The Conium Review

<p>This volume of <em>The Conium Review</em> features nine new stories from Emily Koon Tamara K. Walker Rita Bullwinkel Marina Petrova Kayla Pongrac Ingrid Jendrzejewski Zach Powers and Theodora Ziolkowski. The pieces include a mix of flash fiction and short stories each with a penchant for innovative characterization bizarre settings and other weirdness. You’ll discover a dictator in a jar a modernized fairy tale a person living as a Tinseltown extra and more.<br /><br />This issue includes "The People Who Live in the Sears" by Emily Koon winner of of <em>The Conium Review</em>'s 2015 Innovative Short Fiction Contest. The contest was judged by Amelia Gray author of <em>Gutshot</em> <em>THREATS</em> <em>Museum of the Weird</em> and <em>AM/PM</em>. Amelia called Emily's story "a little George Saunders a little Don Barthelme but best of all a lot of its own thing the neon Jazzercize glory of the 80s going up like the asbestos-fueled fire it features."</p>