Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Dog Streets

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Joseph Alan Hasinger   The streets in our neighborhood never belonged to us. Everything about them was canine. The …
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  2. Intruder

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Sean Walsh   In the middle of the night, Cody woke up to get a glass of water and …
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  3. Tinsel

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Gabriella Brand   We shouldn’t be surprised. Not really. It was there in all the old photos. You can …
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  4. The Garden

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Kat Kambes   We always had tons of tomatoes in the yard, end of summer. Was my job to …
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  5. Clean-Up on Aisle Sixteen

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Mureall Hebert   I spotted him at the back of the grocery store. I’d been poring over steaks, trying …
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  6. Recognizing Ugly

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    March 17, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Bruce Holland Rogers   Way too early in the morning, Cathy made her way to the chair by the …
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  7. Happy, Free, Alive

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Lacy Marschalk   It wasn’t true, what they said, about your life flashing before your eyes as you died. …
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  8. White Lies

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Tawnysha Greene   When I lie about whether I’ve washed my hands, cleaned my room, Momma whips out a …
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  9. sadness is contagious, but happiness is harder to recover from

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Kate Maruyama   Two T-shirts, one sock, five CDs, three mournful mix tapes (maybe I should have known when …
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  10. Rabbit

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Winona Wendth   The vessels at her temples pulsed. Pressure, then pain. Then submission: The nurse found someone to …
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