Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. The Long Walk North

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Caitlyn Kinsella She was brought into the country under the whispers of rough voices and the smell of motor …
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  2. Playfighting

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Luke Dunne   Alert, as ever, to the possibility that it was all a game, you snatched my favourite …
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  3. Heart

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Allison Field Bell   Peonies: the thickening bunch of them. Petals unfurling, gaping wide open to the sun. Pornographic …
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  4. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    In June I celebrate my wedding anniversary with my husband. We’ve been together for over half my life at this …
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  5. Boris

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jackie Sabbagh When I was still a boy and studying abroad in Oxford for my junior year I met an …
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  6. A Glimpse of a Different Skyline

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Laila Amado   Bicycles roll by the window, wheels spinning, silver needles catching light. In the puddles, skyscrapers are …
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  7. Under the Heavy Moon

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    June 30, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jenny Stalter   We’d grown old enough that our husbands had died. Old enough for our love to become …
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  8. Most Recent Relapse of a Former Perfectionist

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Karen Lozinski   The day I baked myself into existence was a messy one.  I had to redo my …
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  9. Alice by Kim Sook

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Alice Stephens   I begin as Kim Sook, pliant and tender as freshly risen dough. Separated from my mother …
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  10. Pluck

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    May 27, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Katherine James Katherine James is a writer and maker based in rural Virginia. She holds an MFA in Creative …
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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