This is a pretty well-designed website. I know, it's just a place for people to dump stories that aren't good enough to sell, right? Well, it's also a place for people to publish really good stuff that the author could probably have made money off of, but just didn't want to go to all the trouble.
One of the features that I recently noticed is an "Authors' Favorites" list, a list of those stories which are in the most authors' own favorites list.
Oh.
I've never bothered with that on my ownpage, it's just too pretentious to put stuff there because all three of my readers really want to know what I like to read, but hey there's some value here. If I populate my own author's list, that goes into the counting for that big list. Stories that I really liked will move up on that summary list that people should be looking at. Sure. For that, I'll put stuff in my own favorites list.
Only, there's a quirk. See, I don't write for others. I write for me, and I've learned that some others like to read my writing, so I post it here. I _like_ my own writing. I mean, if I didn't then I would probably stop, right? I've even mentioned before that one of my goals is to, someday when I'm senile and no longer remember who I am, stumble across this website, discover some good stories, and realize that I really like that Zen Master guy's stories. I wish he was still writing.
So, yeah, two of the stories I've put on this site are two of my favorite stories. I can't add them to my favorites list, though. Lazeez has that blocked. Authors can't list their own work in their own favorites list. Bummer, man.
ZM