Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Risk of Elopement

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Marcy Darin   I read the warning printed on paper as cheerily pink as pepto bismol. “High Risk of …
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  2. Et Tu Brutal

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    March 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Ann Stewart McBee    pūnīre akin to poena: penalty, pain Sammie and I were studying vocab, but I kept …
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  3. Profession of Faith

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    March 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by James Claffey   Begotten:  The split feathers of a redtail hawk nestle in the bottom of a dusty wooden …
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  4. Blue Echo

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Leonora Desar   My father had see-through skin. My mother and four older brothers looked through him because of …
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  5. Ghost Bike

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    December 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Kate Sparks   People in town called John “Ghost” because he was so pale and because they weren’t very …
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  6. Pie

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Anna Lea Jancewicz   Stepping on copper, walking all sweetfooted through the tender penny wishes, cold water to the crotch. …
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  7. In the Belly

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Michelle Lee   When I was eight, my brother came home and said: The biggest heart in the world …
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  8. Movement

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    June 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Stern    The L platform in Chinatown. Midwinter. What I see—a couple under the heat lamp, faces pressed …
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  9. Desert Sand

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    March 2, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Falkner   I am not sure what it is you want, Otto, in writing to me like this. …
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  10. Sink

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Tina Tocco   On Fridays, my mother calls the Park & Rec. She sits in her kitchen as the …
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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