On this count I would really appreciate it if people could try with this rule. I am not going to count the words and penalize people for only writing 800 words, and going over the 1000 words is fine, but I really don't want all these stories to just be a paragraph or so.

It's not a hard rule, but a bit of effort to give the prose some meat to it would be very much appreciated. Not that your stories so far haven't been fab, but just as a general rule, I don't want lots and lots of one paragraph snippets or drabbles if possible.