Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Yellow

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Lisbeth Prifogle   My first memory of war is yellow. Yellow is warm and happy. War is death and …
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  2. Window

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Christine Hale   In the backyard of my parents’ house where I lived from birth until I married at …
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  3. Layover

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by D. Gilson   Tulsa to Minneapolis to Missoula to Seattle. My mother, a formidable woman of thrift, booked this flight …
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  4. Cheap

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by P.J. Sambeaux   My mother would only go to the  laundromat in the shittiest part of town, across the …
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  5. I Borrowed a Knife

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Devin Galaudet   I borrowed a tent, a tarp and a big hunting knife for the trip to the …
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  6. Side Trips in the Interior

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Tara Deal   The stonecutter in the gutter next to the shop that sells mosaic tabletops to tourists who …
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  7. Matches

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Tyler Koshakow   We all knew Cheryl was into more than just the cigarettes that she smoked in the …
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  8. Buying My Blue Dress

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    December 15, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Helen Ruggieri   The day I bought my blue dress, I imagined a Guatemalan woman looming it with her dark …
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  9. Sulfur

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    December 15, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Thea Autry   She smells differently since the funeral, since the nephews and nieces she hadn’t seen in 17 …
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  10. An Apology

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    December 15, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Glenn Erick Miller   The Friday night after Thanksgiving, we had all been shuffling through the new snow from …
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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