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

[EmilyMiller]

So, if you want to publicize your amazing story, I’m going to make you work for it.

Please post a link and then answer these questions:

Category:

Year published:

Words:

Basic premise: don’t include spoilers unless you want to

Themes: is there any underlying meaning to the story (it’s a stroker is fine as a response)

Motivation: what were you trying to achieve with the story (e.g. to write a historical piece, to use a voice other than your own, to hold a mirror up to something) - I wanted people to jerk off is an acceptable answer

Why is it your best story: what differentiates it from your other work?

Anything else we should know about it:

—

If it’s not obvious, the idea is to talk about writing and not just advertize your work.

 

[Djmac1031]

Fine. You twisted my arm. But as always I'm hard pressed to choose my "Best" and so will feature a story I consider ONE of my best:

Pornville

Category: I posted it in Erotic Couplings, but in retrospect I really should have published it in Fantasy.

Year published: 2023

Words: 11.1K - about 3 1/2 LE pages

Basic premise: Amateur erotica writer Todd Everman wakes up one day trapped in the world of his own erotic stories. He, along with his wife Sharon, must live out each fantasy story in order to escape.

Themes: That there is a difference between our fantasies and reality and that some fantasies aren't always what they're built up to be.

Motivation: I wanted to A: write something different and B: write something that included as many LE / porn tropes as I could possibly squeeze into one coherent story.

Why is it your best story: what differentiates it from your other work? - It's both self-effacing while also an homage to all of us "erotica" writers. It gently pokes fun at a lot of the standard tropes but in a good natured way while still making those tropes fun and (hopefully) sexy to read.

Anything else we should know about it: The first sex scene scenario is based on an incest story Todd wrote called Mom's Backseat Boy. I later actually wrote that story under the pseudonym Todd Everman and published it here on LE. Despite it being a joke, its been my most popular and most viewed story ever.

Meanwhile, hardly anyone read Pornville

Oh and while it's an incest scene, I remind readers who find incest icky that its not REALLY Todd's mom he's having sex with, its a fantasy character he created in a story. The whole story doesn't revolve around incest, I promise.

https://www.literotica.com/s/pornville

 

[iwatchus]

The Important Days

Category: First Time

Year published: 2025 (I only started writing five months ago, so it is all this year)

Words: almost 28K

Basic premise: Ellie, a free spirited college senior takes on a very lonely high school senior (nerdy, math genius) who has no friends and lives with his mom (dad died in a car crash a few years earlier). He is obviously a virgin, but has typical 18 yr old male interests, even if he has no idea what he is doing. (Yes, it starts the day after his 18th birthday, conveniently)

Themes: Growth and going through transitions in life. Both he and his mom do during the story. Internal conflict, especially in Ellie.

Motivation: This was my first story I took the time to really edit, rather than just proofread. I wanted to see what I could do with my writing.

Why is it your best story: I have not had the patience to do the level of rewriting on anything else I did on this. But, much more importantly, I got the characters right (I think). I am passionate about all three primary characters and I like how the interactions came out. I know one of the regulars her on AH commented that she did found the interactions between Jason and his mom were stretching the bounds of credibility. But I really like their relationship. And no, it would not be suitable for T/I.

Anything else we should know about it: I was working on a different story for Nude Day and hating it. It would have been my worst story, no matter how much I worked on the writing. I woke up one morning and wrote a reasonable first draft before lunch the next day. I pushed myself through the editing quickly despite trying to do a good job because I thought you had to submit entries at the start of the contest.

 

[SimonDoom]

I had to think about this one, and if you asked me tomorrow I might change my mind. But I'll pick my story Teddy Bear.

Category: Toys and Masturbation. It's my only story in that category so far.

Year published: 2021. 4 years ago.

Words: About 7,700.

Basic premise: A 30ish single woman receives a large Teddy Bear as a gift on her doorstep. She doesn't know who gave it to her. The bear talks when she presses her hand to his chest. To her surprise, the bear tells her he wants to fuck her. And, well, you know.

Themes: I wanted to flesh out a zany premise. The woman who receives the bear has a boyfriend who is not meeting her needs, so I suppose one could read something into that. I guess you could say that the story underscores something I believe, which is that the erotic impulse runs very deep in us and cannot be fully explained. It is irrational. It just is. I enjoyed writing a story that had no explanation for what was happening erotically. Also, it played to my erotic attraction for the theme of the prim, usually reserved woman who has a desire she cannot resist.

Motivation: Just to fully realize a somewhat absurd premise. I guess you could say it was my erotic equivalent of Kafka's Metamorphosis. There is no attempt to explain what's going on. But the surrealism of it was very freeing as I wrote it.

Anything else we should know about it: I'm not sure it's my best story, but I think it's one of my better ones, and it's one of my best in the sense that I came closest to achieving what I wanted to achieve erotically and artistically, and it's one of the few stories I look back on and don't want to change in some significant way. It's one of three of my stories that got a "W." It is currently tied as the 49th most favorited Toys and Masturbation story at Literotica. It has a score of 4.66. I was pleased with how I ended this story.

 

[PennyThompson]

Full Moon Blues

Category: Non-Human

Year published: 2025

Words: 3,900 words, just a few paragraphs more than a single lit-page!

Basic premise: A werewolf gets the itch to make a booty call to her ex-boyfriend.

Themes: Nostalgia, lost love, regret, moving on

Motivation: @Brandnewbuddy made a thread in Story Ideas with the prompt, "Your ex is a werewolf." I was immediately taken with this idea as a really lovely metaphor for what it feels like when you miss your ex and know you weren't really right for each other, but occasionally have the urge to run back to them for a night. As I started writing it was clear it demanded a sad, bittersweet ending, which I had never done before... just about everything else I write has a happy ending!

Why is it your best story: I think it's one of my best stories because when I look at it again months later, it still feels raw and real despite being about explicit, sad werewolf sex

Anything else we should know about it: Essentially the entire story poured out of me in a single late evening, it kind of felt like it was writing itself and I was just moving my fingers on the keyboard. This was the first story I ever published that was written in first-person. It's not exactly auto-biographical, but the core feelings and some specific details are real. About a month after I published it, @Izanami9 approached me and asked if she could make a VA version of it, which ended up being just heartbreakingly lovely!

 

[Djmac1031]

Full Moon Blues

Category: Non-Human

Year published: 2025

Words: 3,900 words, just a few paragraphs more than a single lit-page!

Basic premise: A werewolf gets the itch to make a booty call to her ex-boyfriend.

Themes: Nostalgia, lost love, regret, moving on

Motivation: @Brandnewbuddy made a thread in Story Ideas with the prompt, "Your ex is a werewolf." I was immediately taken with this idea as a really lovely metaphor for what it feels like when you miss your ex and know you weren't really right for each other, but occasionally have the urge to run back to them for a night. As I started writing it was clear it demanded a sad, bittersweet ending, which I had never done before... just about everything else I write has a happy ending!

Why is it your best story: I think it's one of my best stories because when I look at it again months later, it still feels raw and real despite being about explicit, sad werewolf sex

Anything else we should know about it: Essentially the entire story poured out of me in a single late evening, it kind of felt like it was writing itself and I was just moving my fingers on the keyboard. This was the first story I ever published that was written in first-person. It's not exactly auto-biographical, but the core feelings and some specific details are real. About a month after I published it, @Izanami9 approached me and asked if she could make a VA version of it, which ended up being just heartbreakingly lovely!

I just read that one, and listened to the audio; really enjoyed both

 

[PennyThompson]

Also this is a very good sharing format, and I want to see what your answer is, Ms. Emily!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Also this is a very good sharing format, and I want to see what your answer is, Ms. Emily!

I’m far too modest to share. You know how shy and retiring I am…

 

[Djmac1031]

You know how shy and retiring I am…

i didn't realize you were of retirement age lol

 

[MillieDynamite]

Oh, this is a difficult thing for me to determine. I have several stories I love, but why, I'm not sure I can explain that.

 

[iwatchus]

Oh, this is a difficult thing for me to determine. I have several stories I love, but why, I'm not sure I can explain that.

Pick one arbitrarily. I just like seeing what people think is good, not necessarily the best. Or pick two and describe them both.

My choice was easy. I only have one good one.

 

[EmilyMiller]

If we get ten authors to post their best stories, I’ll think about posting one of mine (it’s always hard to chose).

 

[AG31]

So, if you want to publicize your amazing story, I’m going to make you work for it.

Twelve Maxbridge Street

Category: BDSM

Year published: 2/2021

Words: 12,000+

Basic premise: A well to do, hetero man signs up for a night as the sex object at a BDSM club.

Themes: Maybe. On the face of it, I'd say it was simple erotica (a stroker with a lot of effort put into the writing). But I found myself writing bits about real life love. It reflects the reality of my life where eroticism and actual relationships are pretty seperate.

Motivation: I wanted to put words to an intense fantasy I had over many days. I also wanted to encounter like minded people, but after 4 and a half years, I've decided I'm pretty sui generis.

Why is it your best story: It's much more complex than the others.

Anything else we should know about it: It was my first. All the others got slimmer and shorter.

 

[EmilyMiller]

i didn't realize you were of retirement age lol

I keep telling you I’m a sixty-something trucker from Vermont. But will you listen… ?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Written in Blood: A Dark Awakening
Category: Horror (somewhat erotic horror, Novels and Novellas)

Year published: 2021

Words: 32,132

Basic premise: Reimagined version of Dracula, first quarter of the story. (more are planned but I can't find the time to write them)

Themes: Dominance and submission, love and lust, good and evil (and those things we think are good that mightn't be)

Motivation: I wanted to examine both good and evil, as well as conventional views of morality, in relationship to our desires, including life after death, heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.

Why is it your best story: I don't know, I'm not capable of judging my own work.

Anything else we should know about it: Nothing special in the story. I flipped the sex of the count, the Harker character, and the brides are grooms. I also turned most of the myth (or what we accept as vampire mythos) on its ear.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Intervention Wife

Category: Loving Wives

Year published: 2021

Words: 18.5k

Basic premise: Hilarity ensues when a very religious couple move in next door to a single man.

Themes: Humor and hot sex?

Motivation: The challenge was to write a Loving Wives story that is funny. None of the angst or anger that dominates the category. It’s a farcical romp.

Why is it your best story: The humor differentiates it from my other stories. I think humor is difficult to write, and I’m proud the story got many complimentary comments. The 4.74 rating in LW ain’t too shabby either.

Anything else we should know about it: Some religious people took offense even though the story is obviously not serious. I didn’t make fun of religion, just the over-the-top characters in the story. But if you’re a sensitive fundamentalist, you might want to avoid this one.

 

[Djmac1031]

But if you’re a sensitive fundamentalist, you might want to avoid this one.

Of course, the question remains why any true religious fundamentalist would be visiting LE in the first place

 

[NuclearFairy]

The Moon's Daughter

Category: Fantasy

Year published: 2025

Words: 2300

Basic premise: The moon had a daughter with a priestess, and she goes out to do her mom's job.

Themes: Dancing naked in the moonlight with a wolfman. Not incest, although I'm afraid the name might've been a little misleading.

Motivation: I had a beautiful vision of a girl dancing naked in the moonlight in my mind and wanted to get it down.

Why is it your best story: I think it's the one that translated best from my mind to words. Although it's also one of my shortest stories, if not my actual shortest. I'm honestly not sure if it is my best, it's just the one that lines up best with what I saw when I wrote it.

Anything else we should know about it: Not that I can think of.

 

[Bamagan]

Category: Anal

Year published: 2025

Words: 11.6k

Basic premise: The protagonist, a somewhat insecure lesbian, manages to convince her old crush (the titular character) to have sex with her, after learning that the latter's fiancée has called off their engagement.

Themes: It's attempting to capture the bittersweet feelings of elation, sorrow, and awkwardness at having a wish fulfilled.

Motivation: Like most of my stories, I got an idea in my head that was distracting and it needed distillation.

Why is it your best story: I have no idea if it is or not. But it's probably my most accessible one, in terms of audiences, since lesbian anal is (arguably) the most mainstream thing I've published here.

Anything else we should know about it: It has romantic elements but not a classical 'happily ever after' ending, and fairly raw sex. It was on the advice of @StillStunned that I added the butt stuff and put it in Anal (this statement is actually about 75% true).

 

[iwatchus]

Category: Anal

Year published: 2025

Words: 11.6k

Basic premise: The protagonist, a somewhat insecure lesbian, manages to convince her old crush (the titular character) to have sex with her, after learning that the latter's fiancée has called off their engagement.

Themes: It's attempting to capture the bittersweet feelings of elation, sorrow, and awkwardness at having a wish fulfilled.

Motivation: Like most of my stories, I got an idea in my head that was distracting and it needed distillation.

Why is it your best story: I have no idea if it is or not. But it's probably my most accessible one, in terms of audiences, since lesbian anal is (arguably) the most mainstream thing I've published here.

Anything else we should know about it: It has romantic elements but not a classical 'happily ever after' ending, and fairly raw sex. It was on the advice of @StillStunned that I added the butt stuff and put it in Anal (this statement is actually about 75% true).

I assume this is Judy with the Booty? (I am trying to read each of the stories recommended here, regardless of category)

 

[Bamagan]

I assume this is Judy with the Booty? (I am trying to read each of the stories recommended here, regardless of category)

Yes, that's the one. It amused me that there was no place for the titles so I just filled out the 'required' fields.

 

[MrPixel]

Barstow - The story that launched a thousand sequels. Or so it seems.

Category: Mature

Year Published: 2023

Words: 18,542

Basic premise: Nude Day 2023 celebrated on a Route 66 road trip.

Themes: Public nudity, nudism in general, seeing the sights on Route 66, romance between mature and younger couples, swinging, parental angst.

Motivation: IRL enjoyment of road trips including Route 66, so let's make a nudie/sexy adventure out of it.

Why is it your best story: Humor, realism, romantic development, complexity, not all fun and games, established character personalities that could endure.

Anything else we should know about it: All major scenes take place in locations experienced firsthand.

 

[MelissaBaby]

So I can have a different "Best" than the last thread, right?

The Gold Dollar Girls


Category: Novels & Novellas

Year published: 2021

Words: 28k

Basic premise: The intersecting stories of four women who dance at a second rate strip club.

Themes: Each of the main characters represents one aspect of life as a stripper. Roxanne's narrative concerns the difficulty of maintaining a relationship as a sex worker. Clover confronts the institutional bias against sex workers as she tries to get custody of her son. Kayla is young and suffers from what the other girls call "Golden Pussy Syndrome". She hasn't yet learned about the pitfalls of the profession. Misty is sort of the "control group." She's the only really well adjusted one of the group, a student dancing to pay her way through college. But as I wrote it, something I had not really expected developed, and I realized that the real theme of the story was female friendship.

Motivation: From the time I started writing, I wanted to do a story based on the time I spent dancing in strip joints, and some of the women I knew then. I sought to strike a balance between showing readers some of both the positive and negative sides of that life.

Why is it your best story: Because I feel like I struck so many different notes, and nailed them all. It is both very funny and very sad, it has sex and violence and I hope, a bit of wisdom. But most of all, because I created a cast of characters that I really love, and that readers have told me they love as well (Hi, @Omenainen)

Anything else we should know about it: I have written three more Gold Dollar stories, one of which, White Castle Christmas, won the Reader's Choice Award for Best Humor & Satire for 2021.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Title: Playing with Fire

Category: Romance

Year published: 2024

Words: 67k (a bit long for a casual read)

Basic premise: A period piece set in the 1970s, it tells of the relationship between a photographer and a race car driver as they travel across Europe over the summer of the racing season.

Themes: The main theme is risk and risk taking, and what lengths that one might go to to realize one's desires, and the consequences of those risks.

Motivation: Ultimately I wanted to make the point that we don't really live unless we take some risks. It is also part of my mission to provide sexy male characters so sorely lacking on lit, and I find race car drivers sexy. So when the Yay Team! challenge was presented, I convinced myself to provide a sexy race car driver, despite my complete lack of interest in sports.

Why is it your best story: Because it made two of my beta readers break down into tears at multiple points (both happy and sad), and one of those readers abhors car racing.

Anything else we should know about it: Since I knew nothing about car racing and nothing technical about photography I spent a couple of weeks researching, reading articles and watching videos, to write this with any accuracy, if that matters. Also, posted in Romance, it does not fit the standard template of the genre, and the plot is very roller coaster, so if you like paperback romance, you will guaranteed hate this.

 

[NotWise]

The Third Ring

Category: SciFi/Fantasy

Year published: 2017

Words: 11.9k

Basic premise: No spoilers. There's a two-paragraph preface that lays the groundwork.

Themes: dedication to duty, power of true love

Motivation: to re-frame a Victorian telling of an American Indian folk tale in a sci-fi context.

Why is it your best story: strong themes, powerful emotions, effective story-telling

Anything else we should know about it: The story is a non-erotic epic tragedy.