Squealed

Don’t ever take off the ring. Cause if you do, the spell of 'us' will be broken.

This was one of the first stories I ever published on Medium, back in 2021.

In the first weeks it earned me a few pennies. Maybe a couple of quid. I can’t remember. But about three months after I’d published it, something weird happened. The views started going crazy. And the strange thing was the story wasn’t getting many claps or comments. This many in total:

However, it earned me this many views and this much money…

I certainly squealed when I saw :-D

That taught me about the highly sought after Medium viral! And the fact, often people will pop in and read and go. It’s usually only“writers” who leave comments and clap as they know the system.

Readers just wanna read!

As I am taking most of my older/longer/best fiction down from Medium, here is Squealed for you to read today. It’s a sharply written piece. Which was very much my style of writing then. And, as is common with me, written from the male POV. This time because I actually wrote it for a male reader who was in the early throes of love with his woman and was talking about rings.

Content Warning: It’s very slightly erotically transgressive. However, there is a moral attached - love built on trust is stronger than love built with control.

Enough of my ramble!

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