Thank you for pointing that out. I corrected it by deleting a word.
I guess I'm going to have to manually count all of the words in my drabble stories.
Word gave me a count of exactly 100 on every one of the stories before I submitted them. I see now I cannot believe the word count program.
And you're right...if a drabble is 99 words or 101 words the story is disqualified.
I'm happy you enjoyed Jack-o. He's a pretty rapacious parrot, isn't he? :-)
Liked The Pernicious Pirate, but I count 101 words!