The Conium Review: Vol. 9

The Conium Review: Vol. 9 contains new fiction from Heather Cripps Lucy Duggan Pearl A. Griffin Kelly Hill Trista Hurley-Waxali Kanya Kanchana Juliana Lamy Cassidy McCants Erin Piasecki Devin Porter Xenia Taiga and Miranda Williams. Shrieking mermaids men in trapped in bottles and a boy with a glass arm. These pieces personify inanimate objects delve into epistolary prose and fragment a narrative across excerpted conversations and text messages. Filled with equal parts humor and melancholy this collection is a literary delight.This volume of The Conium Review includes The Things I Took from Your House by Cassidy McCants winner of the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest. The contest was judged by Emily Wortman-Wunder author of Not a Thing to Comfort You. Emily says the winning piece . . . stood out with the way its innovative form mirrored and reinforced its arc and helped to nudge out new corners of its characters. I loved this storys sly and surprising voice the way it skipped along in a wry wistful way and then plunged in the knife.