I also wondered about the writers to stories numbers on each of the tags. Then it made my brain hurt and I stopped looking at it.

BTW, I read and enjoyed all 4 of your entries. And now, despite recently reading something like a thousand stories on how you should NEVER leave a link to your story in comments, here is a link to my least performing contest entry (it's a low comparative bar).

Though not written for the death prompt, it still manages to talk about death. I'm in the zeitgeist!

https://karenfayeth.medium.com/a-separate-place-b7bd58f59803