Credit: RACHELLE ABELLAR

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RACHELLE ABELLAR

From the outside, Wayward Coffeehouse looks like your standard cafe: a few tables, a smattering of chairs. After entering, you come to a few realizations. Mostly that it’s bigger on the inside.

I didn’t fully understand why so many people had told me that I would love Wayward until I pushed open the door. The inner geek in me—something that’s always there but lies dormant unless stimulated by memorabilia or a tasteful graphic tee—flared to life.

Nathalie Graham covers anything she finds fun, weird, or interesting. You can find a lot of that in her column, Play Date. Her work has also appeared around town in The Seattle Times, GeekWire, and the...