I don't really like any of the stories I wrote before 2003, but I have two stories from that era that would tie for least favorite. One is called "Silent Desperation," and the other is "The Other Child." They were both written off ideas given to me by other people, which is one reason I probably never enjoyed writing them as much as my other stories. SD is the drug story I think I mentioned somewhere in the other thread; it was one of my early stories, and I was pathetically naive and did a piss poor job of researching and writing it realistically, so it's just embarrassing. TOC was my first AU, back when I didn't like AUs, and I got so sick of writing it that I just wrapped it up early and told everyone I would write a sequel to tell the rest of the story. Well, I never wrote the sequel. So the story just sort of ends abruptly, I think. I hate it so much I haven't even looked at it in years; I'm just going off of memory.