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Attn: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest is accepting entries for Adults and Students. First prize $1,000 and publication in the Potomac Review. There is a $25 entry fee for the adult contest, but no entry fee for the high school students, and the deadline to enter is July 17, 2009. If you are interested, please click on the appropriate link Adult (pdf) or Student (pdf) for more information.

Editor's Note

Scotland's Royal Miles, by Roger Fritts

This month, we are pleased to honor three outstanding undergraduates, Inna Stair, Courtney Purdue, and Ellen Kolf. These three students were honored by our English Department. Inna won The Sam Blate Memorial Award for Advanced Fiction with her story, "Cat-astrophe." Courtney was awarded the Fiction prize for his story, "Let's be Happy" and Ellen Kolf for poetry. Read and enjoy these works by clicking on the links to the left.

For inside information about the Potomac Review, click on our Blog link. I muse about the mountain of maybes and our interns give you the straight scoop on successful cover letters.

We are deep in production of Issue #46. Enjoy the summer. Our new Hot Opener, is a July story and will be up soon.

Best, Julie and the PR Team.

If you have any questions, email us at PotomacReviewEditor@montgomerycollege.edu.

Sincerely,

Julie Wakeman-Linn, Leila Emery and Will Grofic.

Hot Opener

The Fourth
A short story by
Paul Weidknecht

After Gail Plinking decided splendorous was as fine a word as any, one completely appropriate for describing Ulysses Brookton Turnright’s estate, she felt more at ease. She would use it to characterize the Ballroom in the South Wing. The Ballroom was over halfway through the tour, and by then the visitors would be used to the flow and cadence of her speech; the exactness of her vocabulary would be nothing less than clarion. Shouldn’t confuse the visitors with words they might not know, at least not at the beginning of the tour. This might alienate them for a moment, causing them to miss some enlightening fact that would have made all the difference in their visit. Seven years as docent had shown it was good to change the presentation from time to time. She might even start using that word on this morning’s first group.

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Last updated: 07/2009

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