Yeah, the hits for Dear Mike I understand (esp. as it set on the featured stories for about half a year, as well!) but I've seen some brilliant stories that got recced on calufrax and then still got very few reviews, so I'm still horribly confused about that. Happily horribly confused mind! But still... :)

And, sigh. The smith awards story. I'm way too ambivalent with it to be really happy about it - I mean, I know I shouldn't complain, but it's hardly what I consider one of my best stories, and TBH I thought there were much better stories running in that category that didn't get that far (my personal winner is still Five Times After Goodbye and I'm sticking to it, damnit!).

Also, cheers for saying Fade Away is a wonderful story... :) but I have to admit I'm sort of automatically discounting it and Hello I Love You. I probably shouldn't, and I'm probably doing a huge generalisation that is quite unfair to a lot of people... but Rose/Ten stories tend to get a lot of reviews. Period. No matter what the context is. So it's really hard to judge based on reactions alone whether I succeeded in writing something good or not (although, I guess if I get a number of "I don't usually like these stories but..." I should consider it as good. I don't know! :( )