Hey Strel - thanks for the plug.
Not to sound like a broken record by repeating what everyone said above, but the best story is the one that you like the best. To quote Frank Zappa, "If you like it, it's bitchen, and if you don't like it, it's shitty." I like stuff that some other people can't stand (I'm sure there are STILL people out there who still wonder why the stories I've written all have nylon-foot-tickling, even though they were written for a series called...the Nylon Dungeon. No, really folks, I'm not kidding; Morandilas has been asked questions about this.)
And you might like stuff that doesn't interest me at all. To each his own. You say tomato, I say tomato (that doesn't work in print).
How long has this thread been sitting around? Jeez, am I ever out of the loop these days...