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Settling the Score
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

by Carolyn Pledge-Amaral The house on Cottage Road came with its own soundtrack—a full LP, not a forty-five, or …
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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Carolyn Pledge-Amaral, Creative Nonfiction, Settling the Score, Summer 2023, The Citron Review
Never Marry a Wounded Bird
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

by Marie Manilla It was surrounded by beachgoers, the maimed gull. An elderly couple beneath a beach umbrella eating …
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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Marie Manilla, Never Marry.a Wounded Bird, Summer 2023, The Citron Review
Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

Summer again. More light and heat for those of us in the Northern hemisphere and, I find, within these longer …
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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction, From the Editors | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Notes on the Creative Nonfiction selections, Ronit Plank, Summer 2023, The Citron Review
Notes on the Micros
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

Sometimes we’re lucky to find a handful of pieces that seem as if they were made for one other. Each …
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Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, From the Editors, Micros, Poetry | Tags: JR Walsh, Notes on the Micros, Summer 2023, The Citron Review
Yielding
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

by Angie Wright I sit at the cherry writing table my son handcrafted for me in that year when …
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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Angie Wright, Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2023, The Citron Review, Yielding
Middle Distance
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June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

by Beth Kephart She was a teen when the matter of her leg became the matter of a tumor …
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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Beth Kephart, Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2023, The Citron Review
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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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Love and Desire Issue, RL Farr, The Citron Review, The Science of Distancing
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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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Love and Desire Issue, RL Farr, The Citron Review, The Science of Distancing
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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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Fetal Kicks During a Blue Book Exam, Love and Desire Issue, Sally Simon, The Citron Review
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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Category: 2023, Creative Nonfiction | Tags: Creative Nonfiction, Helen & Harold at the Kitchen Table with Lobsters, Love and Desire Issue, Shana Graham, The Citron Review

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