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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
Welcome to our creative nonfiction for winter, a tapestry woven with longing that evokes the tenderest places within us. These …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
Seems significant that on the day of the least daylight, my lamp should go dark. Today on the Winter Solstice, …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
Be kind to me, or treat me meanI’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine– Fiona Apple, “Extraordinary …
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My Father’s Bed
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Chris Pellizzari I visited my grandparents last night in Chicago Heights. They needed me to come over and …
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It Took Us Years to Hear Helicopters Again
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by Justine Sweeney Their distant clap was whipped into our infant milk and fed to us during the night. …
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Desperate, Bright
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by Kate Michaelson Fall is our favorite, my mom and I, both of us born into it. We celebrate …
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Shoulder Season
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Meredith Seung Mee Buse We stop at the bottom of the boardwalk steps to prepare: sneakers and socks …
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Pick Me
December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
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Carson McCullers was not married when she died, but she did tell Tennessee Williams that she had sex with Gypsy Rose Lee
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by Kristen Field She married Reeves McCullers twice.Divorced him twice. Which decisioncarries more weight? He told her on their …
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Matchbooks
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by JoAnna Scandiffio we miss those little souvenirsof where we ate when we were oncein love and kept the …
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