Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Her Kingdom Come

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Kristen Zory King   There was a funny turn to Mother’s mouth when she saw the ants each summer, …
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  2. Found Objects

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Lorette C. Luzajic   We were on the outskirts of Libson. We walked and walked and walked, when we …
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  3. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    March 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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  4. Sequestered

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    March 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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  5. Alone with Others

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    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Gordon W. Mennenga   When she was born she was twenty-one inches long. She had remembered this fact but …
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  6. City Lights

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    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Mark Cassidy   We were on vacation, would have been the summer of ’76 or ’77, and we went …
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  7. Freezing Point

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    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Star Su   His previous girlfriends were slender wicks, all smoke and candied wax. And when he smoothed the …
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  8. Visitation 4

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    December 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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  9. Keeping Time

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    December 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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  10. Dearest Timothy

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    December 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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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