Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

  1. Quiet

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Cristi Donoso   There is a man, I say to myself, because I’ve taken myself out to lunch, two …
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  2. Mare Autisma

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Joe Kapitan   On the dark side of the moon stands this town much like ours, this house like …
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  3. Purse Tooth

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Julia F. Green   The tooth had been in her purse for years, since the day it fell out …
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  4. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    After nearly five years of editing this journal, I am still be surprised by our depth of submissions. We read …
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  5. Socked In

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    Photo by Hillary Degani. by Kathryn Silver-Hajo   Thirty days and thirty nights we stayed in bed while the wind …
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  6. In Leaping

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Mandira Pattnaik   Sometimes, standing before the mirror, Leia would say she felt like a grasshopper. Say this to …
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  7. How to Deadhead Hydrangea

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Elizabeth Schmermund   Prune only after the rich blooms have paraded under your window and then have turned paper-thin, …
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  8. In The Garden

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Melissa Benton Barker   I painted a small room lavender. You caulked the windows. A baby cried. I planted …
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  9. Goldmouth

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Cameron Green We grew up learning to lie—to strangers, each other, our mothers’ faces. We grew up laughing and …
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  10. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    In my corner of the northeastern United States, we haven’t exactly hit Spring yet. The shores of Lake Ontario aren’t …
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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