The Conium Review — Multiple Authors

This volume of "The Conium Review" features new fiction from Olivia Ciacci, Tom Howard, D. V. Klenak, Jan LaPerle, Zach Powers, Christine Texeira, and Meeah Williams. In these eight strange and surreal narratives, you'll find a company that sells knight-in-shining-armor-style happy endings, a boy with a second person trapped inside of him, a contemporary fable with a chickadee protagonist, and more. The pieces include flash fiction, short stories, and novella-length fiction.

This issue includes "American Rag Story," by Tom Howard, winner of "The Conium Review"'s Innovative Short Fiction. The contest was judged by Manuel Gonzales, author of "The Miniature Wife." Manuel called Tom's story "funny and tragic and formally interesting."