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Need to Know Basis (redacted edition): a 2014 poetry, flash fiction & shorter prose collection book front cover

    Enjoy the 2014 poetry, flash fiction & shorter prose collection book from Scars Publications, titled “Need to Know Basis (redacted edition)” of select short prose in this one-of-a-kind 2014 annual poetry, flash fiction & shorter prose collection book, which contains select accepted writings chosen from 2014 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

    For the 2014 year, Scars Publications decided to release (because they had received so many good pieces of varying lengths of prose from both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine) two poetry & prose collection books - one of short prose, and one of longer fiction... So for Scars Publications collection book collectors out there, you can pick up the short short prose collection book Need to Know Basis (redacted edition), the poetry and longer prose collection book Need to Know Basis (extended edition), and for shorter prose, the “need to know” 2015 literary date book...

 
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Scars Publications short prose in

Need to Know Basis
(redacted edition)    
the Scars 2014 short prose collection book

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    To know exactly what is included in this collection book, view the listing below... If your writing or artwork appears in this collection book (or if you know someone with material in this book, or if you just want to pick up a great book to read), order a copy of Need to Know Basis (extended edition) today!

    





below is a listing of the accepted writers and titles
(of writing or artwork) in this collection.

all artwork printed inside the book is in grayscale,
and asterisked items also appear in the 2015 Need to Know 2015 literary date book.

AUTHOR TITLE

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Paul Bellerive A Myth, Perhaps
The Talebearer Speaks in Whispers
Bill Kroger Fire on Peavine

poetry

Andrew H. Oerke A Cave *
Erren Kelly Train To Lyon *
Rachel Park Summer nights *
Kennita Ballard Ebb and Flow *
George Gott Observation
Mr. Kung Says
Persona
Mel Waldman Oblivion *
Peace Activists
Dust
Joshua Copeland The Book of Britney
Linda M. Crate a romance spoiled *
David Michael Jackson The Fate of the Bloggers
Kelley Jean White MD Lent *
Linda Webb Aceto Six of One.... *
Ralph Monday Moonbows, Crucifixions and Incarceration *
Frederick Pollack Allegory of the Poet
Devon Sova The Party *
Rex Sexton This is not a poem *
Roger Cowin This Life Brought to You By... *
Jerry Pendergast Proving Points *
Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt A Monarch in the Prison Yard *
Peter LaBerge art Warm Rods
MCD Red White and Blow *
David Hernandez An Escape
Mike Brennan Dinner Reservations *
CEE Think About It...
    How Do We Really Know? *
Andrew L. Miller Shadow Key *
Matt Quinn Crispy Christians (aka Fundamentalists) *
George Arthur I Had So Much Faith *
David Michael Schmidt Finger On The Trigger
Jane Stuart Summer Short Poetry *
Rose E. Grier photography Basking
Andrew L. Miller Wounded Fruit
Julie Kovacs No Sweet Talking *
Michael Ceraolo Are You Receiving Me? *
Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI art CCI30102010_00002KK
John Grey Duane
Drew Nacht I Can’t Wait to Get to Work *
Gabriella M. Belfiglio Dis-Content
Dan Fitzgerald Not Getting Better *
Jackie Smith At Arby’s
Michael Lee Johnson Subway India *  (also in Need to Know Basis (extended edition))
Bill Yarrow Before the Door  (also in Need to Know Basis (extended edition))
Stephen Todd Booker The Satchel
Peter Layton Part Of
I.B. Rad inCongress *
Anthony Brazeau Stuck in my Head
Don Hargraves Ignore The Media Circus, Here’s The Real Story
    About The Death of Osama Bin Laden
Matt Marinovich In His New Home
Andy Roberts Watch Out For Sparklers *
Patrick Hurley Scatter Splatter  (also in Need to Know Basis (extended edition))
Michael Estabrook Summer in the Warehouse *
Cheryl Townsend my stepfather tried *
Lyn Lifshin Kent State May 1970 *
C Ra McGuirt if you read this poem, then you will die *
Tom Roby Stuff of Dreams
Jenene Ravsloot Father
Christopher Barnes Plane Factory
Cheryl Townsend photo Not Another *
Charlie Newman Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
R. N. Taber Chalk and Cheese *
Kenneth DiMaggio Downfall
Henry Sosnowski Wrong Reflection *
kalifornia The Price
Oz Hardwick art Turn On Tune In Count the Money
Jeff Wyman At the Gym
Je’free Friction
Brian Looney The Mannequin Special *
Holly Day Some Babies Just Know *
David Michael Jackson art Chief
Oz Hardwick The Pros and Cons of Immortality *
Doug Draime Superman Looking Through
    A Microscope At Cells Dying
Corey Cook Sitting at a Bus Stop at Sunrise *
Bruce Matteson haiku *
Lennart Lundh Mother and Child *
Kelly Haas Shackeforld The Burden Of Marriage *
Clinton Van Inman Plato’s Cave *
David S. Pointer Pointman’s Dilemma *
Sarah Lucille Marchant Curious Savages *
Paul Smith Concrete, But More Like Dirt
Rurik Asher Baumrin A Late Night *
Matthew Schmidt Broken Bread
Stanley M Noah Requiem for the common individual *
Michael Cluff Just An Additional Droplet *
A.J. Huffman I Hate *
Fritz Hamilton I’m hungry, angry, lonely & tired, hence
Janet Doggett A Bipolar Life *
Judith Kaufman I Am Not A Watercolor
Pijush Kanti Deb The laying of Eggs *
Anna Maria Hansen Lost
Liam C. Calhoun The Sneeze *
Roger G. Singer A Quiet Wall *
Allen M Weber Another Timely Descent *
Simon Perchik untitled (note) *  (also in Need to Know Basis (extended edition))
Cara Losier Chanoine Need *
Becky Grush Untitled (tune) *
Xanadu Quatrain *
Tendai R. Mwanaka to Seed and Grow Stronger
Zoe Broome The Headless Elephant *
Madison Gardler life insurance *
Jean Wiggins Serial Harvest *
Bill Tarlin Frogged *
A. Lenkeit Dodgeball *
Vittorio Carli Dead Poem *
Daniel S. Weinberg lowku/haiku *one poem, “create”)
William F. Meyer, Jr. Cave Woman / Cave Man Soliloquy I
Ben Macnair Photographing Fireworks *
S. R. Mearns Homesick *
Paul Bavister Burdock
Daniel J O’Brien Matriarch *
Ronald Charles Epstein Musical Interludes *
Donald Gaither Horsefly *
Michael J. Grodesky Subliminal *
William Ogden Haynes Bushel *
William A. Greenfield Momma’s Boy Gone Bad
M.C. Rydel Thirty More Dead in Afghanistan
Anna Maria Hansen Last Look *
Janet Kuypers Objectifiable
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from the cc&d 21 year anniversary issue Invisible Ink
live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery
video video
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from the cc&d 21 year anniversary issue Invisible Ink
live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery
Each Half is the Enemy
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Human Construct of Time
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read live 11/01/11, at the Café
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from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt
magazines, the day they were released
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with John Yotko on guitar
and sampled wind-up clock ticking
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with John Yotko on guitar
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of Janet Kuypers reading this
in Nashville 10/26/13
in her Nashville Halloween feature
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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems
(and two original songs) live in her Chicago 1
0/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing
Nashville Halloween feature chapbook
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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.
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from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine
(titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14
at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
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of Janet Kuypers reading this
from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine
(titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14
at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, Threshold)

flash fiction

Mark Scott High Tech Hemingway
David Hutt Breakfast Companions
Kerry Lown Whalen A Creative Journey
Benjamin Sabin Upper Lip Hair
Linda M. Crate I want the impossible, always
David J. Thompson art shows 1
Terri Muuss From Above
Erve Beiser Saturday Night Samba
Natasha Grewal The clock winked.
Marina Manoukian sounds and silence
Robert Crowl Dreaming of Men Dreaming
Jon Brunette Chain Letter
Meredith Wilshere Blink
Elly Moore Her Mother Before Her
Patrick Fealey romantic
Ed “Tough Gut” Wilson From the ray of a candle in a dark jail cell.
Robert Bates Glory
H. D. Loughrey Summer’s End Wedding Fayre
Nicholas E. Efstathiou Disrespect
Janet Kuypers All I Can Capture 2010
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and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus
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A Little Angel Inside 2010
SingularListen mp3 file
(or listen mp3 file live)
to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Singular    Singular - Janet Kuypers & The DMJ Art Connection
studio version: Janet Kuypers and the DMJ Art Connection - Singular - A Little Angel Inside
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Distinguidhed Writing (the Kuypers edition)
live 03/22/11 at the Café in Chicago
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of the intro to the 03/22/11 open mic
at the Café in Chicago
(with this poem read)
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of Kuypers reading this poem
10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)
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10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery
in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece)

be free of you 2010
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listen: mp3 file (:20) read from cc&d magazine
from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue,
which was also released as the 6" x 9"
ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10,
live at the Café in Chicago
Jordan Blum Candles
Peter McMillan The Outlet
Stephen V. Ramey And Then He Moved

prose

Erica Haldi Shelter
David Michael Jackson art Into the Barrel of a Cannon
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Eric Burbridge Snowbound
Cheryl Townsend art To The Bridge
R. W. Lowrie Chronicles of Artificial Intelligence
Aaron Wilder art And to the Phallus for Which it Stands
Trevor Hackley The Dragon
Peter McMillan Evensteven
Allan Onik Open Door
James Warner Welcome Home
C. Covey Mason The Meadows, Again
M. Thomas Old Maids
Tom Sheehan The Boy with a Crooked Mouth
Peter Hully Escape
Victoria Smith The Importance Of Thread Count
Bob Strother Orphans of the Storm
John Paul Younes The Woman Without A Shadow
Caleb Holbrook The Teacher
George Semko Facing Doom
Mark Herden The Pro
Eleanor Leonne Bennett art diogen2222
Jennifer Ihas The Curious Nest
Janna Willard Consideration
Matt LeShay There’s a Tavern in the Town
Joseph Bodie Holding On
John Clayton Heinz Tunnel Vision (1998)
Joseph Kraus The Girl Next Door
Brian Forrest painting Ornette Colema
Brian Rodan Bakken Formation
Melissa Davis Eyes Like Coal
Michael Hoag You, Me and Scho
Fred Miller A Little Misunderstanding
Damian Sebouhian The Beatin’ Path
Denice Penrose Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
Jesse Martin The Hitchhiker
Jim Meirose Death Bed
Ronald Brunsky Rapture
Samantha Memi Gunfight at OK Corral
S.L. Dixon In Search of Moby Dick
Darcy Wilmoth A Letter from Iraq
Julie L. Brown Behind the Gates
Ash Medhurst Playground Football
Rex Sexton Road Kill
Cheryl Townsend photo Solo Trombone
K.D. Alter Teddy Holland, Graphomaniac
Lisa Gray Rats, Cats and Bananas
Chris Milam Document The Shooter in Light Blue
Brett Milam Penny
Jeff Burt To Move Heaven and Earth
Justin W. Price Lime Green Buddha
Alex Patterson Starry Night
Daniel Stockwell Unclaimed
Brian Forrest painting Georgetown Homer Airport
Anna Majeski Flash
Joan Koerper Easy, He Said
Mark C. Lane The Curious Incident
    of the Mold and Gordon Parker
Cynthia Lewis That Dress, That Hat
Matthew L. Hall Pain
Aidan King February in Syracuse
Susan Rocks Wednesday’s Child
Janet Kuypers Story Telling 2010
Listen in three parts in studio:
part 1: mp3 file - part 2: mp3 file - part 3: mp3 file
or in three parts live:
part 1: mp3 file - part 2: mp3 file - part 3: mp3 file
to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Singular    Singular - Janet Kuypers & The DMJ Art Connection
video videonot yet rated
See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (C) reading this
at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey
video videonot yet rated
See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (C, posterize) reading this
at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey
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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading this
at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey
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of Janet Kuypers (S, edge detection) reading this at Chicago’s
7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey


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Need to Know Basis (redacted edition)
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Need to Know Basis (redacted edition): a 2014 poetry & prose collection book front cover