Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. How to Get Arrested

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Seth Clabough   for Rosa  Being drunk behind an Appomattox County Burger King at 2 am might do it. …
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  2. The Paper Cut Out of an Explorer

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Honor McElroy   Caribbean, the job fair man says, stirring the faint echo of a college professor’s lecture about …
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  3. The Storyteller

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    By Norma Greenblatt   I once went to a dentist whose mother wrote all the stories ever written in the …
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  4. Ink

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Honor McElroy   Each year my daughter asks the same man to take a needle and a gun to …
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  5. Charlotte

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    July 1, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Rob Shapiro   Tonight, Charlotte sits up in bed when I tell her not to get romantic. She’s featureless …
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  6. chakras of the throat

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    By Sarah E. Caouette    Slender hips like a woman, I envy his skin— soft milkweed, polished, buttery caramel. Trapped …
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  7. Invisible as God

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Jon Pearson   I can see my mother’s legs waiting for something on the stove as I play with …
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  8. Breathing Underwater

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Jon Pearson   I was seven years old and standing on one foot, like the time I saw the …
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  9. The Lennon Room

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    March 5, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Joan Dempsey   The three things that meant the most to him are dead now: John Lennon, his wife …
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  10. Down from Beacon Hill

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ed McCourt   We were walking up the steep, narrow staircase to my Auntie’s apartment on Cooper Street. You …
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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