Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Notes on the Micros

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    German philosopher and critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno wrote: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It’s oft-quoted, misquoted, embraced, …
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  2. BUSTED!

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Shifra Sharlin   In the first nine months of 2020 when I was being treated for breast cancer, through …
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  3. The Serpent’s Tale

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Fallon   I sat in a green plastic chair on our brick patio, sipping a glass of white …
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  4. Like a Little Beach

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by James Morena   I never wanted to teach. Never played teacher and student, commanding kids to sit in Scholar, …
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  5. something about this silence feels holy 

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Kristian O’Hare   The first rain in months finally begins to let up as I make my way towards …
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  6. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Welcome to Creative Nonfiction for Spring 2022! Co-editor Charlotte Hamrick and I were awestruck by the Citron submissions we received …
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  7. Hunter

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Luke Larkin   My grandmother showed me her ghost once. We were sitting on the porch of the house …
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  8. Unfathomable 

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Pavle Radonic   Sitting by the radio during the war must have been something similar, premier dan here in …
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  9. Childhood Memories from a Handful of Months After My Mother Died 

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Amy Lyons   Cartoons and sit-coms; boxed snack cakes; barbecues in an overgrown backyard; public pool cannonballs; beach trips …
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  10. The Art of Brutalism

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Amy Cipolla Barnes   April 21, 1995  The Greyhound bus is gray. The skies are gray. The Murrah Federal …
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