Writing Exercise of the Week

Ash and I think it might be fun to throw out the occasional writing exercise or prompt and see if any of you rise to the occasion.

Here's one I used when I was teaching English at the University of Georgia many years ago:

Get hold of a New Yorker magazine (alternately, you can go to www.newyorker.com). Read it, because it's chock-full of excellent writing. Then look at the cover. In 800 words or less, write a story about what's going on in the cover. You can be literal or figurative or use the cover as a jumping off point for something random. Have fun.