Tag Archives: Micro Fiction

  1. Start Again

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Alyssa Jordan   Hope can be dangerous, her father told her during those nights under starlight, when he taught …
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  2. Unmoored

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Virginia Eggerton   I’m not as sure of the ground now as I was when I was smaller. Now, …
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  3. Transfusion

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Virginia Eggerton   You have become so heavy that walking is stooping, carrying alveoli fat like grapes. They rattle …
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  4. Your Girlfriend as a Radium Watch Face

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Cathy Ulrich   She will be the ticking hand, the shining numbers, the one, two, three, click of seconds …
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  5. Dresser Drawer

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Mangle   Sarah lives in a dresser drawer, the one with the mismatched knob shaped like a bumblebee. …
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  6. Sign of Life

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    December 21, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by Sean Pravica   Her neighbor’s husband died. She knocked on the door. No answer. The house was two stories, …
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  7. Babyland

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    December 21, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by DS Levy   They cling to shepherd’s hooks, these dirty grey teddy bears. Hanging from butcher’s string, they look …
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  8. Notes on the Micro Fiction Selections

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    September 23, 2019 by The Citron Review

    With wet palms, overwhelming nausea, we drive blind to kingdom come. Stragglers are left beneath the beating sun. At an …
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  9. I Try to Get Out of the Way So the Soul May Draw Near

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    September 23, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by Mary Morris   But I keep tripping on steps in the earth, get lost in my mother’s skirts, and …
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  10. Swirling Debris

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    September 23, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera   She stands on the corner, only one young man next to her. His headphone bass …
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Lake George photograph by Stieglitz, 1896

Alfred Stieglitz. Meeting of Day and Night, Lake George, 1896. The Art Institute of Chicago