A plea for help

I've just got the latest "Balliol Misc" email. There is the usual batch of lost bones and drunken choristers, but there is also something of interest to me. The first ever Isis prize is being awarded this year for the best poetry and prose by Oxford students. I'd love to win it; you get published in the magazine. but more than that, it would be amazing to win something that's open to all Oxford graduates and undergraduates. So while I probably won't win, I want to try (prose, that is - I can't write poetry).

The problem is, the deadline is really soon - October 26th, so it's barely a week from now. I haven't written original fiction in forever and I need an idea post-haste. So please, someone give me one! Anything - a short story you always wanted to see written, something I've said I'd write but I haven't, a published work I can mine for ideas, anything at all. The word limit is 1000 words, but I'd better get going. Please help.

Also, out of interest, are any of the other Oxonians thinking of entering?

Edited to add: It's like NaNoWriMo in miniature! Only not as hard. Except it has to be good, so maybe it is as hard.