Category Archives: Flash Fiction
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Notes on the Flash Fiction selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
Dear Readers, Happy Solstice. This year as we journeyed into “the big dark” I’ve been reflecting back over the past …
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Told like Scripture
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Trista Hurley-Waxali My parents offered their trailer as a graduation gift. My loan had gone into collections; they started …
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Ride to Nowhere
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Stephanie Reddoch In July’s sticky heat, my neighbor Billy rolls a clothes dryer barrel to the fire hydrant where …
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Ghost Girl Delivery
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Christina Tudor My husband suggests we get a ghost to haunt our house because lately silence stretches between us, …
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Reconciliation Brunch
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Olivia Brochu First Course We break bread over puddles of infused olive oil, tearing at the pillowy insides with …
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Notes on the Flash Fiction Selections
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
I’ve been listening to the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler, each week since it started and at the end of …
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Shed Woman
Leave a commentJune 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Sarah Chin The shed behind my childhood home was locked with three rusted padlocks and a braided cord of …
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Let’s say its the swallows
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Rena Willis Let’s say they’ve returned again. Dipping, twirling, darkening the sky in a chorus of wings that cuts …
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Drought Season
Leave a commentJune 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Elisa Luna Ady In Southern California, we did lines of light. We wallowed sunlit in our hopscotch puddles, paddling …
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On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird
Leave a commentJune 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Kate Horsley Your husband says he’s sleeping on the couch again, and that’s when it happens. You wake to …
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