Summer 2016: Citron Six
Letter from the Editor
On the first day of summer we bring you Citron Six, an expanded summer issue with six picks in each genre. Launched on the longest day of the year, this issue brings you lush stories about the complexity of summer. The writers in this issue travel across the nation by highway and train; they stop in cities, music venues, and cafes, and they come back home to live and love. These are stories, as Adrienne Rich wrote, that explore the wreck. These are stories that resurface with a new understanding.
In April there was so much joy at Citron when we published The Queer Issue. Itβs now June. This month we celebrate Pride while at the same time we are mourning the mass shooting at Pulse in Orlando that killed 49 people and wounded 53 more. All of this is with us on the first day of summer. We have a lot to explore as a nation.
On behalf of The Citron Review, we thank you as readers and writers for sharing your stories with us, and for listening to the stories of the contributing writers.
Angela M. Brommel
Editor
The Citron Review
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Table of Contents
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Rachael Levitt |
Folds | Micro Fiction |
Claire Guyton |
Waiting | Micro Fiction |
Claire Guyton |
Unwritten | Micro Fiction |
Megan Cassidy |
New License | Micro Fiction |
Zebulon Huset |
Hanging in the Doorway | Micro Fiction |
Celeste Chan |
City of Metallic Heat | Micro Fiction |
G. Evelyn Lampart |
Fire Sale | Flash Fiction |
Shelley Senai |
Sing It True | Flash Fiction |
Kate Vander Wiede |
Close Like We Used to Be | Flash Fiction |
Kelsey Englert |
Don’t Throw Away This Time | Flash Fiction |
Andrea Eberly |
Tiny Whirlpools | Flash Fiction |
Babak Lakhomi |
The Closet-Woman | Flash Fiction |
Estlin McPhee |
Who Then Can Be Saved | Creative Nonfiction |
Kelsey Lueptow |
Robot Doctor | Creative Nonfiction |
Amber Foster |
Roy | Creative Nonfiction |
Liz Breazeale |
Billboard Man | Creative Nonfiction |
Sarah Rosenthal |
Snacktime Gastronomy | Creative Nonfiction |
Sarah Abbott |
Passages | Creative Nonfiction |
Jim Daniels |
The Miracle of Sacred Hearts | Poetry |
Jim Daniels |
Secret History of Depression Gulch | Poetry |
Judith Cody | Willie Nelson’s Guitar | Poetry |
Nate Pullman |
How to Avoid Depression When Leaving Paddy’s Irish Pub | Poetry |
Jesse Breite |
Lucille | Poetry |
Jesse Breite |
Son House | Poetry |