New Scientist magazine is running a flash fiction contest — and they want YOU to enter.

The rules are simple: set your story 100 years in the future, and tell your story in no more than 350 words. Then send it to New Scientist and await your sure-to-arrive-soon fame and fortune.

And, if you need help generating ideas, David Malki has created an Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000, which is sure to provide you with winning ideas for years and years to come. (Malki is the creator of the Wondermark: An Illustrated Jocularity online comic. If you’re not reading it every week, you should be.)

Given our recent work with Aristotle’s Poetics, I have no doubt you’ll find much of interest in the E-PHG-FG2K.

(Click the image to go to Wondermark and view the E-PHG-FG2K in biggie form.)