Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Billboard Man

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Liz Breazeale   Off this sinewy vein of Missouri highway among rib-curved hills a billboard screams:   Sodomy Is …
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  8. Robot Doctor

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Kelsey Lueptow   “Adam’s hands are dirty, mumma,” my son explains as he packs blue Play-Do under his fingernails. …
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  9. Passages

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Abbott   I dream I can’t sleep. Dad’s footsteps echo down the hallway. The floorboards creak in the …
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  10. Who Then Can Be Saved

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Estlin McPhee   The summer I was twenty-­two I moved back home to my parents’ house to sleep for …
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