Your best story with a terrible rating

[Rustyoznail]

For some reason I can't remember, I wrote a Scifi story for the 2019 Halloween comp. I decided to challenge myself and have the FMC, Tess Everis, only converse with words she spoke in the video game, Destiny. And no repeats.

That was difficult, but I was happy with the result. Unfortunately the readers weren't keen on it.

https://literotica.com/s/festival-of-the-lost

 

[MyBareTorso]

We all know that ratings are a bit of a mess and open to both the vagaries of audiences and plain old abuse. [not sour grapes, I have over twenty thirty Hs]

Given this, if you had to pick the one of your works which has the most egregious gap between story quality and rating, what would it be?

For me, it’s pretty easy. A Hard Day’s Night is probably me at close to my current best; at least in the short story arena (it’s 11k words). The tale’s rating is suppressed by the [IMO appropriate] category I published it in, but nevertheless it’s not a 3.98 (or even a 4.48 if you make allowances for the 0.5 Loving Wives “tax”).

How about you?

Em

UPDATE: Apparently I can’t count

I absolutely LOVED writing my Winter Holiday contest story "Oz Beach Boy Vs Mariah Xmas Carey", and I'm admittedly pretty disappointed that it hasn't risen above a 4. It's very Aussie -centric, and Mariah Carey is in it, which may have hurt its scores. I'm confident it's not just because it sucks...

https://www.literotica.com/s/oz-beach-boy-vs-mariah-xmas-carey