Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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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
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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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This is How You Say Conflict
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by Dana De Greff When you’re in a new country, riding in the front seat of a truck passing …
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The Only Place I Could Live Is Here
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by Christina Simon Los Angeles is a place I will never leave, can never leave. My hometown, this metropolis …
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Mothballs
1June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Sayantika Mandal Naphthalene. That’s what my mother says. Moon-white balls holding magic in them, lying on the shelves …
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Notes on the Micros
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He was given a chance, but he just wouldn’t. In an interview the other day, the Vice President of the …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
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While the world provides us with a steady, intravenous drip of heartache, experts tell us to “titrate” these experiences. Slow …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
1March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
Parents. We all have them, in one version or another. The flesh and bone fathers who fed us breakfasts; the …
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