Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Present Tense

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Heather Rick   A return and an afternoon. Blocks of time, cut and dried, set aside for the duty …
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  2. Count of Blessings

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lhea J. Love   There isn’t much to say. The father of my firstborn is much more than the …
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  3. In Concert

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Susan Hodara   I am sitting in the seat, in the row, in the theater. My husband is beside …
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  4. Beautiful Again

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lalanii R. Grant   The moment I met Evan I knew we would fuck. We took Astrology together; he …
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  5. Floodwaters

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lucy James   We were back to country living. My mom couldn’t drive. My dad was a truck driver …
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  6. Banded

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Meghan MacNamara   The night I first met Betty I was stunned at how well she looked, what little …
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  7. American Dogwood, ’96

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Joseph Alan Hasinger   In Roanoke, Virginia, on my street and throughout the neighborhoods that branch from it, dogwood …
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  8. “Banking Day” by Edward Hopper

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Merry Speece   December, and here I am, just moved in, and I need a new bank account. I’d …
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  9. She’s Italian

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Allyson Armistead   We flew down I-74 toward the tornado, ignoring state officers and traffic cones and cloud—now hemophiliac—now …
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  10. The Wild Things

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Melba Major   My earliest memory is of watching the 1931 version of Frankenstein with my father when I …
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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