Category Archives: Micro Fiction

  1. Buried

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ramona Ostrowski   She pulls the dress from the hamper before dumping the other clothes in the washer. A …
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  2. Wish You Were Somewhere

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Steven Ostrowski    She’s dead but you can drive. You can still do that. Let the rain drive down …
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  3. A Small Menagerie

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Diane Sherlock   She watched a small menagerie parade by: the winged baboon, snakes, a geisha, a nest of …
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  4. A Quick Review of Choices

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Marion de Booy Wentzien   She thinks a lot–no longer about making chocolate chip cookies or homemade applesauce before …
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  5. Not Long Before the House Burned Down

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Holly Baker   Sissy kept a lover in the basement and Junior hid a vagrant in the attic. Mama …
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  6. Editor’s Choice – The Way to Napa

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    October 18, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Andrew Killmeier   On the Carquinez Straits bridge, his motorcycle was sideswiped by a white Honda. He was thrown …
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  7. Pseudocyesis

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    By Emma Eden Ramos   I began to grow nervous when it didn’t kick. “Psst,” I whispered, hand on my …
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  8. Write a Book

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Ron Riekki   Sign a contract. Get screwed on the contract. Have it be a small press. Have a …
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  9. Leather

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by David Cotrone   Years later, when I was 17, they said in an e-mail that you would get too …
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  10. Any Sense at All

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Zapata   On March 15th 1979, Juan Cortazar disappeared from Jorge Rafeal Videla High School in Buenos Aires. …
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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