Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. For a Limited Time Only

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Sharon Goldberg I don’t believe in soulmates but if you think I’m yours, great. I clench my teeth when …
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  2. Motel on the Edge of Everything

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Dawn Miller I remember the motel on the outskirts of town—brown-bricked and unexceptional, the neon sign by the highway …
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  3. I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Brooke Middlebrook The best part about living in the Anthropocene is not being sure what will come next, epoch-wise. …
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  4. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction selections

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Perhaps one of the greatest gifts of creative nonfiction is the invitation this genre offers to explore forgotten parts of …
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  5. We Fed the Birds

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Donna Obeid We did it every morning and every night. We did it in honor of the god of …
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  6. Barbie’s Blue Leather Case

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Tamara MC   Twenty hours stretch between Tucson and Mazatlán, Mexico on a highway that never ends.  Hour one, …
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  7. A River in Seven Parts

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Mizuki Yamamoto   The Charles. I am three years old and I speak two languages. Three if you count …
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  8. Clinging

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Hare Our bodies are curled up in her bed, a quilt of dancing hexagons up to our chins, …
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  9. Solely Survival

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Maura Aradia The sun sticking its hands into the windows of my sedan at 7am forces me awake. I …
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  10. How I Knew Him

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Raima Evan I called my grandfather Zayde, but I thought of him as the Cookie Grandpa. The sugar cookies …
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