Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    As 2021 comes to an end and a new year approaches, I’m thinking about change and challenge. It seems you …
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  6. Praise

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Suzanne LaFetra Collier   In praise of wisteria, withering lavender buds clogging drains, littering lawns. In praise of cool …
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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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