Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Hexapoda

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Murvin   You wait until class is over and everyone else has asked their questions, left the plain classroom …
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  2. The Nature of Rowhomes

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Susan Barr-Toman   I sat alone in bed reading a novel about trees, how they are interconnected invisibly, how …
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  3. Who we are now

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman   November 7, 1994, 11:49 pm: The man on the other end—whom I assume is the funeral …
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  4. H-O-R-S-E

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Michael Fischer   My first time shooting hoops at Dorothea Dix Hospital is with Mr. Reed, a young …
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  5. Antipasti

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Mary Slowik   Brisk Sometimes you can work for years to understand something. And sometimes things come together in …
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  6. Notes on the Micros

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

      Today I’m going to a house between 10am and 4pm to pick up a bottle of award-winning marinade. It …
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  7. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    In a summer where the world seemed to open up a bit there was a window in which it almost …
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  8. The Artist

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Anne Gudger   The artist layers mountain with meadow, craggy basalt grey rock, steel wool clouds, oyster clouds, whispers …
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  9. Here nor There

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Kay Ugwuede   The year opened like a whirlwind romance. One month, I was sitting at meetings trying to …
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  10. The Garden

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Whitney Lee   Today, I spent three hours digging a bed for lilies––my muscles depleted and sore. On my …
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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