Tag Archives: The Citron Review

  1. Joyride

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah Starr Murphy   The classroom was filled with the residual stink of teenaged boy bodies and a mouse …
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  2. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    Summer 2020 is a tumultuous time in our nation’s history and the world. Not one person has emerged unscathed, and …
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  3. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    It has finally happened: my boys have discovered video games. In February, my oldest pulled together his savings and birthday …
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  4. Soft Palms

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by JR Rhine   There have always been those who’ve known soft palms, to whom the earth has never reflected …
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  5. Notes on the Micros

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    He was given a chance, but he just wouldn’t. In an interview the other day, the Vice President of the …
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  6. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    While the world provides us with a steady, intravenous drip of heartache, experts tell us to “titrate” these experiences. Slow …
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Oarfish

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Anna Gates Ha   I am eleven when I go with my mother’s sister to see the beached oarfish, …
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