Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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This is How You Say Conflict
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Dana De Greff When you’re in a new country, riding in the front seat of a truck passing …
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The Only Place I Could Live Is Here
1June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Christina Simon Los Angeles is a place I will never leave, can never leave. My hometown, this metropolis …
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Mothballs
1June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Sayantika Mandal Naphthalene. That’s what my mother says. Moon-white balls holding magic in them, lying on the shelves …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
He was given a chance, but he just wouldn’t. In an interview the other day, the Vice President of the …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
While the world provides us with a steady, intravenous drip of heartache, experts tell us to “titrate” these experiences. Slow …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
1March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
Parents. We all have them, in one version or another. The flesh and bone fathers who fed us breakfasts; the …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentMarch 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
Everything’s too big. If the number is written down, the writer stops writing, starts crying. Again. The deaths multiply in …
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Opera Dad
1March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Claire T. Lawrence 1. Of the few things I know about you the most important is this: you …
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Opera Mom
2March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Claire T. Lawrence Mothers in opera are notoriously, theatrically bad. Azucena throws a baby, which turns out to …
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Taste: A Brief Memoir with French Toast and Popcorn
Leave a commentMarch 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Cal Freeman My father made French toast by dipping Wonder Bread in milk and egg yolk then browning …
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