islinda Thank you for the clarification. I do have to ask, though. Isn't asking family and friends to vote for you considered vote manipulation and thus unfair and cheating? Or is that legal according to the competition rules? What's the point of having a story writing contest when the results are judged not by the merits or how well written the story is, but how popular it is, or the number of friends and family members the writer can bring in to influence his/her vote tally?