiving mysterious mail, his long held hope for love bursts forth, and he ends up going on a journey that changes his life. Forever.
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12 Mar 2026
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and through death, i discovered life by arcadesintheneighbourhood
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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13 years after the events of the season 5, El is working at the local radio station and living happily with her long-term boyfriend in the UK. So what happens when her partner's new friend and coworker happens to be Mike Wheeler, the love of her life and a ghost of her past? And what happens when he delivers some life-changing news about an important person from her past, one that has her questioning her current life and relationships?
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11 Mar 2026
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Seven years after losing Eleven in the aftermath of The Party's final battle against Vecna, Mike Wheeler still hasn't been able to move on. With a handful of proof and reckless hope, he believes that he's the only one who can find her.
What neither of them could possibly know is that Eleven's final sacrifice may have been in vain after all...
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10 Mar 2026
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in hopes her heart can hear (three-thousand miles, he calls again) by otorauthorized
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Mar 2026
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"Is someone who lingers behind inevitably cast away under the assumption that they are beyond repair? When sympathy is offered only briefly, does it still count as compassion at all? If healing takes too long, when does patience curdle into resentment?
Is there any need for a clock with frozen hands– or a tide that never recedes?
He slowly backed his fingers away from the keys as he stared at his blinking cursor. Cool air blew at him from his open window staring out onto East 58th Street & 3rd Avenue. The smell of crisp leaves and fresh rain hit him like a wave of nostalgia from his childhood. He really loved the atmosphere of New York..."
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09 Mar 2026
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It's after Billy's death, Max is drowning in grief she can't share and pushing away everyone who tries to help…especially Lucas. In mandatory counseling sessions, she insists she's fine while her grades drop and isolation deepens. But some things are too heavy to carry alone, even when letting someone in feels more terrifying than the alternative.
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09 Mar 2026