On the screen, a future version of Mike Wheeler, older, with tired eyes and a beard, sat in a dimly lit bunker. Behind him, a clock was melting into a grandfather clock shape—not from heat, but from something wrong .
Dustin Henderson found it tucked behind a loose brick in the old Starcourt Mall loading dock, days after the "mall fire" that everyone pretended was just a faulty wiring incident. The tape wasn't dusty. It was cold. Colder than the July air should allow. Stranger.Things.S03.COMPLETE.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DD...
The TV went black. Then the lights in the mall flickered back on—except they weren't fluorescents anymore. They were a deep, pulsing red. On the screen, a future version of Mike