Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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A Passed-Down Story
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Jenna Devany Waters My daughter comes home from school with an assignment. “Ask your parents to tell you …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2022 by The Citron Review
After forty-some (increasing emphasis on some) odd years on this planet, in this body, I have realized that I’m not …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
When it comes to Micros, we’re not the only game in town. And thank goodness. We have to decline an …
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Benediction
1September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Nancy Huggett What can I tell you about John, the third and oft-forgotten child? As a baby, he …
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It Explodes
1September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Christy Tending Did you know that when you pour water onto a can full of boiling oil, it …
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Porca Miseria with Knife
1September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Maura Alia Badji For Alfonso Congilosi & Carmine Starnino A genius of the curse, epithet spat in …
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P Is for Paradise Garden
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by William Woolfit The letter P descends from the Hebrew פ, pē, from the Greek π, pi, from the pucker …
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Bad Blood
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by William Woolfit In the woods behind our houses, we were boys crashing through briars, we were girls pressing …
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Before Carnival Cancel and Borders Close
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Camille U. Adams 2020 Smiley’s skin was on the floor when they bust through the door. Her yellow …
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Dear Shannon Moore
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
by Arin Calaway Dear Shannon Moore, I haven’t exactly been a lifelong follower of yours. A little over a year …
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