Tag Archives: The Citron Review

  1. Black Raspberry Chip

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Liza Ruggiero   I had this strange, untraceable feeling – it had been a raw, rainy 49-degree day, after …
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  2. Ash

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Amy Simmons Farber   The slow draw of fury coils into my lungs, so stealth I don’t recognize the …
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  3. Do You Remember Being Eight?

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Jodi Plaia   I stand at the edge of the playground after school, watching a constellation of third graders, …
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  4. D.

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Kilch Gaffney   Yours was not my first death, my grandfather’s heart having stopped a year or two …
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  5. Hermit Crab at Low Tide

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Maggie Hart   At low tide, the water pulls back and leaves everything splayed out and exposed, kelp ropes …
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  6. It Doesn’t Budge

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Kelly Pedro   After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler …
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  7. Downstairs Party

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Zary Fekete   She knocked on our door the afternoon of the party. When I opened it she has …
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  8. Shades of Boy

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Rebecca Klassen   As my brother and I walk from our home to the train station, he says a …
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  9. The Man In Neon

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by Nick Marino   He wanders in the reddish dust and yet his skin shines greenish, pale like oiled fish. …
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  10. The Last Time My Father Spoke Myth

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    June 30, 2026 by The Citron Review

    by J. Camp Brown   My father was well versed in the lore of the Ozarks.  We’d left those mountains …
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