"When It's Ping Again..."

With 144 stories by 31 McStorytellers now published on the site and with 529 story ratings received so far, it's time to unveil our latest McTop Ten.  So here are today's positions, with the total scores for each story in brackets.

1     Ping Time (118)
2     A Slice of Undead Life (98)
3     Postcards from the Departure Lounge (72)
4     Eliminating Heat (70)
5     Angels Don't Have Wings - Take 1 (61)
6     Crack: it gives you wings (58)
7     Maggie Murphy's Home For Bad Boys (55)
8=   Deed But No Buried (52)
8=   Does It Make Him Unfaithful, People? (52)
10   A Shelter from the Storm (50)
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The scores reflect both the number of raters and their enjoyment of the stories, with the latter calculated in the following way: Very much = 4, Quite a lot = 3, So-So = 2, Not very much = 1, Not a lot = 0.)
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Ping Time, my tale of a real-life office megalomaniac and this site’s very first story, still holds the top spot.

Also still holding second and third places are Canadian author January Bain with her vampirish tale, A Slice of Undead Life, and Alloa writer Gavin Broom with his haunting story of a young girl’s escape, Postcards from the Departure Lounge.

While the top three positions remain unchanged, Aberdeen-based author and adopted Scot Bill Kirton has stormed into the McTop Ten at number four with his wickedly humorous piece, Eliminating Heat.

Please keep reading and rating, folks.  We’re running low on new stories to publish, so a few submissions would also be very welcome.