Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Dog Bites God

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Mario J. Gonzales   For Tomas Because it’s taboo she refuses to speak his name. I have taken to …
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  2. Close Reading

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Al Bray    Every morning, if he watches with one eye over the upper edge of the book, a …
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  3. What Tall Man Says

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Grant Clauser   Banshee Coming Down the Road  Corn snake belly-up on a dirt road. We step over it. …
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  4. The Water Is Wide

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Matthew Brennan   The fine, misted rain drifted sideways in long columns as it fell, glittering down onto the …
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  5. Boneyards and Other Places to Sleep

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Jen Ferguson   In your third home there is burnt jiffy pop. Metal shelves sagging under the weight of …
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  6. The Witch Woman’s Daughter

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Kate Falvey    Onie and I were only nine and I could not understand the stakes in such big-boy …
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  7. Cut of Fever

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Sara Henning   I have seen women in their forties talk of surrogates, turkey basters, one night trysts in …
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  8. The Blackness Between Stars

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Olivia Dean Guise    He tells me from now on he only wants to go places he’s never been. …
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  9. Centerfold

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rammelkamp    I’d seen The Graduate, so I knew what Mrs. Sheridan was doing when she asked me …
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  10. Incidents

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Moffett   I didn’t know you were still in there when I opened the front door. I just …
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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