Category Archives: 2026
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Grief, Part I
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor I filled the mantle with cliché messages of condolence, sympathy, loose words like embrace instead of …
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Grief, Part II
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor It fell, plop! to the floor, a thirsty palmetto bug in August, trying to stay alive. …
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Grief, Part III
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor Like a child who says tickle me, tickle me, yet burns in her gut. Why does …
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Grief, Part IV
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor I put its little mound in the sock drawer but it insisted on going for a …
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Grief, Part V
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor I let it suckle from breasts until my nipples bled. I shared dreams with it, cut …
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32 Degrees Exactly
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Jeffrey Hermann I’m walking home in the rain when the rain turns to snow. It floats down and …
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Helen Mckenzie
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Peter Krumbach Here is the micro in its original formatting. Peter Krumbach is the author of Degrees …
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Psalm
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Samantha Marie Daniels Baptized by the firstrainy day of the season—I’m looking for you,O Lord, but I can’t …
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After
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Phillip Sterling Here is the micro in its original formatting. Phillip Sterling’s books include Lessons in Geography: …
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Notes on the Flash Fiction selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
Dear Readers, Happy Solstice. This year as we journeyed into “the big dark” I’ve been reflecting back over the past …
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