Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Boxed In

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    December 22, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Lang   “Hey, so have you bought a plot yet?” our friend Seth asks as we round the …
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  2. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 22, 2016 by The Citron Review

    Precision is one of many things that we look for in submissions at Citron. Precise, controlled language is important in …
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  3. Falling and Flying: Rediscovering Language

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    December 22, 2016 by The Citron Review

    By Maxima Kahn   I go out into the dark and the deep, I go out in the deep night. …
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  4. Consequences

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    December 21, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Fred Maus   1. On Fire Yesterday I roasted red peppers on my gas grill. I turned them over …
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  5. Sardines

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    October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Fliss   The sea is so small, it fits in my hand. With a turn of my wrist, …
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  6. When Stars Killed

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    October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Corrina Carter   After the Titanic sustained her fatal injury but before she entered her stern-to-the-sky death throes, crew …
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  7. Notes on the CNF Selections

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    October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review

    Our lives are full of triumphs and tragedies, both large and small, personally and globally, which become the stories we …
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  8. Guilt

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    October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Patricia Newbery   I still hear them, the thumps, slaps and grunts that preceded his exit from his brief …
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  9. The Act of Writing

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    October 3, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Mona Dash   I imagine you come here with expectations. You want to hear tales, of the sari, of …
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  10. Roy

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Amber Foster   I learned about Roy’s death long after I’d left the Bay Islands of Honduras. I never …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025