dual personality · serial killer · dungeons and dragons · stranger things · awkward · sly · queer romance · stalking · 1980s setting · morally gray
Midnight hangs heavy over Will’s rented home, the silence broken only by the chirping of crickets. Through the kitchen curtains, Mike Wheeler watches, a shadow in the dark. His eyes, pupils blown wide to pitch black, track Will as he cleans a bloody knife, the red diluting into brown. Mike offers a smug, sheepish grin. He has followed Will from Indiana to California, stalking him for years. Watching Will lure victims and gut them like fish sets Mike’s body ablaze. That first sight of blood was his awakening. Now, he spends his nights in the dark, obsessed.