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2015 Flashcard Flash Fiction Contest Judged in-house. First Prize:  $100, publication online, and publication on a Flashcard that will be distributed with  Sycamore Review  at AWP GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS Submission Deadline:  February 1, 2015 (Contest opens January 1, 2015) 1. For each submission, send a piece of flash fiction of no more than 500 words. 2. A reading fee of $5 (submitted online) must accompany each submission. 3. Additional flash pieces may be submitted for an additional reading fee of $5 for per piece. Please submit each piece individually. 4. Manuscript pages should be numbered and should include the title of the piece. 5. All entries will be read blind. Information that identifies the author should NOT appear on the manuscript itself. 6. All pieces of flash fiction must be previously unpublished. 7. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable only if  Sycamore Review  is notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. 8. Each flash piece wil

Rarely have I walked into a room where I felt an emotional coldness, a sense of dread, abandon all hope. Except perhaps a haunted house. Through the ages there have been rooms. The grand duke Franz Ferdinand had a room devoted to his game hunting skills. Approximately 100,000 trophies were on exhibit at his Bohemian castle. Wealthy industrialists have sought to have rooms reconstructed after the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Henry Clay Frick who made his money from coke (coal) had installed in his Fifth Avenue mansion panels painted by Fragonard, “The Cycle of Love”, with a drawing room designed around them in 1915/16. The boiseries, or painted wall panels, were designed and executed in Paris by Auguste Decour in the Louis XVI style. There have been rooms inspired by Japanese aesthetics or by nature. Frank Lloyd Wright designed his house/studio around a willow tree that would eventually “grow” in the front entryway. Indeed one can easily identify a Wright ro

Ice Skating in Central Park, Agnes Tait Subway . 1934 Lily Furedi Mr. Imagination from Chicago DEATH CART/ George T. López John Ashbery, National Portrait Gallery Countee Cullen, National Portrait Gallery Abbott Handerson Thayer, selected artist of Freer to decorate his foyer

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the largest in North America. There are more than 70 side chapels. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, the Basilica is the nation’s preeminent Marian shrine. the Black Madonna our Lady of Guadalupe St. Louise, patroness of social workers I like the spinning wheel in this one

Whistler Whistler Chicago artist Archibald Motley Jr. living free, Jane in the Sculpture Garden

isn't she beautiful always love paintings of women reading love this guy double exposure, Cape Cod Evening, Edward Hopper Andrew Wyeth, Looking Out, Looking In Whistler James Symphony in White no 1 (The White Girl) 1862. view of Capri, the arch paintings of books Berthe Morisot | The Sisters (1869 Mary Cassatt,  Little Girl in a Blue Armchair Van Gogh flowers

Day 6 Bald Eagle Island hiker/biker – WS host, NW, Washington, DC 20011, approx 60 miles I was so close to my end point. I was super excited to get on the road. I tried to lighten my load by eating a hearty (for me) breakfast. I made a fire and burned paper, the maps I’d downloaded. The Potomac was definitely getting wider and wilder. I had lunch at a lockhouse and Larry caught up. Afterwards I did a power hour where I cycled as hard as I could for 1 hour. I got to Great Falls Tavern visitor park about 1:30. My info said there is a snack bar there, but it is very basic. Not really anything worth buying. At this point I was only 15 miles from DC. After leaving the park the river splits and there is a slip of an inlet between the canal and river. This is VERY scenic. It has for the feel for quite a few miles of a Japanese garden, very serene. Also there are very many more people on the path. Any second I expected to turn a corner and see the Was