Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. P Is for Paradise Garden

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by William Woolfit   The letter P descends from the Hebrew פ, pē, from the Greek π, pi, from the pucker …
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  2. Bad Blood

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by William Woolfit   In the woods behind our houses, we were boys crashing through briars, we were girls pressing …
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  3. Before Carnival Cancel and Borders Close

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Camille U. Adams   2020 Smiley’s skin was on the floor when they bust through the door. Her yellow …
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  4. Dear Shannon Moore

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Arin Calaway   Dear Shannon Moore, I haven’t exactly been a lifelong follower of yours. A little over a year …
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  5. Little Devil

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Naihobe González   We call it diablito. Little devil. It comes in a can, wrapped in white paper, with …
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  6. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Again and again reading submissions for The Citron Review proves to me how vital writing and witnessing can be. During …
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  7. Cloudy

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Jarmul   Altocumulus A cloud is hanging over me.  In my first profile photo on Facebook, I was …
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  8. CRONE

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Lori Barrett   Ingredients: water (up to 60%); fine lines (rhytids); not-so-fine lines (wrinkles); sagging skin (wrinkle folds); new …
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  9. Extinguish

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Jared Povanda   The way the bird falls down the chimney, as if the chimney is a mouth, as …
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  10. Mycteria americana

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Liesel Hamilton   I The first time I saw a wood stork, it was in flight. As I floated …
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