Tag Archives: Micro Fiction

  1. Wish You Were Somewhere

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Steven Ostrowski    She’s dead but you can drive. You can still do that. Let the rain drive down …
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  2. A Small Menagerie

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Diane Sherlock   She watched a small menagerie parade by: the winged baboon, snakes, a geisha, a nest of …
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  3. A Quick Review of Choices

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Marion de Booy Wentzien   She thinks a lot–no longer about making chocolate chip cookies or homemade applesauce before …
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  4. Not Long Before the House Burned Down

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Holly Baker   Sissy kept a lover in the basement and Junior hid a vagrant in the attic. Mama …
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  5. Editor’s Choice – The Way to Napa

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    October 18, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Andrew Killmeier   On the Carquinez Straits bridge, his motorcycle was sideswiped by a white Honda. He was thrown …
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  6. Pseudocyesis

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    By Emma Eden Ramos   I began to grow nervous when it didn’t kick. “Psst,” I whispered, hand on my …
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  7. Hailstone and Big Band Numbers

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Mark Sutz   Hailstone Constance and Everly were peeling oranges in the kitchen when the hailstone came through the …
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  8. Write a Book

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Ron Riekki   Sign a contract. Get screwed on the contract. Have it be a small press. Have a …
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  9. Leather

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by David Cotrone   Years later, when I was 17, they said in an e-mail that you would get too …
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  10. Monday, October 6th

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Geoff Peck   Ethan stared at the Wall Street Bull’s testicles. Stuck on the island between Broadway and Whitehall, …
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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