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Life at the Byers household is good. If you are Will, who have become popular in a fancy art school. Or Jonathan, who have found his calling. Or Joyce, who is happy for her sons sake.
But for El Byers, her new home is a place of loneliness. She misses the one person that always make her feel like she belongs. She misses Mike Wheeler. How much can she miss him before she decides to stop missing him?
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Mike Wheeler never stopped loving Eleven. He never stopped carrying the guilt of what he couldn’t save. When his nearly finished book refuses to let one character go missing, Mike realises the truth: you can’t write your way around grief.
A trip to Iceland, once a promise whispered between them on a rooftop, becomes something more than travel. It’s a pilgrimage. A love letter. A chance to say all the words he never got to say.
Amid waterfalls, northern lights, and memories that refuse to stay buried, Mike must decide whether love is something you move on from…or something that asks you to follow it, even into the unknown.
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23 Jan 2026
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It's been 2922 days. His family urges him to move on and live a life that he's been putting on hold, but Mike just can't bring himself to.
He finds comfort in writing books about El, until one day he decides it's time to try and do what he's so afraid of doing. Looking for her.Bookmarked by Snurvel
17 Jan 2026
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So Many Foreign Roads (For Emma, Forever Ago) by writeyourheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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He reaches for the glass of wine again. He takes another swallow. And then—
It happens. It’s nothing. It’s a flicker, a second, a feeling at first. The hair at the base of his neck feels like its been grazed, electric and immediate and impossible—so, utterly impossible. Because he hasn’t felt this since—since—
Mike readjusts in his seat, just a little. Fingers brush his, feather light. And then the world tilts, and he’s swallowed into the darkness. He hardly has the time to breathe before he looks up and sees her. Not a hallucination, not a stranger on the street with the same hair, or the same style. Her.
El.
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In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in Reykjavík—El finds Mike's published book and builds the courage to take it home with her.
In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in New York—Mike cannot seem to adjust to life without her.
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14 Jan 2026
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Wherein Mike receives an unexpected visitor on the night he finishes writing his novel in 1993.
Hopefully some Mileven balm for your soul.
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06 Jan 2026
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one day we'll meet again (in the light of my love for you) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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El runs and she keeps running until she's about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It's not a happy life, but she's content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike's safe, he's not happy, not by a long shot. He's living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost... of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he'll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they'll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share... and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
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05 Jan 2026