Tag Archives: Flash Fiction
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How to Come Out to Your Mom
Leave a commentApril 29, 2026 by The Citron Review
by Nora Esme Wagner Don’t bring your girlfriend to Thanksgiving. In one month, you will discover the naked photos …
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In the murmuring dust
Leave a commentApril 29, 2026 by The Citron Review
by Garrett Milligan In the murmuring dust, a factory’s son wants to collide again. He longs to run after …
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Grounded
Leave a commentApril 29, 2026 by The Citron Review
by Jo Saleska Adam and Eve sit on a grassy knoll watching the sun melt into the horizon. Many …
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God is Sleeping in the Attic
Leave a commentApril 26, 2026 by The Citron Review
by B.C. Brock “We have to be quiet today,” Mama used to say on Sundays. “That’s when God takes …
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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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