I am constantly amazed at the reactions to my stories. Good and bad. I have been an author on SoL for a bit more than a decade. My output is not prodigious. Some years I put out three or four stores, other years, I barely manage one. A lot of that is based on the events in the world outside and how much time I have to work on stories.
In the time I have been posting, Luci is my most read story, and it has taken more than a decade to get to the level it is at (some 30K reads). Until recently my number two story was Rainy Night in Paris and it was down in the 4K reads. Recently I posted Sheltered Life and in less than a month, it became not only my second most read story, but also had more than 23K reads. What took me 10+ years to achieve with one story took less than six months with another.
Earlier this week I posted Teenage Memories and it is quickly rocketing up the chart at sits at number 14, with more than 2K reads. Several of my multi-chapter stories still are below 1000 reads.
Now, I will grant that not everything I write is literature. Most of it is shlock actually, but that is how it goes. At the end of the day, though I am touched that so many of you enjoy what I am writing, and continue to read it (and occasionally ask for more - I wish I could write a Luci II. I really do).
I have a couple of fluffier pieces sitting on my desk. If I can find the time to clean them up, I will post them. Or if something else comes to mind, I will post that too. In the meantime, thanks for reading what is already on the site.