Category Archives: 2022

  1. The Proper Way to Peel an Orange

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow   Nobody cares about the orange, let alone the proper way to peel it. The wealth …
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  2. Why It Doesn’t Hurt When You Say I’ve Changed

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Stephanie Grand   Because I know exactly what Heraclitus meant when he said that no one ever steps in …
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  3. Portrait of My Father Upon His 70th Birthday

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Stephen D. Gibson   One-eyed man, old and alone. He grins with perfect porcelain dentures, with the smooth shine …
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  4. Too Much

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Kelly Q. Anderson   A marriage can end over morning coffee while waiting on Google results for criminal defense …
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  5. Crossover

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Naomi Kim   A border is a squiggling trip wire on a map, and I skinned my knee falling. …
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  6. Cathedral

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Gary Percesepe   She wore a navy-blue cape and carried an umbrella. The lights from our hotel shone on …
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  7. The Problem With Not Owning a Ladder

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rafferty   People head home under all sorts of circumstances – the road made blurry by a third …
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  8. Lives of Truffles

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Alison Hicks   Homing, it’s called, when fungal hyphae attract other hyphae fuse and branch to form a spreading, …
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  9. Pass Once Unknown

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Marvin Shackelford   I had fallen madly in love with Anna from the English department, but I’ve always struggled …
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  10. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    As 2021 comes to an end and a new year approaches, I’m thinking about change and challenge. It seems you …
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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