{"product_id":"the-conium-review-vol-9-9781942387169","title":"The Conium Review: Vol. 9","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Conium Review: Vol. 9\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of \u003cem\u003eThe Conium Review \u003c\/em\u003eincludes \"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 \u003cem\u003eNot a Thing to Comfort You\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 story's sly and surprising voice, the way it skipped along in a wry wistful way and then plunged in the knife.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Conium Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942387169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.36d","brand":"Cassidy McCants","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38213552177333,"sku":"9781942387169","price":10.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a51250bb-0c74-48a8-a3eb-d879366a573a.jpg?v=1610441630","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-conium-review-vol-9-9781942387169","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}