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. It’s 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

 

Table of Contents

 

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