/ "and i have to speculate that god himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay" / Michelle "Mickey" Hopper has a lot of problems. An alcoholic father ignoring the loss of his youngest daughter, her sister, Sarah. A manipulative boyfriend who keeps convincing her to come back to him. A drug addiction she's keeping from nearly everyone in her life. And now, her friend Barb is missing and she's being drawn into a world of vanished children and mysterious monsters. The one constant in her life is her best friend. To everyone else, he's King Steve "the Hair" Harrington, the cold and popular playboy. But to Mickey, he is the shoulder she can always cry on, the ear always willing to listen, and the skip in her step always there to make her try new things. But can they ignore their growing feelings? Could they ever be more than friends? *i'm so sorry. i'm so bad at writing synopsises, but i swear i actually like this fic lol *tw: drug abuse, suicidal thoughts, toxic relationship, panic attacks and all around anxiety, etc (extreme tws will be marked on specific chapters) named after "such great heights" by the postal service (a great song that you should listen to asap if you haven't already) rights for major plotlines and characters go to stranger things, netflix, and the duffer brothers, however mickey and brad and their plotlines belong to me. please do not steal them as i worked very hard to create them takes places: season 1 - present #2 in Hopper [05/26/2022] #2 in jimhopper [01/09/2025] note: since learning of the zionism rooted in stranger things cast and crew, i wanted to state that i will continue to love this show for what it is and continue to write this story and these characters which i have come to love however i am in favor of a free palestine so please remember to support the cause all that you can and boycott zionist insitutions

This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future. Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists. Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats. With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists. To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . . "Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series". [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T