Welcome Aboard! Please read the info on the daily word announcement. It changes weekly, so once you're familiar with the content, just check the New this week … section.

Medium's count varies from Word, Pages, and Google Docs. Check it on Medium before submitting. Here's how:

Please make sure your story, excluding title, subtitle, and image caption, is EXACTLY 100 WORDS. To do this, highlight the story copy only and in the upper left corner, you'll see Medium's word count. That's how we determine the word count. If the word count is wrong, we'll note it and reject it for you to adjust.

If you're on a phone or tablet, you can do this by going to your browser and requesting the desktop site, but it's a little clunky.

You will start being tagged tomorrow but can find the word for tomorrow at Fiction Shorts https://medium.com/fiction-shorts