Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    October 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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  2. Smoke in the Water

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    October 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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  3. Salted Wound

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    October 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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  4. An Elegy for Your Cat

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    October 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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  5. Córdoba, Argentina

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    June 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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  6. Anubis

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    June 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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  7. How to Blink

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by DL Shirey   I’m nose to nose with a guy who has a neck tattoo. It wouldn’t be fair …
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  8. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    Subtext. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter describes the term as “the unspoken, the suppressed and the secreted.” A …
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  9. Whatever Will Be

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Alice Lowe   My father drove slowly up the hill, silently, his annoyance at having had to leave the …
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  10. Relief

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Jiaying Lim   I would imagine my parents dead, or dying, from a head-on collision with a car with …
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