Category Archives: Flash Fiction
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Blue Echo
3December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Leonora Desar My father had see-through skin. My mother and four older brothers looked through him because of …
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Ghost Bike
2December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Kate Sparks People in town called John “Ghost” because he was so pale and because they weren’t very …
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A first rule for sons still engaging in fistfights
Leave a commentDecember 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Drew Knapp A warning–Fights will dent like wick exposed to wax. Slight hollows will form in the hard, …
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Ice Cracks
1September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Jay Merill Winter in the Fens – think of a Christmas-card. Everything with a frosted look. Sky and …
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A Flesh Like Ours
2September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Popa This is for my sisters who were slick with mud, poking the dead baby chick with …
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Moonlight Mile
1September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Nicholas Reali There are places with summers so stifling, rivers wilt to dust, and pocket change melts like …
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Pie
1June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Anna Lea Jancewicz Stepping on copper, walking all sweetfooted through the tender penny wishes, cold water to the crotch. …
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In the Belly
1June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Michelle Lee When I was eight, my brother came home and said: The biggest heart in the world …
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Movement
Leave a commentJune 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Stern The L platform in Chinatown. Midwinter. What I see—a couple under the heat lamp, faces pressed …
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Desert Sand
Leave a commentMarch 2, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Falkner I am not sure what it is you want, Otto, in writing to me like this. …
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