Tag Archives: Flash Fiction
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Efficiency measures
1December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Matt Kendrick It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is …
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Bounce, Dance, Dig
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Claudia Monpere The month we are goats, we sleep huddled together. We thrash bushes with our heads. Curl …
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Do My Mom’s Suicidal Tendencies Manifest Now As Unfinished Blankets At The Nursing Home?
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Emily Dressler Under her bed, seaweed sprouts from balls of yarn. It is almost always purple. Before I …
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Promise me something sweet
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Moisés R. Delgado Our mom’s first word to me, and later to Ruby, was eat. The nurses probably …
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I still hear you climbing to the top of my roof
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Kianna Greene You wanted to paint me flowers on the side of my daddy’s old shed, the one …
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Zipping around Lightbulbs
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Laila Amado We danced until the sun went down, until it fell from the sky and dropped behind …
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Told like Scripture
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Trista Hurley-Waxali My parents offered their trailer as a graduation gift. My loan had gone into collections; they started …
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Ride to Nowhere
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Stephanie Reddoch In July’s sticky heat, my neighbor Billy rolls a clothes dryer barrel to the fire hydrant where …
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Ghost Girl Delivery
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Christina Tudor My husband suggests we get a ghost to haunt our house because lately silence stretches between us, …
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Reconciliation Brunch
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Olivia Brochu First Course We break bread over puddles of infused olive oil, tearing at the pillowy insides with …
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