If you’ve written multiple stories or chapters, you probably have a rough idea of what readers have as their favorites of your stories. But what’s YOUR favorite story of the things you’ve written? Maybe not favorite overall—hard to do—but a story, chapter, passage that does something you enjoy/are proud of. What do you like about it, and why?
Be sure to provide a link to the story so we can see if we agree. 
Okay, I’m probably gonna get yelled at for choosing two, but the ones that I’ve always liked the most are:
).Is it okay if I say my favourite is the story I’m working on right now? (And can we talk about that mindset?)
If I had to pick from stories I’d already posted, I’d have two as well. I’ve chosen both for ‘hits all my kinks and makes me want to read it again and again’ and ‘is a high-concept story that represented an elevation of my writing chops’.
Pheromones and the Boys Who Don’t Want Them was a oneshot about an intersex guy with sex pheromones who falls in love with a demisexual guy that isn’t affected by them. I felt like I was able to intertwine this deep, heart-breaking need for love with really kinky pheromone-fuelled sex scenes, and my ultimate goal is to infuse my smut stories with emotion without losing track of the hotness and wank-worthiness.
Curse of the Werebull was a corruption/transformation story that elevated my ability to communicate atmosphere, both erotic and otherwise, through prose and description. It felt incredibly sexy without needing sex scenes (until the end) and the characters came alive as I wrote them. I reread it as regularly as I do Pheromones.
(My highest accomplishment in ‘emotion + smut’ is not in this list because it’s not as actively kinky as these others. Not that I don’t find it hot and rereadable, just not as heavy a hitter as these two.)
The story I’m proudest of is “Fish”. Someone on the site didn’t like my rules about underage characters and was really pissy about it, despite me trying to work with them and even allowing them to write and post a story about how they felt about it and me and my rules. After all that, I felt very much like this is why we can’t have nice things. This inspired me to plot/put together Fish, a story where friends get a wish granting amulet as long as they all agree, and one friend ruins it for all of them because he can’t get everything he wants.
Cheating, and talking about two stories, the one I revisit the most often is Trouble Maker. It was started by another writer and the obliviousness of the narrator character, while everyone around him is retroactively becoming super studs, just really does it for me.
I’m tempted to shout out some of my earlier work, but like others have said, I think my writing has gotten better over the years. Some of my early stories might be my favorite concepts, but the execution wasn’t quite up to par.
To pick just one and not ‘smuggle’ as the House of R podcast would say, I would pick:
If you want to skip straight to the spiral stuff, you can just read the Chapter 3: Ctrl+V by itself, but I do think the earlier chapters have some decent sex and D/s scenes even without an explicit mind control element.
Also, I am definitely bookmarking this thread so I can read some of my favorite author’s personal favorites they have written. Great topic idea.
The story I’m proudest of is also the one that probably got the most enthusiastic reactions. What I like is that it turned out to be emotionally satisfying for readers and just worked as a well-structured story:
I loved that story when I read it too, because it had a satisfying story ending
It’s an interesting question to answer, because there’s different ones of mine I like for different reasons, and some which I’d forgotten about until going back through the list.
It’s not my best in terms of writing quality or execution, but I think out of them all XXX-Ray Specs is my favourite.
It is not particularly high-concept, and for a lot of people might even be disappointing with how it effectively skips to the end result (and back again), so not much in terms of induction. But I really liked the effect it gave, and I remember it was a lot of fun to write.
Mine are the following.
The last story of my “classic” period, written in 2002:
The Berries
The story I wrote during my hiatus of 17 years (apart from a reimagining of The Bus Episode) and published in 2019.
The Lexington Bed & Breakfast
A story where I went more experimental
The Lawyer’s True Name
I don’t expect people to read a 35,000 word saga to see if they agree, but Monster Act.
I wrote it in a fervent few weeks — it wrote itself really. I love it and I love the characters in it. My abilities as a writer is still… getting there, but, c’est la vie, I’m still growing.
Maybe in the future I rewrite it PG-13 version, and commission a graphic novel of it.
I like all my stories; there are a few that bug/embarrass me but I wouldn’t write them–or keep them published–if there wasn’t something in them that I enjoyed.
That being said, my favorite part of writing smut is managing to capture the personalities of different kinds of men and play out how they might react to the experience of turning gay and then loving it. The two (since everyone else chose two) that tend to be most satisfying for me in that regard are The Christmas Stone, where a guy magically gains the power to become the dude the men around him are fantasizing about; and Big Bro Quarantine, where a guy’s older brother comes to stay with him during the COVID lockdowns and slowly hypnotizes him over the course of a couple of days.
In both of these stories, I feel like there’s a nice balance of the magical elements being compelling and well-contained, the sex being more or less smoldery, and the characters’ reactions and interactions being fresh and fun to experience. A lot of my other stories, I know where I’ve cheated or where an element has kind of outgrown the shape of the story, but those two tend to be pretty consistently charming when I reread them.
I like most of what I’ve done…but I’ve been working on a series of stories for a few months that I just started putting up based on a character I didn’t know much about until January. The hero in question has a pretty screwed up life and it fit perfect for a mind control story. The poor hero just wants people to like him! He’s got enough issues with self worth from his father’s abuse that it almost makes you NOT want to mess with him!
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My other favorite is the last one I actually was brave enough to put up where a kid finds out he can control someone with just his voice after turning eighteen.
Gosh! This is a hard question. One of my personal favourites is a slow-burn romance ghost story called “To See, To Hear, To Touch, To Kiss”. I had a great time writing it and it has one of my favourite characters that I’ve ever written in it. It probably never really found a large audience because it’s not short and it’s not really a story you can wank to, but I loved writing it, and even rereading it, I think it’s probably some of the best stuff I’ve ever written.
To See, To Hear, To Touch, To Kiss
Otherwise, I think I like most of my stories equally, but a few standouts for me are:
The Morphée Hill Manor House
The Cambion Monsterfucker
and
The B in BDSM is for Béchamel
Is this a bot? I can’t find a story with that title on the site.
Hm. I wonder now that you’ve mentioned it. So many posts on one day… So, are you a bot, BB?
“Are you a Bot?” sounds like the theme for the next story contest. Lol.
In my (ungodly long, approaching novel length) abdl story I am particularly proud of the shortest chapter, https://www.gaykinkystories.com/story/show/10005648
It did not emerge as a favorite amongst readers, probably because it’s extremely short and only one thing happens. But from the writer’s perspective, it was the critical transition in the story and resolved a bunch of stuff just the way I wanted. I had difficulty getting the story out of one setting and into the next and this chapter managed to do it in far fewer words than anything else I accomplished in the story.
I still plan to finish the story eventually, but I cannot say when that will happen. I know how it all ends, but writing the story to earn that ending will be a lot of work.
I definitely respond to this–when I manage to do something tricky from a writing standpoint, like a hard transition in a story, and it’s satisfying to me, by which I mean I don’t see all the awkward gluing and joining when I re-read it…that’s an incredible feeling.
You’re so right about deciding which story is my favorite as they all excite me in different ways and came out of different ideas I explored in my mind. But I think to answer this question I would put up two chapters of the series I’m writing now Change of Attire.
‘Denim Dudes’ by New Guy in Town - Gay Spiral Stories
Denim Dudes, like I say in the opening author note, allowed me to bring my long time fantasy of being a hypnochip slave like Sparkplug in life. It truly was enjoyable to edit that chapter and put it in its current form.
‘Uniformed Slavehood’ by New Guy in Town - Gay Spiral Stories
This chapter, like Denim Dues, allowed me to bring another fantasy (being a slave in a Japanese school uniform) to the page. But I like the banter between Hakeem and Adam as they contemplate and comment on the state of affairs.
So those are the two chapters I would offer up.
I’ve written a lot of stories, but if I had to pick my all-time favorite of mine it would be THE NEW ADVENTURES OF KAKE AND PEKKA That was the story I had the most fun writing – I also did a ton of research for it, which let me view and read and absorb Tom of Finland’s work. Simple joys.
I also really like my NEW SUPERMEN series. It’s a fun read.