Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. A Flesh Like Ours  

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    September 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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