Fiction Shorts Style Guide

Formatting Drabbles

I was so hoping the dot of the ‘i’ would look like Shorty was pooping. It doesn’t quite work though. LOL (Image created by me.)

Please read the Drabble Guidelines for general information.

The only changes allowed to the word of the day are an ‘-ed’ or ‘-ing’.

Topics

Two of your topics must be Random and Drabble.

Editor Notes

If an editor leaves a note on your story, do not delete it. After the editor publishes your story, they will dismiss the note. If a different editor is looking at the story upon resubmission, they have no idea what the original editor requested.

Titles and Subtitles

Titles should be in title case, subtitles in sentence case without punctuation. Please use a title case conversion website. I use this one with only APA checked. https://titlecaseconverter.com/

Images

When possible, images should be horizontal and not spread out across the entire page. They play nicer with mobile devices that way.

All images need to be credited. If you use AI please identify the program used.

How do we count the words?

Please make sure your story, excluding title, subtitle, image caption, and other non-story verbiage, is EXACTLY 100 WORDS. To…