Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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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