Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Notes of the Fiction Selections

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    My whole life, I’ve loved summer. I love the smell of the earth warming, the promise of an afternoon thunderstorm, …
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  2. Passenger

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Heather Bourbeau   He saw how the thinness of her calves was exaggerated by the large shapeless overcoat in …
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  3. Constance, failing

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Shauna Mackay   He comes seldom, sometimes often, there is no pattern to the turn of his key. The …
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  4. Covenants

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Tommy Dean No one knew how the back windshield got cracked, but she loved the way the dying sunlight …
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  5. Stephen

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    July 17, 2018 by The Citron Review

     by Katherine Hubbard The last time I saw him, it was 1989. We sat in a café on Ninth Avenue …
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  6. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    I have recently spent a lot of time thinking about the kind of literature I am drawn to and why. …
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  7. Deep Waters

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Victoria Miller   She is twenty-nine and works in an office, but that’s not important. She enjoys watching classic …
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  8. The Full Circle of Love

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    May 2, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Patricia Fuentes Burns   It has been decades since I’ve gotten up this early, but I learned when raising …
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  9. We the Underserved

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    December 21, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Kathryn Kulpa   We the underserved, the undeserving poor, sitting underground, in the street-level window of an Eighth Avenue …
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  10. I Thought You Were An Anchor in the Drift of the World

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    December 21, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Sara Estes   Amileah is remembering Park’s face, the lines near his eyes, the freckles, his beard, and then …
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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