Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Cara

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Mark L. Keats   I first asked my mother the question of where babies come from when I was …
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  2. Remaining

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Alan Stewart Carl   After bringing Jane, my mother-in-law, home from the VFW, she led me into what she …
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  3. Confounding Variables

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Michael A. Kiggins   In 1990, with a full-ride to Memphis State awaiting him, Bryan Meigs left Ladue, an …
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  4. Sinking into the Earth

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    By Sarah Kravitz   Nick mistook the sound of the whispering engine for wind rising out of the canyon or …
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  5. How to Get Arrested

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Seth Clabough   for Rosa  Being drunk behind an Appomattox County Burger King at 2 am might do it. …
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  6. The Paper Cut Out of an Explorer

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Honor McElroy   Caribbean, the job fair man says, stirring the faint echo of a college professor’s lecture about …
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  7. The Storyteller

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    By Norma Greenblatt   I once went to a dentist whose mother wrote all the stories ever written in the …
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  8. Ink

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Honor McElroy   Each year my daughter asks the same man to take a needle and a gun to …
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  9. Charlotte

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Rob Shapiro   Tonight, Charlotte sits up in bed when I tell her not to get romantic. She’s featureless …
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  10. chakras of the throat

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    By Sarah E. Caouette    Slender hips like a woman, I envy his skin— soft milkweed, polished, buttery caramel. Trapped …
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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