Following up on last week’s TOP 10 Stories of 2024 posts (The Best of 2024, The Rest of the Best (Part 1), and The Rest of the Best (Part 2), Pete Wood asked me to run another report breaking out the most-read Pete Wood Challenge stories of 2024. I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow, but for today, here you go. According to the readership metrics, these are the top Pete Wood Challenge Stories we published in 2024.
THE TOP 10
#1. “Wielder of Wit,” by Ian Li
#2. “The Offs,” by Ted Macaluso
#3. “In the Line of Duty,” by Gustavo Bondoni
#4. “The Triennial Igneous Tri-Partite Competition,” by Pauline Barmby
#5. “A Change of Management,” by S. R. Kriger
#6. “Like Clockwork,” by Yelena Crane
#7. “The Potato Singer,” by Ian Li
#8. “Hosting a Tempest,” by Ian Li
#9. (Tie) “Astronaut Countdown,” by Brandon Case
#9. (Tie) “Punch Flavored Punch,” by Yelena Crane
#10. (Tie) When the Woman in the Forest Says,
“Please, You Must Help,”
by Elis Montgomery
#10. (Tie) “Summit, in Memory,” by Ian Li
HONORABLE MENTIONS
In addition, these stories ranked high in the readership numbers, but not quite high enough to break into the TOP 10.
#1. “Reflections on Carnival-by-the-Sea,” by Christopher Degni
#2. “The Sirens’ Salvation,” by Kimberly Ann Smiley
#3. “Forgetting on Draft,” by Elis Montgomery
#4. “Dangerouser and Dangerouser,” by Sophie Sparrow
#5. (Tie) “Tonight, We Embrace the Dark,” by Gideon P. Smith
#5. (Tie) “To Hell and Back,” by Kai Delmas
Aside from, “You need to publish more Ian Li stories!” what do these numbers mean? We’ll talk about that tomorrow, in the next installment of The Never-ending FAQ.
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