The Conium Review: Vol. 7

This volume of The Conium Review features nine new stories from Suzanne Burns Chelsea Harris Emily Wortman-Wunder Sonal Sher Matt Kolbet Bridget Apfeld Anita Goveas Alison Closter and Christopher James. Readers will find a mermaid addicted to over-the-counter supplements a never-ending race disappearing limbs and other wildly imaginative tales. With deft prose these stories reflect on obsession longing and loss.This volume includes The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River by Emily Wortman-Wunder winner of The Conium Reviews 2018 Innovative Short Fiction Contest. The contest was judged by Maryse Meijer author of Heartbreaker and Northwood. Maryse says The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River is a moving meditation on parental and ecological grief an exceptionally accomplished examination of losses big and small. Restrained precise and wise the author shows us how in the attempt to save something we risk losing everything.