Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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Collateral Beauty
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Lang When a fellow passenger offers to play musical seats so that a father can sit in …
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Speak to Me
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Christopher Rabley “She’s dead. … Mum’s dead.” My brother and I sat on either side of my father, …
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Filling the Gaps
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Jessica Clements When you ask if I took a gap year, we are in the cafe, cradling mugs of …
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Chosen
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Battisti Outside, the rain against the playground is heavy and decisive. Small rivers are forming in the …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
As I write this, I look out my window on the downtown Houston skyline. I see the George R. Brown …
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Smoke in the Water
1October 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Mandy Shunnarah The lazy river curves in its oval trajectory—curves expected, built into its form. Nothing like my …
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Salted Wound
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Mandy Shunnarah We amble on a Dead Sea beach where in place of sand is crystalline salt, like …
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An Elegy for Your Cat
38October 2, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Charles Kaufmann There’s a term for when, half-awake, you feel your cat jump up on the bed, as …
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Córdoba, Argentina
Leave a commentJune 22, 2017 by The Citron Review
By Lillian Kwok In Córdoba, I lived in a house with ten girls and one bathroom. We lit the …
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Anubis
Leave a commentJune 22, 2017 by The Citron Review
by Nathan Elliott A couple of weeks ago, my son’s kindergarten teacher asked her class what the children aspired …
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