Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Empty Enough

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    March 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Katie Holiday   My mother took me to her hometown in mid-July. As I was driving through the center …
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  8. Regimen

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Melissa Grunow   My bare legs are itchy, and I can feel the abrasive fibers leaving an impression in …
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  9. Haunted

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by AprilJo Murphy   We believed in ghosts then. At night, huddled over Ouija boards, we’d try to speak with …
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  10. Play Date

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Hillary Leftwich   My son has a play date today with a boy named Abraham. This means Abraham’s parents, …
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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