Which three of your stories do you consider your best?

[oggbashan]

Not necessarily the highest-rated, but the three that you consider came closest to your intentions when you started to write.

I have a lot to chose from but I am happiest with these three. None are perfect but I'm pleased I wrote them:


https://www.literotica.com/s/english-lane

https://www.literotica.com/s/christmas-truce

And a very old one from 2003 as part of that year's NaNoWriMo:

https://www.literotica.com/s/flawed-red-silk-ch-10


Which three are you best pleased with?

 

[MillieDynamite]

#3 In the Arms of the Succubus https://literotica.com/s/in-the-arms-of-the-succubus-1

#2 Written in Blood https://literotica.com/s/written-in-blood

#1 The Case of the Rich Man's Wife From the files of Theodora Drummond — Private Investigator

 

[SimonDoom]

This is a tough one, and I'll probably change my mind after I pick three. But here goes:

In The Hallway. https://literotica.com/s/in-the-hallway-1. The second story I ever published, and probably the one I am most satisfied with as a depiction of two people in a playful, erotic encounter. A dominance/submission encounter, based on what I thought was a clever, if contrived, idea that was fun to write about.

Nude Day Running Adventure. https://literotica.com/s/nude-day-running-adventure. My oldest story, in the sense that I started writing it years before I published anything at Literotica, and then lost the whole thing in a hard drive crash, and then I restarted it from scratch and published it last summer. Of my exhibitionist stories, it's probably my favorite so far.

Late Night On The Loveseat With Mom. https://literotica.com/s/late-night-on-the-loveseat-with-mom. A silly story, and not very original, but I had to pick at least one mom-son incest story, and this is by far my most popular. I started and finished it in one week, which is very rare for me. Even though it's light and derivative, I was very pleased with how I pulled this one off.

 

[windar]

Mine aren't on here. Is it permitted to mention them?

 

[ElectricBlue]

https://literotica.com/s/songs-of-seduction-water
Written quickly, this story is probably my most evocative piece. It's a study of gender, what it means, and includes some very understated but effective alternate world building, all in 7300 words.

https://literotica.com/s/rope-and-veil
This is where I came of age as an erotica writer, taking a risk to write about a disability about which I had no personal knowledge. It and its two follow-on chapters, were very well received by the disabled community, for giving them an erotic voice. It's the story where I coined the notion of writing erotica with a social responsibility.

https://literotica.com/s/the-floating-world-1
A favourite fantasy piece that starts with three portraits of my morning baristas, which then moves off into a dance of seduction. It's the story that inspired my avatar.

The last two are my most commented on stories, and why I will never turn anonymous comments off.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Mine aren't on here. Is it permitted to mention them?

You can mention them, but not link them.

 

[YDB95]

They're linked on my sig-line.
Beware the Quiet One was probably my all time best in terms of getting exactly what I imagined down on paper. Even the bad feedback it got (and there wasn't much of that) made it clear I hit the nail on the head as far as making the point I wanted to make. And of course I fell madly in love with my heroine, always a good sign.

Grand Island - I even mentioned when I posted it that I didn't expect it to do very well in the competition (Winter 2013), so predictably enough it took second place and remains my biggest Lit Hit. I've had people tell me they read it every Christmas. I guess that's separate from what I think is great about it, but it's hard to argue with feedback like that! In any event, I put a lot of research into it (i.e. mentioning there hadn't been much snow in Chicago in December 1906 - there really wasn't!), something I usually don't do, and spent quite a bit of time polishing it before I submitted it. (Not quite enough, though - there are a couple of things in there I wish I could change.) It was a labor of love, and I can honestly say I loved it even back when I thought it would fare poorly in the contest. (That was the last time I made any such predictions!)

Chemistry of Love - Inspired by my best friend in high school, who was (back then) a jerk like Bill. I didn't actually know him in college, as we lost touch before freshman year was over. I was a lot like Jay - quiet, shy, and fairly hopeless at the hard sciences, and never one to want a woman to think I was only after her for one thing (whether that one thing was good grades or sex or something else entirely), so all the twists and turns in the story came fairly naturally to me. It was all too easy to imagine what my friend and I would have done in the various situations. It also gave me the opportunity to give a shout-out to a long ago admirer: the morning after I graduated from high school back in the dark ages, at the end of the all-night grad party, a girl from my English class hugged me goodbye and said she'd loved hearing my stories all year. That meant the world to me, from that day to this. So I named Kathy's favorite romance novelist after her. I confess I cribbed the very last line from a novel I read in high school (it was only the last line of a chapter, not the whole book, though), but hey, it fit perfectly.

 

[shakna]

http://literotica.com/s/toofy
A twisting tale about the ascent of a catgirl slave from nothing, to the empress, of a fantasy world. Which spawned a few other spinoffs and a sequel.

http://literotica.com/s/care-package
A story of incestuous romance, the internal conflicts, and overcoming disability, all wrapped up in one.

https://literotica.com/s/cookies-n-cream
Sexual exploration, a bit of coming of age, and learning how to be free of the past. Wrapped inside a lesbian and incestuous romance.

 

[lovecraft68]

Siblings with Benefits Chapter One. Brother sister taboo. An admitted grammatical nightmare(one of the first things I ever wrote) and I'd lose first person if I were to rewrite it, but the depressing opening and then the holy shit nothing else like it here, sex so violent its close to a fight hit readers hard and shocked the hell out of them. It was the first taboo story I published here(my third piece overall) and although never popular due to the dark content, it was polarizing and earned me early notoriety as a zero fucks given writer.

https://literotica.com/s/siblings-with-benefits-ch-01

Spellbound-Mother son-a very long story-it was a contest entry-that blends Taboo with a homage to old fashioned haunted house movies/novels with all the elements...house with a violent past, cursed object, neighbor and who's families troubled past created the current situation.

https://literotica.com/s/spellbound-12

Home is Where The Heart is (mature romance) another early story that leaves a lot to be desired for grammar and I did too much show v tell, but it was my first attempt at a romance, but of course because its me starts off on a depressing note, but ends well.

https://literotica.com/s/home-is-where-the-heart-is-1

Spellbound makes the cut because we're talking here, but I'd replace it with an e-book "The Devil In Mom" another taboo/horror homage, but this to the Exorcist with a possession angle-although this demon has a sense of humor, but really delves into the serious issue of sexual repression through religious upbringing and the guilt it causes and its lasting effect on people. Its sexy, its funny in places, but its a lot deeper than most smut stories go.

 

[SimonDoom]

Ogg, this is a great thread idea. I've often wondered, among the contributors here, which of the stories of theirs they would recommend. I still have a lot of reading to do.

 

[gunhilltrain]

You can mention them, but not link them.

Yeah, I have some characters that appear on three different sites - many of those are not dupe stories. I also have a couple of series here that I like but that's not really answering the question. Of the stand-alone stories, I guess I might think of these:

Woodstock 1975 In that year, a New York-based publication called The Zone (which has resemblances to the Village Voice, Screw, and other magazines) attempts a hippie-type porn shoot in Sullivan County, New York (not at the same location as the original). Except they only have forty people to work with, not hundreds of thousands.

Penitentiary Planet All right, it was inspired by an old Twilight Zone episode. In 2114 a convict doing solitary on a distant planet is given a female android as a companion. Alicia, the android (same name as the original in 1959) has a very quirky and witty personality. There is also some back story about the convict Corey and the bureaucratic prison system that holds him (Penn DOC, or the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections - yeah, they are leasing the entire planet from the U.S. government). It turns out that there are more than a hundred other convicts on the planet, and they are all getting androids under the AC-CAP scheme (Android Companionate / Conjugal Assistance Program).

Uncle Hank's Drive-In Adventure Told in a long flashback to Hank's nephew at a bar in the 1970s, it's about a very messed-up drive-in encounter in 1949. The movie being shown is Naked City - no, it's a detective story. I tried to get all the details correct about New York in that period and also a bit about Hank's later life. (He later served on the USS Wisconsin during the Korean War.)

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Three, you say?

https://literotica.com/s/gas-station-guy Gas Station Guy - gay virgin mistakes 'crap lesbian' for a man; sexual exploration and discussion of feminism, face and class ensue. I really like it, but it doesn't fit Lit so well - Laurel put it in Fetish, I guess because a strap-on features but no pegging.
Probably shouldn't mention the F-word - recent voters have knocked 0.3 off its rating...

https://literotica.com/s/wheelchair-bound
Wheelchair Bound? - Women find chronic illness interferes with kinky sex.
People responded with lots of comments and seemed to enjoy the snark about accessibility services and management most of all.

Difficult to pick third - I'll go for https://literotica.com/s/turkish-delight-11 Turkish Delight, a simple tale of a couple lots of gay sex on holiday.
"Two men fuck other men in Istanbul; Turkish baths get steamy."

I aimed for a travelogue with sex and think it worked. The characters were ones I'd developed over a 100k word series - that has some very good bits in but other parts where it's a bit obvious I wrote it while on rather good drugs.

All these are 6 pages, despite at least 2 aiming to be short and sweet.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Oh, jeez...

I guess the Alexaverse is my most expansive, by a long shot, and I love writing in it and about it.

Time Rider is my funniest story, IMHO, and I get to flex my comedy muscles as well and drown in history. I love the TR characters, Mark, Becky, and Nanu.

The Great Khan is serious, a historical war drama, and I get to write huge battles and indulge in brutality, with ribbons of blood worthy of the anime Ninja Scroll.

I'm proud of My Naughty Neighbour as a romance. It's very heartfelt.

I'm most invested in the Alexaverse.

 

[beachbum1958]

I really had to dig deep for this one, but i also got the most pleasure out of writing the whole series, it just seemed to happen organically and unreel as I wrote it. https://classic.literotica.com/s/down-at-the-twist-and-shout-ch-01

This was such fun to write, and the research really came from my own reading on the subject of British folklore and beliefs
https://classic.literotica.com/s/hallowmas-wicca-sister

This one was my attempt at a pure, full-on fantasy story. Whether or not it works is immaterial, I enjoyed, probably for the first time, the thrill of completely letting myself go and writing something so not based or grounded in reality
https://classic.literotica.com/s/lysettes-gift

 

[Bramblethorn]

"Best" and "closest to my intentions when I started to write" are two very different questions for me. I'll take the former.

Loss Function. I was not very happy with this one when I published it, but I've come around to it on the strength of feedback from trusted readers.

It's a hard-mode story: complex premise, same-sex relationship with gloomy themes in Romance. I wanted to do a lot of things with it, and I probably managed about three-quarters of what I set out to do. So I was focussing on the 25% that I missed, while the readers were appreciating the 75% that I did.

In previous romance stories I've posted here, the love interests have been pretty easy to like. In this one I set out to write a more complex dynamic, with the complexity of loving somebody who's a package deal of good and bad.

Anjali's Red Scarf. This is a long story and got seriously derailed in the middle, with a year's gap before I was able to pick it up again. Again, it's not perfect, but despite being fiction it's the most personal thing I've written; if you want to know me, this is the one to read.

The Floggings Will Continue.... For this one I challenged myself to take a far-fetched plot (corporate team-building day turns into wild orgy) and make it believable. I feel like I did a decent job of that.

Hmm, these happen to be my three most recent. I hope that means I'm getting better.

 

[KeithD]

Although, if I gave it thought, I’d probably come up with three different ones, the three that jump to mind, all sr71plt stories, are:

The Aviators (https://www.literotica.com/s/the-aviators)

Puttin’ on the Ritz (https://www.literotica.com/s/puttin-on-the-ritz)

Honey Hollow Swimming Hole (https://www.literotica.com/s/honey-hollow-swimming-hole)

 

[NotWise]

The first two are easy. The third is a coin flip.

3. My Sister's Wedding (for the I/T readers)
2. Love is Enough (long ghost story)
1. The Third Ring (short, epic tragedy)

 

[RetroFan]

April Leads Julie Astray - Set in North Carolina in 1963, two girls who endured difficult childhood experiences develop feelings for each other at age 18.

Learning to Love Louise - Set in Adelaide Australia, a simple enough romance premise, a never married man Paul aged 41 has feelings for divorced single mother Louise, but can't seem to work up the courage to ask her out. However not all is what it seems in Paul's life ...

The Mystery of Melissa - As a boy in the early 1990s growing up in Brisbane Australia Nathan develops a celebrity crush on Melissa, who is a presenter on a children's television block on Saturday mornings, and he is most upset when Melissa leaves the show and vanishes into obscurity. However many years later the now 35-year-old Nathan is a high school teacher and gets a big surprise when having a parent teacher conference with a 44-year-old MILF about her problem son ....

 

[MelissaBaby]

I will let others decide which of my stories are "best" and name my favorites. Skipping over my long series and choosing from stories that can stand on their own:

The Adventures of Ranger Ramona

When I was a little girl I wrote stories about a girl who became a forest ranger. Boy, did she grow up...

The Gold Dollar Girls

I wanted to write a story that gave a realistic depiction of being a sex worker, while managing to be sexy and funny. I think I nailed it.

Oyster River

Maybe just because it's my newest...but a lesbian romance was something I wanted to write for a long time, and I am pretty pleased with it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

https://literotica.com/s/wheelchair-bound
Wheelchair Bound? - Women find chronic illness interferes with kinky sex.
People responded with lots of comments and seemed to enjoy the snark about accessibility services and management most of all.

I'll wander off and read this, since my Rope and Veil (linked above) takes a similar theme, and attracted a decent number of very favourable (and some very moving and humbling - is that even a word?) comments.

 

[yowser]

An Infernal Folio was perhaps the most challenging (thank you Geek Pride for impetus) with a wheelbarrow's worth of arcane antiquarian trivia dumped in.

House of Doors, my first (and likely last) attempt in Borgesian narrative, part Twilight Zone in tone and effect.

Suzanne's Supreme Night of Poker attempted to upend the 'poker night wife' trope, and gained me a lifetime's worth of LW readership commentary. Despite, or perhaps because of that, it is my only tale with over 100k views.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oooooooh, good question. I'd say these three came the closest to my intentions....

1. "Tales from Old Shanghai - Never Ending Love"

2. "Huginn's Yule"

3. "And the Snow Fell"

 

[Trionyx]

Eddie’s Christmas Gift - About a paralyzed patient and his nurse.
https://www.literotica.com/s/eddies-christmas-gift

Santa’s Elf - Features a 4 week slow burning romance
https://www.literotica.com/s/santas-elf-1

Until Death Does Us Part? - Spouses of demented patients build a new life together
https://www.literotica.com/s/until-death-does-us-part

It is interesting that 2 of the stories I like the most are not among my highest vote results.

 

[HectorBidon]

Thanks for asking. My stories don't try to do much more than convey a particular feeling. These two, I think, get the job done.

The Woman She'd Already Become. What might have been.

Compatible Bedfellows. What we've got right now.

 

[Djmac1031]

Not necessarily the highest-rated, but the three that you consider came closest to your intentions when you started to write.

I have a lot to chose from but I am happiest with these three. None are perfect but I'm pleased I wrote them:


https://www.literotica.com/s/english-lane

https://www.literotica.com/s/christmas-truce

And a very old one from 2003 as part of that year's NaNoWriMo:

https://www.literotica.com/s/flawed-red-silk-ch-10


Which three are you best pleased with?