Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction selections

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    June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Amid the upheaval and turmoil that can so often feel inescapable these postmodern days, basking in the creative nonfiction for …
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  6. Northern Lights

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Marin Sardy When I remember Girdwood I remember two places: Girdwood in summer, Girdwood in winter. One is green …
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  7. A Poem

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Hannah White Rifling through my father’s belongings in his trailer days after he overdosed. His army gear: a tactical …
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  8. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    The creative nonfiction in this issue speaks to the unanswered, the missing, and what we are left with when those …
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  9. Notes on the Micros

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Just curious: Why did you click on this? Is it a peek behind the curtain that you desire? An accident, …
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  10. In Heaven and Earth

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Susan Gilbert Guerrant For a long time I thought the snow saved me. I believed that my daily sojourns …
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