Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Moonlight Mile

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    September 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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  2. Pie

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    June 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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  3. In the Belly

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    June 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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  4. Movement

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    June 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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  5. Desert Sand

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    March 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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  6. In Which I Defend my Decision to Run Away and Join the Circus

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by George Dila   It was an impulse. And impulsivity can be dangerous. A sign of emotional distress. Taking my …
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  7. Sink

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Tina Tocco   On Fridays, my mother calls the Park & Rec. She sits in her kitchen as the …
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  8. Suicides

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by John Carroll   We were ballers then, and knew nothing else. Our uniforms told us who we were. They …
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  9. Night Visitor

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Chaney   There’s asphalt in the curtains. It silts the pillows of the couch Sid knows too well and …
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  10. Typically Brittle and Optically Transparent

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    December 15, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Erica L. Kaufman   Her hands and fingers were always covered in cuts. Scars, too, underneath the cuts. She …
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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