Category Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. The House Across the Street

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Sacha Bissonnette   My wife thinks that bad things happen in the house across the street. She’s told me …
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  2. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    My boys and I are currently reading Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier. The series centers on the end …
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  3. Mirror Face

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Kim Magowan   Josie disinvites Cora to Thanksgiving—that’s how Cora finds out Amy is visiting San Francisco. “Sorry, Mom,” …
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  4. Everything You Loved Is Here, When Are You Coming Home?

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Timothy Boudreau   In the morning Rebecca writes in the sky with her daughter’s colored pencils. Draws a top-hatted …
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  5. Shine in Her Light

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Sabina Y. Wong   Come with me, and I’ll take you places, she whispered after another magical evening. The …
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  6. The Loved Ones Who Haunt You in Technicolor Still

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Lynn Mundell   ApparitionBobby, the boy your parents fostered until he began running away. He had an old yellow …
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  7. Spinning by Candlelight

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Marianne Villanueva   One late winter night, in a humble dwelling built of thick sod and grass, a wife …
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  8. 2.84 Ounces

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Kavi Yaga   A woman in front of me at the grocery check-out line told me she had given …
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  9. Cotton

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez   The night I met the love of my life, I started dreaming about the …
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  10. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    What is magic? Magic is dreaming. Magic is fantasy. Magic is speculative. When we think of magic, we think of …
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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