2,000 words or less, enforced with Procrustean exactitude. I’ll only cut out the best bits…
Okay, my story is in with 33 minutes to spare on the time. I actually procrastinated on starting until this morning.
Thanks once again for co-ordinating, Le Min. And I rambled about these contests a little on my blog last Saturday, not quite sure why.
Time to wait for the end of the entire writing window, now. 
I’m just giving this a bump in case anyone’s unfulfilled New Year’s resolution for 2010 was to write a 2,000 word short story. There’s still enough time.
Just to clarify, guests are ok, as we (I am a guest, despite being a long time doper) to submit? I got the PM, I just don’t want to step on any toes…
If you can post, Tristan, you’re welcome to participate.
We really need a better catch-all word than “members.” Maybe “people who have an account”? Still pretty clunky.
It might also have helped if I’d put ‘guests’ on my little list up there. Sorry 'bout that, chief.
Still time for some of you to write something this weekend, assuming you are like me and prefer to stay at home New Year’s.
BTW, Le Ministre de l’au-delà, hope you got mine and how many are there so far?
DMark - yes, indeed, I did receive your hard work. I beg your pardon for not having said so here. For the record, so far I have my own story, plus six other stories from ** LVBoPeep, Savannah, Jules Andre, Clockwork Jackal, DMark** and ** chrisk**, making seven.
Two others have been sent the words & photo but there’s still plenty of room for more!
Received mine within the last hour. Interesting words and photo. Looking forward to what people can do with them!
Bumping the thread. I enjoyed the challenge so much I did it again. Googled “random Flickr image” and I had a site bookmarked that generates three random words for stories. Gave myself three days and 2000 word limit. I didn’t give myself a theme, however.
I, for one, would like to continue to do this on a regular basis. It’s a lot of fun, and a good writing exercise. Maybe that will be one resolution for 2011.
Anyway, do join in the SDMB short fiction contest!
What is that site? I’d like to give this a try too.
I’ve been using this site - Random Word Generator (Plus) when I’m away from home.
When I’m at home, I like to use my percentile dice from D and D (‘Why, yes, I am a geek - how ever did you guess?’) to generate 4 and 5 digit numbers, then I look them up in Roget’s Thesaurus. For the Poetry Sweatshops, I’ve also used the dice to find words in the collected works of Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heany, Walt Whitman and e e cummings.
Flickr: Explore interesting photos is an excellent random photo browser. Random Photo Browser is also really good. There is also the Flickr Random Image Generator at beezbuzz, which is not affiliated with Flickr.
Awesome, thanks!
This is where I am (about to be “was”) getting my three random words: Short Story Ideas - Random Words
I’ve started hitting repeats, though. 
I was trying to write a flasher a day for November and December – 100 word stories, and burned through the word selection pretty quickly. Three words, incorporated into the 100 word story.
The Flickr Random Image Generatr was where I got the random Flickr image.
I got a really good one for the current story, but of course, I can’t find it again. (I copied and pasted into my Word doc.)
Okay, back to the New Year’s Eve house-cleaning binge.
The Anthology Thread is now up and running - come see what everyone has written!
Okay, just sent mine off. I’ve intentionally not read any that have already been posted, so I’m off to do that now.
So many uplifting stories about faith, and magic, and forgiveness and family!
And then there’s mine. Um…I think I need to see a therapist or something.
Mine’s in now, hopefully. And Clockwork Jackal, yours will now have company in not being about faith, magic, forgiveness (at least not to the story’s villian) or family
Tell me about it…ever have that dream where you are naked and walk into the classroom and have forgotten you have a test that day?
Well…
Perhaps the “holiday muse” didn’t strike everyone the same…in comparison, mine reads like a heathen farted in church. Oh well…it’s January and time to take the tree down anyway.
BTW, great stories (everybody else!) and I really liked reading all of them!
Interesting that many thought the person wearing the hat in the photo was female…I just assumed it was a guy.