Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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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