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This Tenuous Atmosphere is a linked series of surreal, speculative fictions. This innovative and lyrical narrative follows Asia, a Korean girl who becomes a hybrid spacecraft and goes to live among the ghost men and their culture of destructive capitalism in space. In this story of adoption, identity, and belonging, Asia never forgets her longing to return home and find her mother, but she is torn between loyalty to her port of origin and a desire to explore deep space.

The Conium Review: Vol. 10 includes new fiction from Lori Sambol Brody, Samuel Clark, Ted Hayden, Aimee Herman, Erica Kent, Kaleena Madruga, Lyndsie Manusos, and Cassidy McFadzean. A giant mirror hangs above a city and exposes private moments; two siblings mix and match pieces of their bodies; a lucky couple wins a vacation in a haunted castle. Lyric and surreal, these pieces traverse themes of intimacy, dependency, and isolation.This volume of The Conium Review includes "The Sky Saw Us," by Ted Hayden, winner of the 2021 Innovative Short Fiction Contest. The contest was judged by Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other and Nudes. Elle says "In ''The Sky Saw Us,'' all the loss of one''s life becomes stored inside the body, where one reflects on it forever."

Five Places You Meet Fifteen-Year-Old You grapples with the fragility of memory, the ravages of chronic illness, plenty of youthful regrets, and unbridled hope for the future. It's a surreal, strange, and deeply moving trip into a narrator's psyche while her fifteen-year-old self tags along -- with the simultaneous curiosity and nonchalant sarcasm you might expect from a teenager.