Baltimore Rogers EMCSA MD Top 25 Stories of the Moment -- Halloween Edition

EMCSA MD STORIES
(of the moment)

For the "why"s and "wherefore"s of this list, see my original Top 25 list.

The biggest mover this month is the gruesome tale The Hard Way II. Both this sequel and the original story climbed into the Top 25 after their mandatory month on-deck in the "Honorable Mention" list, but the sequel is the true high climber.

The list follows below the fold...


NOTES:

• I'm not claiming to be some kind of connoisseur of erotic mind control stories, but I know what I like:
• I like the category tags
• cb: comic book/superhero/-heroine/-villain
• sf: science fiction
• I like heavy moods, ranging from "dark" to "grim"
• I like a strong—and perhaps even evil—dominant male breaking/taming one or more strong—and perhaps even heroic—females.
• I like interesting plot twists and surprises
• Category Tags are listed and linked to story lists here. The tags that I consider common to all: mc, mf, md, are not listed. Lists of tags in parentheses are tags that were not given by the EMCSA, but which I feel are nonetheless appropriate Occasionally one of these stories does not include the "md" tag in the EMCSA. If so it will be in my parenthetical list. Tags in parentheses preceded by a minus sign (-) are tags that were granted by the EMCSA but which I felt were not justified by the story. 
• Purple stories (those with a mix of sexual orientations, or with zero or more than one dominance orientations) included here are "honorary" yellow stories. In such stories I have judged that most sex—or the most important sex—is M/f.
• Honorable Mention stories are stories that I feel are good enough to be in the Top 25, if only there were not 25 stories in front of them. I expect this list to grow over time, for lots of reasons. You can basically consider all HM stories as "tied for #26".

Top 25

Rank	Δ	Title	Tags	Author	Notes
1	=	The Collar	(bd ds sf)	Sinsub	—
2	↑2	An Agent Enslaved	(bd ds hm sf)	blueharvest1977	—
3	=	The Return of the Confectioner	ff fd bd cb (ds -fd)	sara castle	U2
4	↓2	Delta Nights	bd cb (ds hm nc)	Pegasus	—
5	↑1	Y	ff fd ft sf gr (bd ds)	Fool's Page	—
6	↑1	There are No Bad Girls	(bd ds sf)	Vendatrix	—
7	↑6	The Superheroine Bride	cb (ds)	Trent Wolf	—
8	=	Limits	in	Pan	U3
9	=	Cow's Bargain	la (ds)	Darkmind , Flibinite	—
10	↑2	Triumph of the Toy Maker	ff cb (ds sf)	The King of Hearts	U4
11	↑15	The Hard Way II	bd	Bad Wolf	—
12	↓7	Taming The Tease	(ds)	Trent Wolf	—
13	↓2	Betrayed Downstream	sf ts	The Lycanthrope	—
14	↑8	Capes and Cloaks: The Illithid's Tale	ff cb bd (ds)	Samarkand	—
15	↑4	Leveling the Playing Field	ff (bd ds sf)	antiwidow	—
16	↓6	The Adventures of Rania	ff fd in bd (ds)	Julien Sorel	—
17	↓3	Perfect Wishes	ff (hm nc)	Billy_Ray77	—
18	↓3	Twenty Days of the Device	ff (ds sf)	Corvus Kahn	—
19	↓3	UC:Fates	ff fd (ds nc)	amaranth	—
20	↓3	Omega Girl	ff fd cb (bd ds)	J. Darksong	—
21	↓3	Jake's Dream Come True	(bd nc)	Billy_Ray77	—
22	↑4	The Hard Way	bd	Bad Wolf	—
23	=	White Knight and Titmouse	ff fd sf bd cb hu (ds)	mcguy101	U3
24	↓3	Doublespeak	sf (ds hm)	Riverkitten	U1
25	↑1	For a Prettier World	sf	InLeaves	—

Honorable Mention

Δ	Title	Tags	Author	Notes
=	The Accidental Master	—	Lord Skies	—
=	Ampere's Sleepy Adventures	cb (bd ds)	sara castle	U2
=	The Body Scanner	ff (ds sf)	wouldnitbnice	—
NEW	Bring Me to Life	(sf)	ElSol	—
NEW	Business and Pleasure	(sf hm ma bd)	IIvx	—
NEW	Business Reversal	ft hm	Downing Street	—
NEW	Crescent City Stories: What the Villains Did Next	ff bd cb rb (md fd)	sara castle	U2
=	Fallen Future	ff ds hm in ma bd	Thralen	U1
=	Free Universal Carnal Knowledge	ff (ds)	London Chap	—
=	Manual Override - Mikey Gets His First Pet	(ff ds hm)	The King of Hearts	—
=	Mental Cruelty	nc (md)	Mind Control Fan	U1
↓6	A Perfect World	ff (ds hm)	Trent Wolf	—
=	The Phone Directory	(md)	Archaic Ragnarok	—
↓2	Psionic_X Rules the World	cb (ds nc)	Psionic_X	—
=	Rescue Me	(md)	Jukebox	—
=	A Silhouette Sunday	mc mf md hm ft sf (bd ds)	GhostWriter	—
=	The Slavers	ff fd sf (hm bd ft)	Fool's Page	—
=	Speak Softly While My Master Sleeps	(ds)	AMOWAT	—
↓1	The Taming of Diana	—	Trent Wolf	—
=	Unsweetened	sf	The Lycanthrope	—

Story Notes

• U1:  Unfinished and apparently abandoned
• U2:  Actually a complete story arc in the unfinished Crescent City Stories saga. Sara has passed on. This saga will never be finished.
• U3:  Unfinished but the author is known to be actively working on it.
• U4:  Unfinished, but an updated version (more complete in some ways, but equally unfinished) available for sale as The Return of Toy Boy. See the author's MCForum thread on the subject.