Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. We Search for Ghosts Even Where We Know We Cannot Find Them

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Kirsten Clodfelter   My father calls me a woman now, a burden I must have somehow inherited from you. …
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  2. Neighborhood Watch

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ray Shea   A dead hummingbird lay in the road like a broken Christmas ornament, lustrous green wings against …
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  3. What I Look for in a CNF Submission

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    October 31, 2011 by The Citron Review

    Wit, creepiness and awkward intimacy. I love memoir that contains emotional risk like Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir Chronology of Water and …
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  4. How to Survive the New York Asshole

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Rachel Hurn   Move to New York. New York is where assholes live and where non-assholes go to become …
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  5. Losing Them

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Talya Jankovits   I lost track of how many of them I lost before I conceived her in a …
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  6. Hallelujah

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Gina Corso   It will be an explosively sunny day, music cranked so loud the speakers will vibrate. The …
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  7. So I Dropped a Trojan Snagged from Health Class

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Angela Rydell   All the hard laughter. It scrapes, as if laughter’s a kind of rape. Even Tony Antonio, …
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  8. The Persuasion of Earth

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Brittany Michelson The mid day heat had ceased. The sun left only thin warmth, long golden rays spraying across …
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  9. Lost and Found

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Laura Gardner   Three Mexicans come into my bar, one leading, nodding to the others to come in. They …
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  10. Fictional Author

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    September 12, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Rhodes   I don’t care if it sucks, if my book sells or if you bother to read …
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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