Eleven's Echo for Strangers Things by Stefano Donno

 Eleven's Echo

A girl with shaved head hums static in the void.

Static in the void, where blood drips from her nose like rain.

Rain from her nose, a storm that splits the ordinary.

Splits the ordinary, flips the world upside down.

Upside down, vines choke the light, her mind a tangled root.

Tangled root, pulling friends from the dark like buried bulbs.

Buried bulbs bloom fierce, her scream a frequency that shatters glass.

Shatters glass, echoes of Papa's lab, cold metal on skin.

Cold metal on skin, but she levitates bikes, defies gravity's pull.

Defies gravity's pull, love her anchor in the endless fall.

Endless fall, yet she rises, waffles warm in her palm.

Waffles warm in her palm, sweet against the monster's growl.

Monster's growl fades, a girl with shaved head hums victory in the void.Hawkins Fracture

In Hawkins, the Christmas lights flicker

not with holiday cheer but Morse code

from the other side, where shadows stretch

like Demogorgon limbs, petal-mouthed,

hungry for the taste of boyhood bikes

racing through cornfields under a sky

cracked open like an egg, yolk spilling

ash and spores that whisper Will's name.

The arcade hums Pac-Man ghosts, but real ones

lurk in the pool's chlorine haze, Max's skateboard

wheels grinding against Vecna's clockwork curse—

time folding back on itself, 1983's synth wave

crashing into 1986's bloodied high school halls.

Friendship, that makeshift slingshot,

hurls rocks at the Mind Flayer's swarm,

Dustin's cap askew, Lucas's wrist rocket steady,

Mike's heart a walkie-talkie static with "friends don't lie."

Yet the fracture widens, nostalgia's vine creeping

through the TV screen, pulling us under too—

where monsters are just mirrors of the unseen,

the bullied, the broken, blooming in the dark.

Party of the Abyss
The party gathers in the basement, dice rolling like fate's knuckles—Dungeons & Dragons maps unfurling prophecies no one believed until the gate tore wide. Eleven, telekinetic tether; Will, the sensitive conduit to chill winds; Mike, earnest knight with a BMX steed; Dustin, curly-haired sage spouting science amid the supernatural; Lucas, steadfast scout; Max, red-haired rebel skating into the fray. Together, they invert the world: upside down becomes right side up through sleepovers spiked with Eggos and empathy.Repeat the mantra: friends don't lie, but secrets swarm like demodogs in the tunnels below. Hawkins' facade crumbles—mall rats to mall ruins, Russian spies in Starcourt's neon glow. Yet triumph pulses in their pulse: a mixtape of Madonna and Metallica, saving each other from the abyss one high-five at a time. The series, a cultural Demogorgon itself, devours eras, spits out nostalgia laced with horror—five seasons of sacrifice, where kids conquer kings, and the ordinary flips to epic.In this echo chamber of 1980s synth and slime, they remind us: monsters hide in minds, but bonds bridge the breach.