Where does the time go?

Welcome to the Thunderdome's eleventh birthday.

Here's the story: this week, when you enter, you should pick a number from 1 to 572 (no duplicates. Or you can leave it up to judge's choice). That week's prompt is your prompt. A judge will then assign you an Extreme Flash Rule to help make your story more intense. (These are not hellrules. Hellrules are available on request with toxx.)

Technical details: if your prompt involves an assignment, you'll get that as well as the Extreme Flash Rule. They may be recycled from those given that week. If your prompt allows you to choose something when you sign up, you can do that. If your prompt involves collaboration, teams, brawls, submitting multiple stories, anonymous submission, ignore all that. Just do one normal story using the rest of the prompt (or one of the prompts for those multiple entries weeks.)

Oh, yes. This week goes to 11, and this week's word count goes to 11,111 words. To be clear, there is no minimum word limit; don't feel like you need to go anywhere near that if the spirit doesn't move you.

The usual exclusions apply unless your prompt specifically removed one, i.e. poetry only with the poetry weeks.