Story Word Counts are Not Correct

I posted a story on 10/25/21, titled, 'White Couple is Cuckolded in Jamaica', and it hasn't been published yet. That's fine with me, but the problem is the word count showing in the pending area is incorrect.

I've been posting stories on Lush for 10 years, and the word counts on your system have always matched the counts on my Word document, give or take a word of two. In this case, Word is showing 9,587 words, but your system is showing 10,169 words.

My main concern is that my story will be rejected for being over the 10,000 word limit, when it isn't.

Hiya, we know there are issues with the word counter, so we will double check everything in MS word if we think there is a discrepancy. Please don't worry about it