Red Popcorn Strings and Gumball Rings

By Nell Iris

Young couple Ellis and Casey’s Christmas is set to be a lean one. Struggling financially, they’re only able to manage the most basic needs for their holiday celebration. They can’t afford luxuries like a turkey. Or decorations. Or presents. Between the recent death of Casey’s beloved momma, and Ellis’ estrangement from his family, all they have is each other.

When Ellis finds the saddest looking Christmas tree south of the Mason-Dixon line thrown outside his workplace and brings it home to Casey, things look up. Because what more do you need to have a Merry Christmas than enthusiasm, ingenuity, and someone to love?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Dec 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781646561681

Nell Iris

Nell is a forty-something bisexual Swedish woman, married to the love of her life, and a proud mama of a grown daughter. She left the Scandinavian cold and darkness for warmer and sunnier Malaysia a few years ago, and now spends her days writing, surfing the Internet, enjoying the heat, and eating good food. One day she decided to chase her lifelong dream of being a writer, sat down in front of her laptop, and wrote a story about two men falling in love. Nell writes gay romance, prefers sweet over angst, and wants to write diverse and different characters.

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Reviews for Red Popcorn Strings and Gumball Rings

[schatzi_5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a short story done right! First off, it definitely helped that Ellis and Casey were already an established couple, so we didn't have to go through the often-tedious-in-short-stories first meeting and falling in instalove. Nope, this couple is already serious in love with one another, even though they're dirt poor and struggling to eke out an existence in a rather backwards, socially speaking, area. Having come from an area such as this one, it felt completely authentic to me how the setting was portrayed - the family who doesn't want to acknowledge that a child is gay and has pretty much cut him out of their lives, the "we know you're gay but please don't talk about it" coworkers, and the hardscrabble life that often comes from living in such an area, whether you're gay or not. But even if they had just met, I feel like the author would have done a great job at making their romance feel developed even though the story is short. There's just something about this story that spoke to my heart. It didn't feel fake or rushed at all to me, and in short stories, that is rare for me.The only problem I really had with this story was the sex scene. Dry anal anything never sounds like a good idea to me, unless you're into serious pain, I guess. I'll give a hard pass to reading about it, too.