Hey Jay, I would like to add two middle fingers to the one you wrote right here. They really--REALLY--screwed up! I have written over 400 articles in a year, some good some not so good. You and I are work horses here...Medium has made us look like Boxer from The Animal Farm. I don't want to be Boxer. It almost seems like this gal was hanging out at some party with the Medium owner, the actress who judged here and others and he just sort of told her, "Randi, if you submit, I will see to that you win." So as not to put any unwanted pressure on the actress-judge (can't recall her name and don't feel like looking it up), they decided her submission would be for Death. The story is stream of consciousness...a blurry, caffeine-inspired whirl with words and like you say, not inspiring; does not make me aspire and certainly does nothing that the contest rules asked for. She was so "brave" writing about her grandmother's suicide...I guess that is why they put that suicide hotline number in the original winner's article. I say bullshit to them and it seems that in bending over backwards to make these subpar stories fit, they busted the "Al"--the algorithm. Where to we take our content now that they have officially punked us?