Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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Yielding
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by Angie Wright I sit at the cherry writing table my son handcrafted for me in that year when …
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Middle Distance
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by Beth Kephart She was a teen when the matter of her leg became the matter of a tumor …
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Nightlight
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by Sophie Ezzell A week after you move to Oklahoma for graduate school, you buy a nightlight. You’ve never …
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The Science of Distancing
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by RL Farr Biology His kitchen. Grey hesitant light. Morning at the second story twin house in the suburbs …
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Fetal Kicks During a Blue Book Exam
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by Sally Simon Dr. Herman stares at my basketball belly as he hands me the exam questions and a …
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Helen & Harold at the Kitchen Table with Lobsters
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by Shana Graham The whole house smells of piss and must and bleach. Bookshelves lined with Vonnegut, Updike, old …
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One For Your Mother
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by Annie Marhefka On Sundays, we clean, my mother and I, while the boys do yard work with our …
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Girls
1April 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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On Landing
Leave a commentApril 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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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentApril 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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