Well, those do happen to be my two favorite stories of yours, so I would argue there's a reason why they're popular! Also, with "Dear Mike" the Calufrax rec throws off the hit rate calculations, because that draws more people to try the story out -- but every review it got was earned, and well deserved.

And hey, you did win at smith_awards with a marvelous main-character story. Speaking of which, I never did review that one on Teaspoon, but I did give you a positive vote review, does that count? *g* "Fade Away" seems to be doing well too, and that's a wonderful story.