My New Thing -- Who's In?

I've been fooling with an idea lately and I figured I'd go "live" with it and see what happens. I'd like to start a regular short-story club. You know, no big deal, but an opportunity for people who are interested to write short fiction based on a common prompt and post it here, open for comments. I'm not sure about all the mechanics yet, but I'm envisioning a pretty simple thing. Maybe one a month, or maybe every other week. I'd post a prompt (or anybody could suggest one) and then people could email me stories and I'd post them and throw it open to comments.

Here's why I'd like to do it ... it's not for lack of writing, nor is it because I'm just swimming in extra time. No, no and no. Fact is, I'm busy all the time. I'm sure you are too. But the idea of doing something new, and building a little community of story-tellers, really appeals to me. I also like the idea of a laboratory to try out new ideas, work with some new characters, and get some feedback. I like the idea of writing something smallish and funish and not worrying too much about whatever's going to happen to it.

So if anybody is interested, email me at jvzile@aol.com. If enough people respond, I'll post some ground rules and we can go from there ...