Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Instructions

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Meg Thompson   If I am ever in a car accident, I tell my husband, it will be during fall …
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  2. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    I will always choose Fall as my favorite season. Growing up mostly in the New York area I thrilled to …
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  3. Window Seats

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Navneet Bhullar   Train calling out in the night. Inside, mild chatter hums in the orange bulb’s glow. Dad reads …
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  4. Notes on the Micros

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    I was thinking about when David Lynch on his Youtube channel says, “I was thinking about…” and he tells us …
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  5. Surface Tension

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Maxon   Too early for the fog to lift and crowds to wake, walk alone on the beach …
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Bath Receipts 

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Bria Winfree   When I first got to the foster house, bathing was hard. I could usually bathe my …
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  9. 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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  10. 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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