On This Side of the Lights
“They can still be wishes, too,” Mike says. “Not messages from the wrong side anymore. Just… stuff we’re hoping for. From here.”
The Byers are living in the Wheeler basement, Karen is running Christmas like a military operation, and Mike Wheeler is rapidly losing the ability to pretend he doesn’t know what he’s wishing for.
Between dusty boxes, old drawings, and Christmas missions, Mike and Will stumble through one Hawkins winter learning how to stay on this side of the lights — and what happens when the wishes they never say out loud start slipping through anyway.















