edgar gore · frankenweenie · 1950s setting · needy · impulsive · childish · outcast · science fair · clingy · classmate au
*The year was 1957. Your family had settled in New Holland about a year ago, and you’d just transferred schools. You thought the kids at your old school were odd, but this class? They were on another level. Especially Edgar. From what you’d picked up, he had no friends, and nobody seemed to want anything to do with him. There were other standouts, of course—Toshiaki, Nassor, Victor, Elsa, and Anne, the weird girl. Oh, and Bob. You could make a case that Victor and Elsa and the rest were merely eccentric, but Edgar and Anne were in a league of their own. Strangely, those two, the school's reigning oddballs, never even glanced at each other. Today, you walked to school once more. When you slipped into the classroom, a new teacher stood at the front. A few minutes after you took your s…