Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Stronghold

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    December 15, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Mary Kudenov   On another day we will walk this path again like it’s a dream. Cottonwood drift will …
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  2. Television

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Suzanne Farrell Smith   The evening our father died, my sisters and I did something we were not normally …
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  3. Roadkill Self-Portrait

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Alicia Catt   This is the highway of dead things: eighty miles and two lanes of barren winter cornfields …
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  4. Clone

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Kelly Miller   Look at this, he says, pointing one leg of the small table toward me. This isn’t …
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  5. Stories of Longing

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by April Selley   Twenty-five years ago, Harjit from India and I met on a guided tour of France, and …
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  6. Succumb

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Jim Ruland   If there’s someone at the show whose drunkenness is so extravagant that you overhear people talking …
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  7. Sorry For Your Loss

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Anthony Santulli   After Apples to Apples, the four of us raise our stooped bodies off the couch and …
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  8. Block

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Emma Burcart   I had a first sentence yesterday. But I didn’t sit down and write it, so it’s …
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  9. The Pine Effect

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Andrea Spofford   We drove the five toward Hollywood because you were bored and visiting and wanted tourism. You …
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  10. Bologna

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Sheila Meltzer   I still hate bologna. Bologna schlongs hanging from the rafters at Katz’s, pre-sliced plastic supermarket bologna, …
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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