Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Nightlight

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sophie Ezzell   A week after you move to Oklahoma for graduate school, you buy a nightlight. You’ve never …
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  2. The Science of Distancing

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by RL Farr   Biology His kitchen. Grey hesitant light. Morning at the second story twin house in the suburbs …
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  3. Fetal Kicks During a Blue Book Exam

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sally Simon   Dr. Herman stares at my basketball belly as he hands me the exam questions and a …
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  4. Helen & Harold at the Kitchen Table with Lobsters

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Shana Graham   The whole house smells of piss and must and bleach. Bookshelves lined with Vonnegut, Updike, old …
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  5. One For Your Mother

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Annie Marhefka   On Sundays, we clean, my mother and I, while the boys do yard work with our …
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  6. Girls

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Hallie Johnston   December 31, 2004. Parking lot. Fiesta Bowl Stadium in Phoenix, Arizona. Minutes before the Fiesta Bowl …
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  7. On Landing

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sujash Purna   Sweltering Sylheti air isn’t helping enough with the sticky shirt on my back. I can’t grow …
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  8. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    To read the nonfiction selections for Spring is to step into worlds that brim with the particular and closely-watched: the …
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  9. Didn’t break itself

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Christine Nolan   Hands reach for cheesy fries, smothered in bacon and ranch, in the middle of the booth. …
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  10. In Script

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Gina Ferrara   Mrs. Vujn, was gigantic. She towered over the rows of desks, each desk hitting just above …
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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