Author Archives: The Citron Review

  1. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    In June I celebrate my wedding anniversary with my husband. We’ve been together for over half my life at this …
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  2. Boris

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jackie Sabbagh When I was still a boy and studying abroad in Oxford for my junior year I met an …
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  3. Notes on the Micros

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    Hey — what’s the small idea? What qualifies me to be the editor of your micros section, anyway? Am I …
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  4. In a Minor Key

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Barbara Siegel Carlson   As Queen Anne’s lace stirsin a late day summer breezealong one side of the bog …
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  5. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    I’ve been getting up and going out early in the morning with the puppy, but even at 6am it’s already …
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  6. Malocchio

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Stephanie Trott Every Sunday afternoon, I kneel in front of my bedroom window and watch as your family pulls up …
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  7. A Glimpse of a Different Skyline

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Laila Amado   Bicycles roll by the window, wheels spinning, silver needles catching light. In the puddles, skyscrapers are …
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  8. Under the Heavy Moon

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jenny Stalter   We’d grown old enough that our husbands had died. Old enough for our love to become …
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  9. A Salt Pact

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Julie Esther Fisher   A ceremony with your three daughtersYou held our ankles, dangled usoverboard, made uskiss the seaa …
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  10. Freshwater Pearl Rush, 1897 – 1903

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Sandy Longhorn     — Lower White River Museum State Park Once, they bent and rakedthe mussel beds with handsgone to …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025