Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. I carry my weight in groceries

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Sophie Nau   I carry my weight in groceries. In a brown paper bag without handles I carry what …
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  8. Ouroboros

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    eat the tail to start again by Kaidi Stroud   What I am about to tell you may sound like …
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  9. On Location: A Valentine

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Gary Fincke   At Griffith Park a few weeks ago, while I tried to convince my granddaughter that hitting …
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  10. Notes on the Micros

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    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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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