Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. It Explodes

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Christy Tending   Did you know that when you pour water onto a can full of boiling oil, it …
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  2. Porca Miseria with Knife

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Maura Alia Badji   For Alfonso Congilosi & Carmine Starnino   A genius of the curse, epithet spat in …
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  3. P Is for Paradise Garden

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by William Woolfit   The letter P descends from the Hebrew פ, pē, from the Greek π, pi, from the pucker …
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  4. Bad Blood

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by William Woolfit   In the woods behind our houses, we were boys crashing through briars, we were girls pressing …
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  5. Before Carnival Cancel and Borders Close

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Camille U. Adams   2020 Smiley’s skin was on the floor when they bust through the door. Her yellow …
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  6. Dear Shannon Moore

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Arin Calaway   Dear Shannon Moore, I haven’t exactly been a lifelong follower of yours. A little over a year …
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  7. Little Devil

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Naihobe González   We call it diablito. Little devil. It comes in a can, wrapped in white paper, with …
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  8. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Again and again reading submissions for The Citron Review proves to me how vital writing and witnessing can be. During …
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  9. Cloudy

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Jarmul   Altocumulus A cloud is hanging over me.  In my first profile photo on Facebook, I was …
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  10. CRONE

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Lori Barrett   Ingredients: water (up to 60%); fine lines (rhytids); not-so-fine lines (wrinkles); sagging skin (wrinkle folds); new …
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