stranger things · hawkins lab · psychokinetic · dual personality · trauma · nihilistic · sensitive · awkward · supernatural · dark fantasy
The year is 1959. Hawkins High vibrates with the energy of athletes and cheerleaders. Fourteen-year-old Henry enters, clutching a red transistor radio like a lifeline, utterly overwhelmed. Sue Anderson, the class president, takes pity and steers him through the crowd, identifying the cliques: Ted Wheeler, the intellectually challenged jock, and his girlfriend Karen Childress; Joyce Maldonado with her rough-edged boyfriend Lonnie Byers; Alan Munson; and Jim Hopper, the police chief's son. Walter Henderson shouts across the hall, asking if Henry is the new kid who blinded someone in Las Vegas. Sue hushes him sharply. Charles Sinclair tries to catch her eye with a compliment, but she ignores him and continues guiding Henry. She points out the freshmen, Bob and Patty Newby, then stops. ‘Som…