This is by no means an extensive list of all the stories I’ve loved in the more than decade I’ve been reading and writing fanfiction. Unfortunately, many have been lost to board deletions and time, so if for some reason I don’t have a link available, it’s because I personally don’t have one anymore.

And most of these stories are older just because I am horribly out of date with my reading and I’ve been writing so much lately I haven’t had much chance for getting caught up on newer stories.

These are not ranked in any order, just by the way I remembered to put them on the list.

1. Quagmire by ILETUDRIVE. Stephanie is hands down, one of my favorite GH authors, even though some of her best work remains incomplete. I have fantasies she’ll come back to writing one day, but ha, I may be delusional. This particular entry is set in 2002 and rewrites the stalker storyline in tremendous fashion.
2. The Right Girl by Huma. My obsession with Johnny and Nadine can be directly traced to this story.  I could never write these characters as well as she does, but I sure try. And her Claudia? Flawless. Just fantastic.
3. Worlds on Fire by LeaB. An older story that I just read this year, as she mostly finished it after I had disappeared from the fic world. It’s a rewrite of the 2004 storylines that inspired me to write Jason and Elizabeth storyline in The Best Thing as a slow-paced reconnection. Really, anything by Lea is tremendous.
4. Heartbeats by oyhumbug. I found this at Archive Of Our Own this last year and spent days catching up on this author’s work. This is my favorite of her works–a unique take on Jason’s exit in 2000 and the selfish nature of the people in his life.
5. The Lone Ranger series by Huma. This is Liason and company in high school. It’s alternate universe and pretty much goes against everything I’ve ever said about writing in character, but my God, it still works for me.
6. Web of Deceit by ILETUDRIVE. The story that’s inspired my recent return to 2002 and those events. It takes the car accident Courtney, Elizabeth, and Gia were involved in during that spring and does something so amazing with it, I can’t even begin to describe it.
7. Once Upon a Time by eliza. I no longer have a link for this story, which is literally so damn depressing. It’s set in Regency era England, where debutante Elizabeth finds herself falling for black sheep Jason Morgan.
8. Whispers by JewelTones. No longer available on the web, but a fantastic supernatural alternate universe I wish I had saved years ago.
9. Dance With the Devil by Jeweltones. Also not available, but a semi AU story in which Elizabeth and Jason are in Italy.
10. Not Jake’s Food by SlimWhistler. The only link I have for this is kind of crappy — the conversion from Ezboard to Yuku left it with no punctuation, so it can be hard to follow. That being said, one of the quintessential Liason stories from the good old days.

Honestly, I could list everything by Lea, Stephanie, and Huma, so please check out the other stories their links lead to. I just tried to choose my absolute favorites here. If anyone has links to the three stories I don’t have anymore, I’d love to see that. I’m working on overhauling my link section, so maybe as I revisit more sites, I’ll be able to add to this.

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