Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. How to Sleep

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    September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Vivian Witkind Davis    Lie on your left side, fitting yourself to your sleeping husband’s back. Slip your right …
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  2. The Sundowner’s Keys

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by J.D. Knight   When my grandfather lost his keys, he insisted my cousin had hidden them in the attic. …
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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