Category Archives: Flash Fiction
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
Leave a commentMarch 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
The legend goes that one day when he was sixteen, my dad bent down to tie his shoes and could …
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Sequestered
1March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Linda Wastila Red velvet shrouds the bedroom windows, cloisters our confinement. Morning? Noon? Does time matter? Beside me, …
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Alone with Others
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by Gordon W. Mennenga When she was born she was twenty-one inches long. She had remembered this fact but …
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City Lights
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by Mark Cassidy We were on vacation, would have been the summer of ’76 or ’77, and we went …
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Freezing Point
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by Star Su His previous girlfriends were slender wicks, all smoke and candied wax. And when he smoothed the …
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Visitation 4
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Kim Parko I come to her home atop the mountain, cross a threshold stained with sienna footprints, enter …
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Keeping Time
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Niles Reddick My great grandmother was in her seventies when her crooked fingers with thin skin hammered chords …
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Dearest Timothy
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Lucy Wilde Dearest Timothy, Perhaps instead I should address this to Tim, the timid boy from Biggar, with …
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A Girl Walks Home in the Snow
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2020 by The Citron Review
by A.M. Henry – One – A girl walks home in the snow. She is coming from: school, the …
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
Recently, I read an article about the physical and mental benefits of reading. The article detailed the theory of mind—the …
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