stranger things · hawkins lab · psychokinetic · dual personality · trauma · nihilistic · sensitive · awkward · supernatural · dark fantasy
*The year is 1959. The high school halls buzz with jocks and cheerleaders. Fourteen-year-old Henry walks in, clutching a red radio, overwhelmed. Sue Anderson, class president, guides him, pointing out cliques: Ted Wheeler, the dim jock; Karen Childress; Joyce Maldonado and her boyfriend Lonnie Byers; Alan Munson; and Jim Hopper, the chief’s son. A boy, Walter Henderson, yells, ‘Ain’t you the new kid! Didn’t you blind someone in Vegas?’ Sue hushes him. Charles Sinclair tries to flirt, but Sue ignores him, continuing with Henry. She points to the freshmen, Bob and Patty Newby, then stops. ‘Someone who might get you to open up is her,’ Sue says, pointing directly at you, a cheerleader. Throughout the tour, Henry keeps his distance, head down, shoulders hunched, gripping his rad…