Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Facts I Learned This Month

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Kirsten Reneau   There are moths who will spend a lifetime dodging caterpillar death only to crack open from their …
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  2. Dysphagia

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Mikki Aronoff   Food jumps out of your throat like a frog leaping out of a pond. You try to …
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  3. Continuing Education

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Mary Ann McGuigan   Mama is sitting at the kitchen table, still in the clothes she wore to work, moving …
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  4. On Feathering

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Eliza Hayse   In the spring, I watch feathers float slowly to the ground, riding on wind currents. I envy …
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  5. Notes on the Micros

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    Hey — what’s the small idea? What qualifies me to be the editor of your micros section, anyway? Am I …
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  6. Malocchio

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Stephanie Trott Every Sunday afternoon, I kneel in front of my bedroom window and watch as your family pulls up …
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  7. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    Within the lives of the people who inhabit the Spring 2024 Creative Nonfiction selections are entire universes of experience these …
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  8. Ergonomic Chances

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Sandra Fees   He’s here at the wrong time, the guy with the ergonomic shovel ringing the 8 am …
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  9. Rearview

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Rachel Laverdiere   Mom snores in the passenger seat as I squint into the black night and follow the …
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  10. Porkchop

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Gary Fincke   Because it is Wednesday, your parents and your older sister at choir practice, you have the …
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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