Category Archives: Fiction

  1. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    December 21, 2019 by The Citron Review

    A few weeks ago, my youngest said the greatest words he has ever uttered: “Mama, I want to read all …
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  2. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    September 23, 2019 by The Citron Review

    Summer went by entirely too quickly for my family. As I write this, I am in disbelief that fall truly …
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  3. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    June 21, 2019 by The Citron Review

    Summer has always felt like a reward. Summer means more sunshine and more play, less school and work. While I …
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  4. We Have Vultures Now

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Dakota Canon   The soldiers think they own us. Their guns give them authority and arrogance. Last night they …
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  5. Freedom

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Andrea Marcusa   When the deep freeze thawed, the woman, who’d been imprisoned for months in that dank basement, …
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  6. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    I am not a big fan of winter, to be completely honest. The days are short and cold and dark, …
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  7. Enfold

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Tara Isabel Zambrano   After his death, my husband lives in the walls and fixtures of our home. They …
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  8. He Died We Left Him Til Morning

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Christopher Gaumer   We laid him down, forty pounds of beagle. We took shovels; the earth opened easy, like …
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  9. Notes on the nominations

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    Bear with me; I’m new here. I should always lead with this, perhaps with a please in front. After all, …
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    Category: 2018, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, From the Editors, Micro Fiction, Poetry | Tags: , , , , ,

  10. In the dark, everything looks like nothing

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Francine Witte   1. At some point, my parents were young and happy. I have the photo to prove …
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IMAGE CREDIT: Jill Katherine Chmelko. Protest Road, Winter. 2019.

🍋Our Tenth Anniversary

 

    Cheers to ten years of celebrating the short form.

 

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DS Levy's Micro Fiction takes us to "Babyland" where nothing is as you might expect it. The Citron Review Winter Issue overflows with surprises! https://citronreview.com/2019/12/21/babyland/ DS Levy's chapbook of flash fiction, @a_binary_heart, was published by @flpbooks.
Congratulations to Citron's Online/Fiction Editor Jr Walsh for his recent publication in Nunum's Winter 2019 Volume 2, Issue 4! #flashfiction #fiction #briefliterature #amreading #SundayRead #jrwalsh #yourfavoriteactor
Can you talk with animals? "The Soldier on the Mountain" just might have to. Come hike this #flashfiction odyssey from @BlerianaMyftiu with us. https://citronreview.com/2019/12/21/the-soldier-on-the-mountain/ Bleriana Myftiu is from Tirana, Albania. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University and is a Fiction Reader for @atticusreview. Visit blerianamyftiu.com
Our first poem of 2020 comes from Richard Foerster in our New Winter Issue. https://citronreview.com/2019/12/21/first-poem/ #amreading #poetry Foerster’s eighth collection is Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019)
Pacific Northwest writer @savannahslonewriter reminds us of our new year's resolutions in "i want to start a podcast but." https://citronreview.com/2019/12/21/i-want-to-start-a-podcast-but/ Slone is the author of several books including the forthcoming An Exhalation of Dead Things (@clashbooks, 2021), Hearing the Underwater (@flpbooks, 2019) and This Body is My Own (@ghostcitypress, 2019)
Happy New Year to readers and contributors from @citronreview! Here's to 2020! Our Winter Issue is up at citronreview.com.

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