Appreciate the advice, and I think Naivul is right, a bit more description might have been helpful.
It would be fair to say that all 53 are almost like chapters in the same story. They are all interconnected, sharing characters and taking place in a rough chronological order. One of the plot devices I used to create my fictional world was a "remote," modified from one of my stories from back in the day. I gave it the ability to project a "Damsel In Distress" (DID) ray (among many, MANY other things). I like to have things internally consistent and at least semi-rational, and the DID ray was my explanation for why what occurs in the stories is possible. The DID ray was patterned off observations from having read many, many ENF stories and noticed patterns, such as a) brats seem to love humiliating our protagonist/victims (P/Vs), b) P/Vs clothes seem rather fragile and accident prone, c) rather than helping the P/Vs, onlookers generally enjoy the spectacle, often making it worse through catcalls, taking pictures, etc.
Now, I mention this because ANOTHER of the DID ray's properties, taken from observation from many stories, is that it spreads from one P/V to other P/vs as they encounter each other. Of the 53 stories I mentioned previously, virtually all of them were descended from two specific seed characters which I had the DID ray used on. My series plot looks something like a tree diagram. While I thought this was a cool idea at the time, it may be that it's preventing me from focusing on just one as Wayne suggests or cutting parts as mentioned by CaptainQuixote.
Will have to consider that more.
Ironically, were I to just pick one and buckle down on it, it almost certainly wouldn't be the "first" story in my series. The first story is one of my least favorites at this point. However, as mentioned, it's now the basis for so many others I can't really get rid of it. Sigh.
Anyway, thanks again
