Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. If We’d Only… Well, We Might Have

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Elissa Field   The sky had cleared out over the Gulf and we leaned, each of us, on the …
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  2. Stone Fruit

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Lindy Biller   In the beginning we were figs. Teeth broke our skin, sinking into our flesh like a …
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  3. Tunnel of Love

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Meg Pokrass   We’re in the Tunnel of Love when my sister says she is stuck there. She’s in …
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  4. Baby Nails Can Scratch the Inside of the Uterine Sac

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Tara Van De Mark   It sounded like the scooping of soft rocky road ice cream on a hot …
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  5. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    Picture a ball of yarn, tumbling down a set of stairs and unwinding over each step. This compact, delightful shape …
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  6. Mother Tongue

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Kik Lodge   On the train, a girl licks the window and her mother tells her to stop licking …
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  7. Meara, Can You See the Light?

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Michelle Hulan   Gianna was seven when she saw her first dead person, and by sixty-two she’d helped thousands …
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  8. Quiet

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Cristi Donoso   There is a man, I say to myself, because I’ve taken myself out to lunch, two …
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  9. Mare Autisma

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Joe Kapitan   On the dark side of the moon stands this town much like ours, this house like …
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  10. Purse Tooth

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Julia F. Green   The tooth had been in her purse for years, since the day it fell out …
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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