Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Surrender at the Korean Store: A Silent Film, Starring Kenny Kenny Kenny

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Zenith Knox After closing up Dad’s barbershop, I head to Ju-hee’s store, my ritual every evening of every summer. …
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  2. Baton

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    April 26, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Amita Basu Head held high, baton swinging like a child about to launch into orbit, Anuragi strides across the …
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  3. Trailing Light

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Lisa Alexander Baron We are horses chomping at our bits in a moonless night stable with our sable eyes …
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  4. We Must Come Out

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Cynthia Ajuzie They roll over. Tucking their chins into their necks, curving their spines like commas, raising their butts …
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  5. What I Can’t See

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Melanie Maggard Since they’ve turned the abandoned K-mart into a laser tag, there’s nothing else that makes Margot happy. …
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  6. Daughter Fish

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez Most of the time, my daughter’s a fish. A rainbow trout: turns of silver-red-blue spinnering translucent depths. …
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  7. The Long Walk North

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Caitlyn Kinsella She was brought into the country under the whispers of rough voices and the smell of motor …
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  8. Playfighting

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Luke Dunne   Alert, as ever, to the possibility that it was all a game, you snatched my favourite …
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  9. Heart

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Allison Field Bell   Peonies: the thickening bunch of them. Petals unfurling, gaping wide open to the sun. Pornographic …
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  10. Boris

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jackie Sabbagh When I was still a boy and studying abroad in Oxford for my junior year I met an …
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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