Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Lord, Make Me Farfalle

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Angela Townsend Lord, make me farfalle. For too long I have been curled in upon myself. St. Augustine diagnosed …
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  6. Belle-Mère

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Sandra Carlson Khalil When I think of her, I think of figs in Baalbek, growing in the shade of …
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  7. On Faith’s Lips

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Mariam I. Williams   The day she converted me from fat seven-year-old with an overbite and gapped front teeth …
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  8. Lost in Translation

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Pinto True Biz (adj./ exclamation; ASL): Really? Seriously? Yes, really I am nine and my mother is on …
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  9. It is the Responsibility of the Teacher

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    (after Grace Paley) by Emily Brisse   It is the responsibility of the teacher to shift the desks, arrange the …
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  10. Ninetyish

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Debbie Piercefield My youngest daughter (who is twenty-nine) announced on her last visit home that she needs me to …
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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