Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Pink, but Deeper

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by John Janelle Backman   The whole dream was as black as his helmet. We stood over a lake, at …
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  2. M.A.S.H.

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Dani Blackman   Dani Blackman received her MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work has …
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  3. You Still Wouldn’t Trade It For Another Lap Around

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Abby Alten Schwartz   You call up memories of your Gen X childhood with a smidge of pride that you …
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  4. Notes on the Micros

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been watching our dwarf sunflowers get accolades from neighbors who want to say one …
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  5. Summer

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Fran Blake   High grasses (we set them afire each October and watch small pieces of orange break off …
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  6. Mourning Dove

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Melissa Goodnight   When my kid goes to school and my husband goes to work, I stand in my dimly …
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  7. WORDGAME

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Candace Cahill   1209 words can be made from the letters in RELINQUISHMENT; here are 12.   Semen The seminal …
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  8. Blood Sugar

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Jacqueline Goyette   Coffee cakes and rhubarb pies and oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies, homemade. Candy in my pocket, emptied out …
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  9. All That Risk

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Jess D. Taylor   Two summers ago I took a break from my boyfriend and took solace in the cool …
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  10. an index of desires

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    December 29, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Allya Yourish   There has been an abundance of thinly veiled yearning. Yearning as a constant state of being. Yearning …
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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