Tag Archives: The Citron Review

  1. Train Conductor

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Duff Allen   Before he threw himself he’d said passing through the cabin, “Every door’s an exit.”   Duff …
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  2. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    When summer hits, we often think of escaping our day to day, traveling to new, more exciting places, or even …
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  3. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    From my hotel window, a striated sky threatens downtown Tampa. I am here for a week on business (scoring essays …
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  4. Kitchen Denizen

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    By Anna Kelley   It’s become absurd to imagine how others breathe air unadorned with scorched garlic— devoid of pungency, …
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  5. Anubis

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Nathan Elliott   A couple of weeks ago, my son’s kindergarten teacher asked her class what the children aspired …
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  6. The Shuttered House

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    By Rochelle Jewel Shapiro   It’s mid-afternoon, but from somewhere, an owl hoots. Once overturned bikes were thrown down on …
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  7. Badass Comes to Town

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Julie Turley   Our studio apartments were attached, the porches so close together, the whole place looked staged. My …
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  8. How to Blink

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by DL Shirey   I’m nose to nose with a guy who has a neck tattoo. It wouldn’t be fair …
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  9. Blood Quantum

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    by Danielle Hale   /bləd ‘kwän(t)əm/ noun a biological system that commodifies culture. half of my mother’s lineage added to …
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  10. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    June 22, 2017 by The Citron Review

    Subtext. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter describes the term as “the unspoken, the suppressed and the secreted.” A …
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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