I was rethinking my top ten gen stories and decided that to make it only fair, I should only have one story per writer. While I will still stand with my original ten (really 15) top gen stories, I have a revised list which is really more limited to ten stories and writers (well, sorta). Actually if you compare lists, I have only dropped multiple author entries and added three new items.
1. The Road to Hell--Suzan Lovett--The Road to Hell (still in print through Judith Proctor) 2. Game of Humanity--Sheila Paulson--Probability Square (and also the sequel which is The Dreamers in Blake's Doubles) 3. What Are Legend--Linda Terrell--Something Unfriendly This Way Comes 1 4. Double Duel--Catherine Salmon--Evasive Maneuvers (This zine is gen, adult, and slash but Double Duel is definitely a gen story) 5. Dupe--Marian Mendez--Pressure Point 6. Locus--Rebecca Ann Brothers--Zen and the Art of Rebellion 2 7. Rebel Quarter--Judith Proctor--Avon newsletter 73 (and Judith's website) 8. Throwing It All Away--Leah Rosenthal and Ann Wortham--Southern Seven 1 9. Duel, or, The Folly of Madness--Margaret Scroggs--Horizon 17 10. The Thirteenth Hour--Bryn Lantry--Rites of Passage
Honorable Mention and on certain days these would be in the top ten. (The ONLY three stories I list which would always be in the top ten are numbers 1,2,3. )
11. Remember Me--Pat Fenech--Rites of Passage 12. Dante's Madness--Linda Knights--Questions of the Past
This list still leaves out some great writers and some great stories. But it's a little fairer in that I have added stories by three writers that I definitely respect and enjoy.
Joyce