@ghostcode you do make valid points in your argument and I do think something should be done. Rather than split the award between the two of you, I've decided to reward each of you equally for this first contest. 

Thanks for  your entry in the first contest, I appreciate that you took the time to pour yourself into that piece. I'd like to encourage you to compete in the most recent weekly contest  as well. Starting a contest will always have bumps in the beginning, and I think you've got a ton of creative talent and story ideas which could help grow this contest and attract more  to compete. 

In the end,  the goal of this project is to get more flash fiction into the Steemit marketplace and build a thriving community  for fiction.