Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. A Thousand More

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    July 31, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Cheryl Smart   Foxy. That’s what we called her because she looked a lot like a red fox, same …
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  2. Breakfast at IHOP

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    July 31, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Sue Granzella I had followed the instructions in the “Your Colonoscopy” pamphlet and had dressed for comfort. My baggy …
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  3. Buttercream Cake

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    July 31, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Ani Tascian   My dad had just finished what would be the first of three full rounds of treatments …
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  4. Asbury Park, 2008

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by JC Reilly   It’s not like you remember it; the boardwalk deserted except for a few sullen gulls, the …
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  5. Fish Shopping

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Daniel Lassell    We entered the pet shop, shoddy as it was in the center of the urban limits, …
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  6. Family Farm

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by John Messick   The house I where I was raised is not haunted, though as a child I believed …
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  7. Then

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Debra S. Levy   I see her in her blue chenille robe and matching house slippers, standing in the …
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  8. Tilt-A-Whirl

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Demeter Vaisius   How white the snow is and cold. Cold in my hands. I pull up the dirt …
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  9. Blood Bath

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    March 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Marley Andino   My house sits a city block from the Chesapeake Bay—not the bay of picture books, but …
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  10. Collateral Damage

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    March 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Leah Givens “I killed a baby. I killed a baby.” It’s always when you clean out a forgotten closet …
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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