The Fable of the Writer and the Follower

And the subscriber

And the subscriber

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Once upon a time, there lived a stray writer in a small town.

One day, the writer got a juicy follower from his Medium account. All excited, he picked it up and looked for a secluded place to enjoy it at ease.

He ran to a nearby riverside to enjoy the follower all by himself. As he was chewing on the follower, he happened to look down into the river. The writer was quite surprised as he saw his own reflection in the river.

He mistook it for another writer with a juicy subscriber in its mouth.

The greedy writer wanted to snatch that subscriber also. So, he opened his mouth to shout at his own reflection, hoping to scare the other writer away so that he could get the subscriber too. But, alas, the follower fell down from his mouth into the river with a splash. The writer lost his follower because he wanted a subscriber, and had to slink away unknown and unread.

Moral of the writer and the follower story

Just write another story.

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