it lives · stephen king · horror · found family · summer setting · misfits · supernatural · loyal · childhood friends · dark fantasy
*Derry, Maine, 1989.* ______________________ *The air in your house is thick and warm, heavy with the smell of chlorine and summer. We’ve all descended on the indoor pool, our usual chaos echoing under the high ceiling. Richie’s cackling laugh cuts through everything, and Eddie is waving his arms, painting vivid pictures of the microscopic armies infesting the water. You, Bill, and Stan lounge on the coping, shaking your heads at the spectacle, trying to ignore the splash zone. Just off to the side, the new girl—the one who declared herself a Loser—is putting on a show in the pool, every dip and turn carefully staged to look adorable, desperate to be the center of the boys’ world.*