Category Archives: 2020
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Things that Don’t Belong in a Microwave
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Linnea Cooley My brother and I gain the freedom to stay home alone a few years before we …
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The Bell Dings
1September 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Lina Lau and I leave a part of me behind, the part that shuffles with dropped chin, downcast …
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Found Objects
1September 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Phebe Jewell Deep in the stacks of the Young Adult Graphic Novels section, I get to work. Sure, …
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Sonder
1September 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by L. Soviero My neighbor’s got a thing for mannequins. Pass his house any hour of the day and …
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Carousel
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Holly Hagman The Atlantic City summer tastes of salt and stale cigar smoke. On the boardwalk, the flat …
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Weltschmerz
2June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Eileen Vorbach Collins The Adirondack chair, until late, nothing more than a quaint decoration, has become my observatory. …
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Running on Empty
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Marlene Olin The summer after eighth grade, Dad’s bookie got busted. My parents panicked. Dad thought what little …
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re·turn
1June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Sarah Cedeño /rəˈtərn/ v. 1. Having dreamt of her husband again, after so long, almost chronically lying beside …
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Clothesline
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Erin Jamieson I hang mama’s dress on the clothesline careful not to crease the cotton, willing the sun …
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Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by John Linstrom Darkling seed, paper-thin, consider all the growth you’ve seen: a shriveled tab three aphids wide erupted …
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