Not the normal - what is your best story? - thread

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Trading Cards

Category:
Transgender

Year published: 5/25/2025

Words: Six pages and a little, so 21k?

Basic premise: Young woman uses magical trading cards, and a lot of sex, to rescue a friends husband.

Themes:
A little transgender, some lesbian, some exhibitionism, some group, some anal some bondage and some noncon.
Underlying meaning? Nope, just a mostly playful romp through a whole lot of sexual activity. It is meant to be a stroker.

Motivation:

Ok, so I’m doing the survivor challenge and I’m trying to write for every category. There are also specific story prompts we can use for bonuses, and I wanted to try to use “magical artifact”. We get extra points for writing for contests, so this story was for the Geek Day contest. The geekiest thing I can think of is Magic The Gathering, which is a trading card game. How do I make that sexy? Make the images on the cards of the people playing. Ok, so? Once you collect a set of a persons cards you get to set a sexual fantasy with them. That’s good, but not very much sex yet. Ok, what about if you get packs of cards every time you give someone else an orgasm? That would be Lots of Sex!!(tm)!

When I started the story I needed a story for the Transgender category, and I thought magical gender swapping would fit well.

Why is it your best story:

This is not my best story by any of the criteria on Literotica:

Ratings: 4.07 which is 33rd/37, only my non-sex stories have scored lower.
Views: 4.7k, 14/37
Favorites: 5, 18/37
Comments: 4, but one was my own, so tied for 13/37
But I think it is my best story because I actually “worked” pretty hard on it. Several of my other stories were more or less written in one sitting and published after just a read-through or two. This one I wrote and then re-wrote a couple of times. When I realized I needed something in a scene I went back and mentioned something about it earlier in the story. I did math to roughly figure out the number of cards necessary to collect a set, and how many orgasms would be necessary to get those cards.

I even made up a history of the game that is referenced in the story. (I didn’t actually write a history down, it’s just included in the story.)

I think this may have been the first story I had others proofread before publishing, so it was extra polished. (By my standards, anyway.)

Anything else we should know about it:

I wonder if it would have been better as chapters published in different categories. The organizer of the event didn’t want chapters, though, so I published it as one story.
 
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<strong> Category: </strong>Transgender



<strong> Year published: </strong>5/25/2025



<strong> Words: </strong> Six pages and a little, so 21k?



<strong> Basic premise: </strong> Young woman uses magical trading cards, and a lot of sex, to rescue a friends husband.



<strong> Themes: </strong>

A little transgender, some lesbian, some exhibitionism, some group, some anal some bondage and some noncon.

Underlying meaning? Nope, just a mostly playful romp through a whole lot of sexual activity. It is meant to be a striker.



<strong> Motivation: </strong>

Ok, so I’m doing the survivor challenge and I’m trying to write for every category. There are also specific story prompts we can use for bonuses, and I wanted to try to use “magical artifact”. We get extra points for writing for contests, so this story was for the Geek Day contest. The geekiest thing I can think of is Magic The Gathering, which is a trading card game. How do I make that sexy? Make the images on the cards of the people playing. Ok, so? Once you collect a set of a persons cards you get to set a sexual fantasy with them. That’s good, but not very much sex yet. Ok, what about if you get packs of cards every time you give someone else an orgasm? That would be Lots of Sex!!(tm)!

When I started the story I needed a story for the Transgender category, and I thought magical gender swapping would fit well.



<strong> Why is it your best story: </strong>

This is not my best story by any of the criteria on Literotica:

Ratings: 4.07 which is 33rd/37, only non-sex stories have scored lower.

Views: 4.7k, 14/37

Favorites: 5, 18/37

Comments: 4, but once was my own, so tied for 13/37



But I think it is my best story because I actually “worked” pretty hard on it. Several of my other stories were more or less written in one sitting and published after just a read-through or two. This one I wrote and then re-wrote a couple of times. When I realized I needed something in a scene I went back and mentioned something about it earlier in the story. I did math to roughly figure out the number of cards necessary to collect a set, and how many orgasms would be necessary to get those cards.

I even made up a history of the game that is referenced in the story. (I didn’t actually write a history down, it’s just included in the story.)

I think this may have been the first story I had others proofread before publishing, so it was extra polished. (By my standards, anyway.)



<strong> Anything else we should know about it: </strong>

I wonder if it would have been better as chapters published in different categories. The organizer of the event didn’t want chapters, though, so I published it as one story.
Markup doesn’t work here, hun 😊
 
Title: Another Man's Trophy Wife.

Category: Loving Wives

Year published:
2024

Words:
~3100

Basic premise:
Man's POV on a tryst....

Themes: Why people do the things they do.... Has some philosophical undertones about suffering and power and injustice and so on, but on the subtle side, not anything that readers have to slow down for unless they want to.

Motivation: I don't remember lol.... Actually I just had the idea for this story one day and tossed it off almost as fast as I could type it. For some reason it just turned out really well. I do enjoy the challenge of the Loving Wives audience....

Why is it your best story: I'm proud of the characterization in the story, even though it's so short, I feel like readers can understand the characters so well. The dialogue and narration have some snappy bits. It's almost too realistic and the narration sounds so much like a man reflecting on something that actually happened.

Anything else we should know about it: No! I just hope people enjoy it.
 
Title: Tears of Salt - Thanks for reminding me, @EmilyMiller

Category: Lesbian Sex (where else, right? I wish they'd rename this category)

Year published: 2024

Words: 48k or so

Basic premise: A young village healer saves the life of a strange young woman, and a romance is kindled.

Themes: Freedom and sacrifice

Motivation: I dreamed of one of the characters, and I've always had a personal fascination for Celtic and European mythology concerning the Fae. I wanted to write a fantasy story- not about faeries, nor the night realm, nor Titania or anything like her - but of something mundane and adjacent.

So I imagined Salt with her darkness and her crown of stars. Then I imagined Maya with her frown and her tired grey sadness and all her flaws, and I put them together - and the story is what happened.

Why is it your best story: I've got a couple of "fantasy" stories on my shelf, and the world of "Tears of Salt" feels like the most complete. I took the Dark Forest hypothesis and turned it into something specific to the Nightside of Salt's home world / universe. I wound in some of the mythos of Elm trees from european mythology, turning them into the gate posts of the multiverse. And I created an antagonist who is never visible but throws her shadow over most of the story. The romance feels natural, even now when I read it again a year later, the climax is my best bar perhaps that in Damselfly, and it's a world I may return to some later time.

Anything else we should know about it: It's a more mature story than many of my previous ones; I think, probably, because it was written by an older and more tired me. The happy ending is not without loss; death is a constant companion in the story. Even with the magic and the adjacent worlds, you realise that Salt and Maya will grow old under the shade of Salt's Rowan tree, and that one day one of them will not wake - and shortly thereafter, neither will the other. Perhaps they'll be tended by little Tam Rivers in the fullness of time. This is one of the few of my stories that still makes my heart ache long after I've finished it.
 
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Category: Lesbian Sex (where else, right? I wish they'd rename this category)

Year published: 2024

Words: 48k or so

Basic premise: A young village healer saves the life of a strange young woman, and a romance is kindled.

Themes: Freedom and sacrifice

Motivation: I dreamed of one of the characters, and I've always had a personal fascination for Celtic and European mythology concerning the Fae. I wanted to write a fantasy story- not about faeries, nor the night realm, nor Titania or anything like her - but of something mundane and adjacent.

So I imagined Salt with her darkness and her crown of stars. Then I imagined Maya with her frown and her tired grey sadness and all her flaws, and I put them together - and the story is what happened.

Why is it your best story: I've got a couple of "fantasy" stories on my shelf, and the world of "Tears of Salt" feels like the most complete. I took the Dark Forest hypothesis and turned it into something specific to the Nightside of Salt's home world / universe. I wound in some of the mythos of Elm trees from european mythology, turning them into the gate posts of the multiverse. And I created an antagonist who is never visible but throws her shadow over most of the story. The romance feels natural, even now when I read it again a year later, the climax is my best bar perhaps that in Damselfly, and it's a world I may return to some later time.

Anything else we should know about it: It's a more mature story than many of my previous ones; I think, probably, because it was written by an older and more tired me. The happy ending is not without loss; death is a constant companion in the story. Even with the magic and the adjacent worlds, you realise that Salt and Maya will grow old under the shade of Salt's Rowan tree, and that one day one of them will not wake - and shortly thereafter, neither will the other. Perhaps they'll be tended by little Tam Rivers in the fullness of time. This is one of the few of my stories that still makes my heart ache long after I've finished it.
And @onehitwanda’s lovely story is: Tears of Salt
 
Category: Lesbian Sex (where else, right? I wish they'd rename this category)

Year published: 2024

Words: 48k or so

Basic premise: A young village healer saves the life of a strange young woman, and a romance is kindled.

Themes: Freedom and sacrifice

Motivation: I dreamed of one of the characters, and I've always had a personal fascination for Celtic and European mythology concerning the Fae. I wanted to write a fantasy story- not about faeries, nor the night realm, nor Titania or anything like her - but of something mundane and adjacent.

So I imagined Salt with her darkness and her crown of stars. Then I imagined Maya with her frown and her tired grey sadness and all her flaws, and I put them together - and the story is what happened.

Why is it your best story: I've got a couple of "fantasy" stories on my shelf, and the world of "Tears of Salt" feels like the most complete. I took the Dark Forest hypothesis and turned it into something specific to the Nightside of Salt's home world / universe. I wound in some of the mythos of Elm trees from european mythology, turning them into the gate posts of the multiverse. And I created an antagonist who is never visible but throws her shadow over most of the story. The romance feels natural, even now when I read it again a year later, the climax is my best bar perhaps that in Damselfly, and it's a world I may return to some later time.

Anything else we should know about it: It's a more mature story than many of my previous ones; I think, probably, because it was written by an older and more tired me. The happy ending is not without loss; death is a constant companion in the story. Even with the magic and the adjacent worlds, you realise that Salt and Maya will grow old under the shade of Salt's Rowan tree, and that one day one of them will not wake - and shortly thereafter, neither will the other. Perhaps they'll be tended by little Tam Rivers in the fullness of time. This is one of the few of my stories that still makes my heart ache long after I've finished it.

What else should we know about it?

Maybe the title?
 
I'm going to go for Hiking with Jillian

Category: Mature

Year published:
2024

Words:
16.1k

Basic premise:
older lady, younger man, 50 year age gap

Themes: Romance mostly, at least one commenter suggested I should have posted it in that category instead

Motivation: I started writing again in late 2023 and committed to literotica more than ever before (still not as much as I wish). Coming up with ideas has never been a problem for me, especially one off ideas, but the problem is getting them written out before something new takes over my limited brainpower. I really just wanted to do a nice age gap romance. I'll probably write a lot more of my weirder stuff in the future, but I hope I can always hold some space for a nice romance, whatever the pairing

Why is it your best story: I just think it's cute, and the first two people who commented on it both used the word exquistite, which was a bit of a turn on to be honest

Anything else we should know about it: I had to do some birdwatching research while writing. I also included Jillian's granddaughter in the story and wrote about how she was the most perfect and heavenly looking woman of all time and the plan was always to go back and write a spin off in which she has her own may/december love affair. I still haven't forgotten about you Rosie!
 
I'm going to go for Hiking with Jillian

Category: Mature

Year published: 2024

Words: 16.1k

Basic premise: older lady, younger man, 50 year age gap

Themes: Romance mostly, at least one commenter suggested I should have posted it in that category instead

Motivation: I started writing again in late 2023 and committed to literotica more than ever before (still not as much as I wish). Coming up with ideas has never been a problem for me, especially one off ideas, but the problem is getting them written out before something new takes over my limited brainpower. I really just wanted to do a nice age gap romance. I'll probably write a lot more of my weirder stuff in the future, but I hope I can always hold some space for a nice romance, whatever the pairing

Why is it your best story: I just think it's cute, and the first two people who commented on it both used the word exquistite, which was a bit of a turn on to be honest

Anything else we should know about it: I had to do some birdwatching research while writing. I also included Jillian's granddaughter in the story and wrote about how she was the most perfect and heavenly looking woman of all time and the plan was always to go back and write a spin off in which she has her own may/december love affair. I still haven't forgotten about you Rosie!
Thanks for getting us back on track 😊
 
I've only got 2 atm so here's the best one.

https://www.literotica.com/s/first-time-in-the-gym-shower

Category: Gay Male

Year published:
2025

Words:
1.7k

Basic premise:
Guy has his first gay experience in his college's gym shower area

Themes: It's just straight up smut.

Motivation: I just wanted to write and read some male on male action

Why is it your best story: My only other story atm is straight smut.

Anything else we should know about it: Apparently it went over better than my other story and made me feel I should write more like it. I have started a few stories (I have a bad habit starting but trouble finishing writing)
 
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