Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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Lord, Make Me Farfalle
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Angela Townsend Lord, make me farfalle. For too long I have been curled in upon myself. St. Augustine diagnosed …
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Belle-Mère
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by Sandra Carlson Khalil When I think of her, I think of figs in Baalbek, growing in the shade of …
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On Faith’s Lips
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Mariam I. Williams The day she converted me from fat seven-year-old with an overbite and gapped front teeth …
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Lost in Translation
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Pinto True Biz (adj./ exclamation; ASL): Really? Seriously? Yes, really I am nine and my mother is on …
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It is the Responsibility of the Teacher
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
(after Grace Paley) by Emily Brisse It is the responsibility of the teacher to shift the desks, arrange the …
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Ninetyish
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Debbie Piercefield My youngest daughter (who is twenty-nine) announced on her last visit home that she needs me to …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
In her memoir Motherland, Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramón explores the collapse of her homeland and the loss of her family as …
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Mole Poblano
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Kathryn Jankowski Splashy with color and promising a horticultural paradise, garden catalogues once lured me into purchasing plants better …
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Brixton Born and Dreaming
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by Felix Bill Brixton born and dreaming, I live in stolen weekends. Back where I belong for just long enough …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
OK, friends. With the new year about to start I’m setting my reading goals now. Said goals will be based …
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