Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Invisible as God

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Jon Pearson   I can see my mother’s legs waiting for something on the stove as I play with …
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  2. Breathing Underwater

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Jon Pearson   I was seven years old and standing on one foot, like the time I saw the …
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  3. The Lennon Room

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Joan Dempsey   The three things that meant the most to him are dead now: John Lennon, his wife …
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  4. Down from Beacon Hill

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ed McCourt   We were walking up the steep, narrow staircase to my Auntie’s apartment on Cooper Street. You …
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  5. Powers of Recollection

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Jessica Green   What were we talking about that night? It was cold. I should have felt cold. I …
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  6. Reimagining FBI Missing Persons Case # 13G176

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Sukach   “I can’t reach my penny,” she said, now as far from shore as her dress would …
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  7. Looking at Young Girls

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Nicolas Poynter   The lights are shrouded by fog that collects near water this time of year, and they, …
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  8. Mattress-Buying

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Meredith Harper   In the grey, hollow warehouse, the industrial lights, shaded in aluminum cones, droop like stalactitic pendants …
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  9. Scratches

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Elizabeth Wade   We were there at the museum in my hometown, the museum named for the man, on …
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  10. Bone Meal

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lindsey Miller   There wasn’t a funeral after Mrs. A—-‘s son died, nor a cremation, and no one spoke …
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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