Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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I carry my weight in groceries
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by Sophie Nau I carry my weight in groceries. In a brown paper bag without handles I carry what …
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Ouroboros
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eat the tail to start again by Kaidi Stroud What I am about to tell you may sound like …
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On Location: A Valentine
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by Gary Fincke At Griffith Park a few weeks ago, while I tried to convince my granddaughter that hitting …
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Notes on the Micros
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Out here in our beloved Western city, it was a hard year to grow anything. Our apartment’s patio was hopeful …
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A Stream of Prayer
2June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar When my family in India sleeps, I recite Aayat-e-Karima, a verse from the Quran, counting …
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Barefoot Diptych
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Rachel Laverdiere Click here to read the poem in the original formatting. Rachel Laverdiere writes, pots and teaches …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
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In her autobiography All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou says, “The ache for home lives in all of …
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Companion
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by Jennifer Ronsman It was 2:30 am in the summer of pandemic nightmares when I saw you from the …
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Disdain Forward
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by Jen Rouse What if I start the story here, today, in a room with 15 people, a Dialectical …
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mother
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Kerry Herlihy 4.Her father has vanished again, maybe onto a tugboat on Lake Erie or into a bottle …
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