Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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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
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by Kerry Herlihy 4.Her father has vanished again, maybe onto a tugboat on Lake Erie or into a bottle …
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Notes on the Micros
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Where do inspiration and organization meet? Are they at war? Or is it more of a cooperative struggle resulting in …
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Notes on the Micros
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Spring means baseball. I believe it’s a poetic game. The green expanse, the dust clouds, the quiet waiting for the …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
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In “Autobiographical Notes” from the 1984 edition of Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin turns his attention to how …
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Mr. Fix-It
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by Gabriela Denise Frank My father’s eyes were shit brown. His words. For most of his life, he worked …
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Ricochet
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by Jennifer Lang Gee, what a nice surprise! my 83-year-old father says when he sees me and asks when …
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How to Become a Thinker: a Chinese Room
1March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Wenxin Tang Part I First, you don’t get to see surroundings as they are. The grass is a …
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1996
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by Tom McAllister In eighth grade, we read Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men; I spent …
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Ugh, Uub.
Leave a commentMarch 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Shakirah Peterson Where the Black people at? I ask the Black man next to me. He’s playing DragonBall …
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