Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Snacktime Gastronomy

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    June 20, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Rosenthal   My guilt was the stone pit at my overripe center. All I wanted was all of …
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  6. My Breath Catches in My Skull

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    April 4, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Ariel Gore   D stands at the edge of her bed and lets me suck her cock. I like …
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  7. Leaving a Mark

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    April 4, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Miah Jeffra   (after Felix Gonzalez-Torres)   There is a billboard. A white bed in a white room, rumpled …
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  8. I Think

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    April 4, 2016 by The Citron Review

    by Gwen Beatty   The first thing I ever did wrong was kiss a boy and the second was give …
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  9. The Tree of Hearts

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Ann Tinkham   I remember the day I froze myself. I had just started wearing bras and Kotex pads. …
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  10. The Way

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Chris J. Rice   Hot, even with the windows open. Gritty sand filled air blew into our hair and …
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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