Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Notes on the Flash Fiction selections

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    April 29, 2026 by The Citron Review

    Lately I have been really enjoying stories with unreliable narrators.  Movies, tv shows, books, all my media consumption has had …
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  2. How to Come Out to Your Mom

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    April 29, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Nora Esme Wagner   Don’t bring your girlfriend to Thanksgiving. In one month, you will discover the naked photos …
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  3. In the murmuring dust

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    April 29, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Garrett Milligan   In the murmuring dust, a factory’s son wants to collide again. He longs to run after …
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  4. Grounded

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    April 29, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Jo Saleska   Adam and Eve sit on a grassy knoll watching the sun melt into the horizon. Many …
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  5. God is Sleeping in the Attic

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    April 26, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by B.C. Brock   “We have to be quiet today,” Mama used to say on Sundays. “That’s when God takes …
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  6. Notes on the Flash Fiction selections

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    December 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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  7. Told like Scripture

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    October 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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  8. Ride to Nowhere

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    October 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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  9. Ghost Girl Delivery

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    October 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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  10. Reconciliation Brunch

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    October 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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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025