Hi Janet. I wrote a recent story about my Medium journey and my burnout and one of the things I advised is for writers to stop doubting themselves and their writing, based on whatever the hell is going on with the Medium algorithm or anything else. Ironically, your lack of reads may have noting to do with you or the story. I also display the tons of 100% read ratios I have and many of those stories barely earned a few cents. Go figure...So stop racking your brain and just keep writing. Don't worry about it. Perhaps it will straighten itself out. We can always dream :-)