This volume of The Conium Review features eleven new stories from Jessica Roeder, Samantha Duncan, Liz Kellebrew, Kate Gies, Shane Jones, Kathryn Hill, Emily Koon, Jasmine Sawers, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, and Maryse Meijer. A woman falls in love with a giant banana, a tiny goat takes up residence in a woman's left ventricle, a ghost tour goes awry, and more. Readers will delight in this collection's absurd settings, dark humor, and inventive language.

This issue includes "The Mother," by Kathryn Hill, winner of The Conium Review's 2016 Innovative Short Fiction...

A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts).