Category Archives: Micro Fiction

  1. The History Tour

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Juliana Gray   You are a tourist among tourists. A bus carries you to Normandy beaches, somehow navigating down …
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  2. Four Pieces of Micro Fiction

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Daniel Aristi   abuelo grandpa at the end had this texture of a WWI biplane – covered in fabric …
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  3. Spinning

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Susan Morehouse   A car sticks in the muddy driveway across from my house. Acrid smoke and spinning wheels. …
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  4. Blood on My Shoes

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    September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Dargan Dodd   There’s always wreckage underneath each step. War came before me, swallowed by years of progress we …
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  5. Photographic Memory #2

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    September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Hun Ohm   Lindos, Rhodes 1996. Acropolis. They had told you to take care when walking the stone path, …
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  6. Pusher

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by John Gifford   Last one picked in seventh-grade baseball and the girls had said they were already going to …
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  7. Guardian

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Andrea Jackson   You told me you would protect me but I see bits of your armor flying overhead …
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  8. Drought

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Beth Mathison   The edge of the field was hard-packed mud, deep ragged cracks gaping under the hot summer …
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  9. 2:12 a.m.

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Dallas Woodburn   Jolt awake. The moon is high and full—she is no longer sleeping beside you. Find her …
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  10. Too Beautiful

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rafferty   Men would pass her in the supermarket and change direction. They followed her — stopping when …
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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