2022 anthology


    

“Running Out of Time” front cover

Welcome to the 2022 collection book
Running Out of Time”...

    Enjoy the 2022 poetry, flash fiction, prose (and don’t forget the artwork) anthology with a 2022 Editor’s Choice contest winner from Scars Publications, titled “Running Out of Time” of select poetry, flash fiction, prose & art in this one-of-a-kind annual 2022 anthology collection book, which contains select accepted writings chosen from 2022 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

Running Out of Time
the Scars Publications 2022 poetry,
flash fiction, prose & art collection anthology

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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 “Running Out of Time” today!


   And HEY! Any video recorded readings of material included in this date book are also listed here, so check out the video links here as well...

    




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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.

AUTHOR TITLE
 

Editor’s Choice
contest winner

Paul Bellerive Ghosts
 

Poetry
(artwork interspersed in italics)

Linda D’Argenio Ants
David J. Thompson Film Camera Days
Edward Lee I See You
Jenene Ravesloot DSCF0964 photography
Bradford Middleton The Impossible Dreamers who are
Convinced Everyone Else is Mad
for not Following Them
Oz Hardwick Slow and Steady art
Ben Nardolilli Continuing Collaborations
Kyle Hemmings Black Widow photography
Thomas M. McDade Eye to Eye
Eric Bonholtzer IMG_6507 photography
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (poetry)
David Russell Jungle art
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (letting go)
John Grey Paul
Christina Culverhouse A Dream Within a Dream painting
Fabrice Poussin Dark stream
Wes Heine DSCN0967 art painting
Alex B. Diamond I see no reason to sleep (+ image)
Richard K. Williams Ignorant Fliers
Bill Tope Normal From the Neck Down
Christina Culverhouse Your Truth in Every Moment painting
Robert Royal Poff Road Side Soul Sale
Carina Solis yesterday
Brian C. Miller Map of Minds
Kenneth DiMaggio American Autobiography, or,
Nostalgia for a Time
That Never Was (#1)
Gil Hoy Wealth
Madhalasa Iyer paint like pain
Terry J. Allen The Bully Bullied from a Safe
Distance Without the
Skill Set to Pull it Off
Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay Daisy
Michael Pollentine Bridge
The Only Way We Survive
Sword
David Dumouriez Dennis Hopper’s Grave,
Sometimes when I wake
Roger G. Singer I see you
holding hands
Susie Gharib Orbs
Andrea Chancey Trust
Rickey Rivers Jr. Nice Skin
Saja Abdulreda Behind the hill
David Francis Diner off the Road
Long Distance
Marlon Jackson Absolute
Livio Farallo corridor
Karen Lee Stradford Vine
Rejection
Joseph S. Pete You Had to Be There
Conundrum
Megan Mealor Your Grandfather’s Cottage
Ikera Olandesca The Prodigal Returns
Ankita Roy Choudhury Far Away From Here
Sterling Warner KY Petroleum
Farhana Akter Home Of Soul
Cathy Porter My Name Is Equality
Mariel Cariker Love and Dental Work
Paul Tanner wound salt
Amanda Hynds Lonely in Independence
Gale Acuff I’m going to Hell my teacher says at
Kim Malinowski How strangers still say “bless you”
Heather Sager Waiting for Zero
Jerome Berglund owl decoy haiga image
Peycho Kanev Leaves
John Kaprielian Maybe That’s Why
Linda M. Crate it’s okay, underestimate me
A.D. Winans You Deserve to Suffer
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci DESENIM 23ERA art
Todd Matson She’s Dead
C Ra McGuirt Negative Perspiration
I.B. Rad “Freedom of Speech”
Alexis Garcia This Feeling
Karen Hedges Santa Ynez Valley painting
John F McMullen Democracy
John Sweet a breadcrumb trail through
the palace of human frailty
David J. Thompson Osceola photography
Michael Ceraolo Modern Olympian Ode #40
(2021) Share and Share Alike
Christina Culverhouse Arise and Become painting
Richard LeDue About Family
Fabrice Poussin Jungle of Colors photographic art
DS Maolalai 2am. Stumbling drunk
Rose E. Grier Blue Tube photography
James Mulhern Session’s End
Alan Catlin Joey was born
Algo W-interFlora
Tony Brewer The Social Safety Net
Elena Botts I thought of you caught in that riptide
Kate Falvey Miranda in Nighttown
R.T. Castleberry The Curiosities Of Decline
Tohm Bakelas prayer for brokenhearted misanthropes
Joan McNerney Knave
Donna Dallas Creepers
Mark A. Murphy Thinking Without A Bannister
Ivan de Monbrison Lost memories in English & Russian
John L. Stanizzi Uprooted and Broken
David Sapp The Watercourse Way
Laina Ball Empathy
Nancy Machlis Rechtman And I Disappear
Georgia May Running Out of Time
Travis Green Stillbirth
Michael Lee Johnson Deep in my Couch (V2)
Kyle Heger Reflections on Darth Vader
Jon Carter garden
Dee Allen Discovery [ Excerpt ]
Tom Squitieri Warm Bread At Morning
RM Yager The Dowager
Jo Bower Our Last Day
Nielina Babajee meredith
(eye) balls
Nicole Bird Tipping Point
Sandip Saha Most people are immersed in filth
Robert Funderburk As a Shadow
Maria Petkova The world
Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi Lying Breastless in Bed
Frederick Livingston Desert Fruit
Michael Brockley this song is a fortunate son //
a runaway mystery train //
a stranger in the night //
this song is the pompatus of love
Douglas J. Lanzo Paper or Plastic: Profound Impact
E.P. Fisher Bukowski & Company
Wes Heine 61974 photography
Nancy Jo Allen Dear, Other Woman,
Christopher Hivner The Great White
Don Hargraves Objects in Front of The Windshield...
Michael H, Brownstein Politico
Changming Yuan Do You See, My Dear
John Kaprielian The Walk
Richard Puglisi And the Storm Rages on
Danielle An’Mai Break All the Rules Burn All the Handbooks
David Mascellani The Symbolic, The Imaginary, and The Real
John Faylo Circle
Christian Ward Radiotherapy 101
Ruvindra Sathsarani Life for Life’s Sake.
Cailey Tarriane Because of You
Jon Carter the clouds in heaven are on fire tonight
Staci Leigh Heavy
Saturn Guo To See it All Again
Toko Hata Lie
Alexandra Geiger Morgan How to Detect a Narcissist
Stephanie V Sears Alter Ego
Lynn Hughes Boomer’s Lament
Ian Mullins I Haven’t Read That One
Denise Cloutier Riding with the Window Open
Diya Anantharaman 10 Years, A Stranger
Alan Balter Feeling Sorry for Myself
Felicia Nimue Ackerman How Thrilled
Lane Devers You are in quarantine
Zhihua Wang Appreciating Poetry
Neil Flory the new arrivals
Cheryl A. Rice Solutions
Chris Butler Generation Z
Janet Kuypers from Looking for a Worthy Adversary

the Men at the Construction Site
+ Farsi translation of the poem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ also showing its “Farsi translation” of the poem) from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Running Out of Time” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Okay, it’s all about the Oxygen” + image from the v203 1/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Gravity of Imagination”(that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Indium” from the cc&d September-December 2022 issue issue collection book “Unable To Escape It” (that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 1/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ also showing its “Farsi translation” of the poem) from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Running Out of Time” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Okay, it’s all about the Oxygen” + image from the v203 1/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Gravity of Imagination”(that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Indium” from the cc&d September-December 2022 issue issue collection book “Unable To Escape It” (that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 1/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan
Out to the Horizon
 

Flash Fiction
(artwork interspersed in italics)

John Sullivan Shock Worker Poets Paleo-Radio
Theatre Manifesto #3
Kyle Hemmings Heart photography
John Zurn Uriel Fox and the Vaccine Party
Norm Hudson The State of Freedom
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Free Falling art
Alexis Garcia Paint a Picture
Helen Bird “inksanity” Stairway to the Stars ink drawing
Darrell Petska Silver Alert!
Eric Bonholtzer IMG_6070 photography
Charles Hayes Hard Times
Doug M. Dawson Hedge Your Bets
David J. Thompson Way Of The Cross photography
Emily Fontenot Trash
Miranda Yearwood Red Juice Stains On a Rayon Blouse
Jenene Ravesloot Remembering Marilyn Monroe
Unfinished Business
Eric Burbridge Wrong Address
Greg G. Zaino Didn’t Refuse
Julian Matthews How many ways can I prove
to you I am not a robot
Chuck Teixeira In Plain View
Joe Chiudina Up Close and Personal
Eric Bonholtzer IMG_1219 photography
James Hanna Breaking Vials
Linda M. Crate strong women aren’t the true villains
Devin Vandriel Hide
Mike Schneider Like a Marriage
Elena Botts Untitled 11 digital art
Nicholas Fairclough The Man Behind The Fence
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Fenced In art
James Bates Hydrogen
Janet Kuypers Hydrogen: One Against One poem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publications 2022 annual collection book “Running Out of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Mark Pearce New Year’s Geese
Advit Gaur Aegina
Isabel G. de Diego Asperges acuático photography
Mike Rader Fateful Fettucine
Clive Aaron Gill Imminent Demise
Gary Zenker What the fuck is wrong with you?
Karen Hedges Silhouette painting
A. L. F. Fagan A Dangerous Intersection
John Farquhar Young Fate?
Christopher Strople Brunswick Bridge art
David Sapp As It Should Be
Keith Hoerner M. Dusa
Lincoln Hirn Local Legends
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Boldly Diffident art
Aston Lester Ben
Mehdi Hasan Distance between 27th floor to the Ground
Harrison Linklater Abbott A-word
Kassandra Heit Déjà Vu
Charles J. March III Celibacy Psychiatry word art
Dennis Piszkiewicz The Hot Car
Judge Santiago Burdon Tales My Grandfather Told
Christopher Strople Grange art
Peter Bernstein Bad Energy
Radoslav Rochallyi spy mathematical art
Kirk Alex New Black Suit Worn Twice
Arjun Earthperson haze-space
Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh Karen, the Misbehaved Girl
K. McAllister The Day She Disappeared
Ciara M. Blecka Behind the Mask
Rachel Sievers The Absence of Light
Robyn Michaels On The Water
Edward N. McConnell Where Harry’s Buried
Gunther Boccius Flight of Fancy
Andrew Kolarik Letters To My Younger Self
George Beckerman Foster Has An Earworm
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Sing a Happy Song art
Mike Schneider My Saddest Valentine’s Day
Raha.M Image 1 collage art
George M. George, Daniel R. George,
                                        Grant Meese
British Invasions
J. Ross Archer The Street Without Joy
Elena Botts Untitled 08 digital art
Christopher Strople Collage 1 art
Elaine Barnard Transition
James R. Green The Eternal Ride
Sawyer Doggett Nocturnal Love
Doug Hawley Read My Shorts
Tom Ball Triumph of the Morons
Steve Prusky Diamond Colored Tears
Jerome Berglund Untitled 04 photography
Zach Murphy Blackout
John Ragusa The Radio
Eleanor Leonne Bennett P1460271 photography
Daniel de Culla Inside of the Cemetery of Moradillo
= de Roa (Burgos) photography
Joan Mach Uh-Oh
Elizabeth Broadbent Three Ways Elvis Didn’t Die
Mark Keane Gospel
Christopher Strople Allure art
Cailey Tarriane Chess Dares
Peter McMillan The Man in the Blue Blazer
Paul Stansbury The Color Of Blood
Jerome Berglund Untitled 06 photography
Peggy Gerber Adam and Amber Escape the Planet
NASA Cassini image of moons of Saturn
Begoña Montesinos Desolation
Fearing those days
Janet Kuypers Brushes with Greatness
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publications 2022 annual collection book “Running Out of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


fox in the snow

Seven Miles
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publications 2022 annual collection book “Running Out of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


 

Prose
(artwork interspersed in italics)

Don Kropp The Mattole, River, Valley, People.
Frederick Frankenberg Thermonuclear Heads-Up
S.F. Wright Night Life
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Street Corner Flirtation art
Joshua Adair Gram’s Pinches
Eric Bonholtzer IMG_0620 photography
Steve Carr Tenderloin
Mark Vickers Barn Cats
David Michael Jackson Donkeys Charcoal Drawing
JP Lor Broken Swings
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Swinging on a Star art
Kilmo The Only Way Out
Leo Hines The New Girl
David J. Thompson Detroit Church photography


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