Category Archives: 2023

  1. A Dahlia or Something

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Tina Kimbrell   The nurses have turned the TV in my mom’s room to a constant loop of nature …
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  2. Lessons Learned

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Katy Goforth   The sound of waves sends uneasiness throughout my body, settling in my nerve endings and flicking …
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  3. How I Lose Him Before I Lose Him

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Lisa K. Buchanan   After an absence of twenty-nine years, my mother walks into my father’s living room without …
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  4. Spice

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Barbara Phillips   Boarding an airplane bound for the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Fiesta – decades after the iconic poster …
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  5. Instructions

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Meg Thompson   If I am ever in a car accident, I tell my husband, it will be during fall …
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  6. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    I will always choose Fall as my favorite season. Growing up mostly in the New York area I thrilled to …
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  7. ADRASTEA

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by JM Huck   When neongas was discoveredin the 1800sthose statelychemists marveledat their Aurora Borealisin a bottle. Now Jupiter’snorth and …
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  8. Three dot fail

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Cole Beauchamp   Jenna knew when those three dots on her screen kept flashing in sequence, like the chase …
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  9. Perhaps somewhere in Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Donna Shanley   My hand condemned her. I made the strokes proudly. On the wall, she lived. I smeared …
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  10. granite

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Karen Donovan     Karen Donovan is the author of Aard-vark to Axolotl, a collection of tiny stories and …
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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