Category Archives: Micro Fiction
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Black Ice
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2019 by The Citron Review
by Christine Baerbock There’s a woman who prays, lips on knuckles, for her children, her husband. She does it …
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Spring Wedding
1March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review
by Helen Chambers We marry in a blur of froth; Queen Anne’s lace dancing our tune, and unfurling fiddle-heads …
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White Wedding
1March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review
by Helen Chambers Grey day; warm for the season. ‘If anyone knows any reason…’ intones the priest, hearing the …
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Immaculate
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2019 by The Citron Review
by Anne-Marie Hoeve Spoons. You say you’ve bought new spoons. They are nice, but what’s wrong with mine? “Too …
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We Have Vultures Now
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
by Dakota Canon The soldiers think they own us. Their guns give them authority and arrogance. Last night they …
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Freedom
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
by Andrea Marcusa When the deep freeze thawed, the woman, who’d been imprisoned for months in that dank basement, …
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
I am not a big fan of winter, to be completely honest. The days are short and cold and dark, …
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He Died We Left Him Til Morning
2December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
by Christopher Gaumer We laid him down, forty pounds of beagle. We took shovels; the earth opened easy, like …
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Notes on the nominations
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
Bear with me; I’m new here. I should always lead with this, perhaps with a please in front. After all, …
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Loose Change
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2018 by The Citron Review
by Dakota Canon Elisa shuffled down the block, turning up her collar to the bitter wind. Outside her favorite …
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