    Enjoy the 2024 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the September-December 2024 magazine issues titled “Shattered Facades”.
    The author names in this listing appear as they are listed in magazine issue/books. For writings that appear in issues, the titles of their writing do not appear on this web page, but all of the names are linked to the individual issue/book that actually contains the material.
    To know exactly what is included in this collection book, view the listing below. All author entries are listed in this collection book as they are listed in magazine issue/books.

The cover art is an image by Maria from Pixabay.

Shattered
Facades
Down in the Dirt
September-December
2024 issue
collection book
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(Images printed inside this book
are printed in black and white;
Internet links are color images.)

below is a listing of the accepted writers
and titles writing in this collection.

Down in the Dirt v223, September 2024:
“Institutionalized”

AUTHOR

TITLE

James Bates

Thallium
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Thallium’s a real killer
(+ “poem image” & 3/30/22 show images 1 & 2)
Thallium
(+ “poem image” & 2/23/14 show images 1 & 2
Bio

Scott Taylor

girl
institutionalized
Bio

Bill Tope

Renewal

Sherry Shahan

Late Seating Collage art
Bio

Bill Tope

The Scenic Route, Redux

Tiffanny Haacker

A Free Sample
Bio

Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz

Gypsy Woman art

Latoya Kidd

Who is Etta James?
Bio

Elena Botts

Untitled 14 art
Bio

Kim Malinowski

When You Say ‘Fuck It’ and Go Kayaking
Bio

Mike Rader

Isn’t that Elizabeth Taylor?
Bio

M. Benjamin Thorne

Mouths
Monster Within
Bio

Jack Coey

Don’t Be Cruel

Kyle Hemmings

Ding photography
Bio

T. A. Seward

Some Have Lost Their Way

Susie Gharib

To Be Deported
A House of Cards
Bio

Doug Hawley

Nose
Bio

Jamie Liddell

Chemistry
Bio

Kenneth J. Russell

Too Close for Comfort

George Wehrfritz

The Deadliest Man Alive
Bio

Susie Gharib

There is no yearning left
Bio

Kenneth DiMaggio

Elegy #2 Told Through Several Dystopian Voices
Elegy #4 Told Through Several Dystopian Voices

Alan Ford

Wes Heine

Bradley Sutton

Sarah Das Gupta

Paul Smith

Dedrick Williams

Isabel G. de Diego

Zapatos de Señora art

Iftekhar Sayeed

solar eclipse
Bio

David Sapp

Despite Khrushchev
Bio

Joan McNerney

all the noise
noon day demon

Ken Cathers

Canada geese and the long way home
Bio

John Leggett

Treading Water
Bio

KB Ballentine

Choosing
Bio

Kenneth DiMaggio

Elegy #1 for The 1$ New York City Slice of Pizza
Elegy #2 for The 1$ New York City Slice of Pizza
Elegy #5 for The 1$ New York City Slice of Pizza

Susan Sparrow

Free Flight

Gary William Ramsey

Assault on the Wall

John Yotko

Berlin Wall 01 photography

Peter Stohlberg

The Wrong Guy

Binod Dawadi

Bone Ghost art
Bio

Jose Palacios

In Life in Dead

Donald Reed Greenwood

Blue Ridge Summer Storm photography

Ian M. Ryan

Questions
Bio

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

My Aunt’s Body
New Year Wishes

Garima Mishra

Speed Breakers in Love

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

skulled photography
Bio

Jim Burns

Autumn Light
When I Was A Child

Susan Pollet

Eden poem and painting

Karl Kliparchuk

We Are All Origami
Bio

Janet Kuypers

One Spring: Italy
(+ “The Universe is in your Hands” front cover
One May Day: Paris
One May Day: Switzerland

Because of a Fire

Dinosaur track images 1 & 2), & “Culture Woven into Cloth” (+ showing Panamanian “mola” woven cloth art images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 1/5/25 Global Open Mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed from a Samsung S24 camera / a Green Screen filter; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

In the Air (part 1, verse 1)
(+ Hoover Dam images 1 (water) & 2 (side))

Retracing Steps Through History
(+ Dinosaur images 1 & 2, & Dinosaur track images 1 & 2)

Knowing Kevorkian (The Universe is in your Hands edit)
(+ “The Universe is in your Hands” front cover
My Kind of Town (The Universe is in your Hands edit)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/24 “Shattered Facades” & the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Knowing Kevorkian (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)” & “My Kind of Town (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)” (+ sharing a bonus Windy City Word 8/17/24 image from reading this poem), + her cc&d 9-12/24 “Alone with the Stars” & the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poem “Willie Pete” to close her “Poetic License 4/6/25 Global Open Mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ 300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Culture Woven into Cloth
(+ Panamanian “mola” woven cloth art images 1 & 2)

Bio

Down in the Dirt v224, October 2024:
“Fall Rituals”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Doug Hawley

Adair
Violators
Bio

Donald Reed Greenwood

Ramshackle photography

Gil Hoy

My Old New Apartment
Bio

Steve Grogan

He Was Loved

Wes Heine

DSCN0908 art

Bill Tope

A Halloween Legend is Born

Isabel G. de Diego

Underworld Drums And Bugle 4 photography

Bill Tope

On Ne Sait Jamais

Daniel de Culla

Banana and middle finger
playing with the mobile photography
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Francium
(+ poem image & 1/2/13 show images 1 & 2)
Francium, of the feline persuasion (+ poem image)
Bio

James Bates

Francium
Bio

John Tures

The Deregulator
Bio

Lee Hammerschmidt

Pain In The Neck art
Bio

John Doriot

Brothers In Arms

Scars Publications

Controlled Burn in Holland, MO
(Copyright © 6/18/22-2024 Janet Kuypers)

Aituamen Justice Eromosele

Resilience in Rags

Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz

Homeward Bound 2 art

Peace Asiegbu

Undercover Housekeeper
Bio

Kyle Hemmings

Green Girl photography
Bio

R. Gerry Fabian

Collecting The Remnants

George Lee Grimsley

Tired and homeward
Bio

John Farquhar Young

Pat Raia

Eric Howes

Leila Yandell

Mykyta Ryzhykh

Untitled (birds/poetry)
Untitled (sky)

Scars Publications

Mynx looking at Zach
with a chipmunk in his mouth
(Copyright © 5/30/12-2024 Janet Kuypers)

Langutani Chauke

Atonement

Susie Gharib

Scars I
Bio

Sandra Balteanu

Men of yesterday, men of today

Mark James Trisko

Your Face on the News
Fall Rituals
Bio

Roger Emerson

Captive

Anne McPherson Arthurs

Howl
Bio

Brittany Thompson

Coward
Untitled

Dermott Petty

No Clam Chowder

David Russell

Crayons 1 art

Charley Dennehy

Todd
Bio

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Cove 1 photography
Bio

Lillibit Ray

Unthinkable
The Gardener
Bio

Craig Kirchner

Feel Free
Bio

Thom Schilling

Angel and Devil on My Shoulders

J. Ray Paradiso

Pilsen 10 art

Ellite Schlusselberg

Survivor
Bio

Mel Goldberg

Ex Wives

Janet Kuypers

Edge of that Massive Impact (+ Meteor Crater image)

Xyresic Flames (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)
(+ Notre Dame images 1, 2, & 3, + Notre Dame fire images 1, 2, & 3,
+ 8/17/24 show images 1, 2, & 3)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/24 “Shattered Facades” & the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poem “Xyresic Flames (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)” (+ showing Notre Dame images 1, 2, & 3, + Notre Dame fire images 1, 2, & 3, + 8/17/24 show images 1, 2, & 3) during her “Poetic License 3/2/25 Global Open Mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr) —

This Facebook live video stream was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera, and shared on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Phobos Fears the Dread Deimos Knows
Our Interlocked Dance with the Moon
Unlocking History Through Asteroids
(+ “The Universe is in Your Hands” front cover)
Russians at a Garage Sale (+ show image)
the Little Differences (+ show image)
Bio

Down in the Dirt v225, November 2024
“Shadows of Sanity”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Janet Mason

Special
Bio

James Bates

Thorium
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Thorium smoothing the moon
(+ poem image & “The Universe is in Your Hands” front cover image)
Thorium (+ poem image & show images 1, 2, & 3)
Bio

Andrea C. Gielen

Color Lies

Fred Klein

Of Submarines and the IRB
Bio

Elena Botts

Untitled 43 art
Bio

Kelly McSherry

Mindstorm

Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz

Mind Reader art

Sean Ryan

This Time I’m Staying Clean and Sober

Lee Hammerschmidt

All Day I Faced the Barren Waste art
Bio

Rose Padrick

Ain’t Makin’ ‘Scuses

Marc McMahon

Shadows of Sanity
Bio

Kyle Hemmings

Prison 18 photography
Bio

James Nelli

Benjamin’s Lure

Donald Reed Greenwood

Difficult Run art

J. J. Steinfeld

Life on Another Planet
Foretelling
Waiting for the Final Sound
Bio

Connor Lougheed

The Cough
Bio

Isabel G. de Diego

Puerta Bodega de Rita photography

Phil Madden

Hastily Assembled New Year’s Resolution

David Francis

Merchants
The Innocents
Bio

Daniel Pater

A visit to the twin cities
Bio

Alla Turovskaya

Gratitude
Where my homes are not any more

Suzanne S. Rancourt

for all the missing, and murdered
indian girls and/or women who just
weren’t white enough or rich enough, or
educated enough or cared about enough
Bio

Mirela-Andreea Rotariu

Requiem for a Ghost

Todd Matson

His First Lovey
What the Cat Dragged In

Drew Marshall

Sensory Deprivation & cartoon

Gift Davies

Shattered Facades

Emma McAuly

Dead To Me

Brianna King

Dirty Laundry

Daniel de Culla

Musicians in silence photography
Bio

James Kowalczyk

Going Downtown
Bio

Isabel G. de Diego

Trans Yo photography

Bill Tope

For Love

Natasha Navarra

Hunger
Bio

Binod Dawadi

Abstract 252 art
Bio

Daniel de Culla

Chop and nest photography
Bio

Jon Tucker

Liquid Death
Bio

Wes Heine

Distorted Faces art photography

Corbin Schaefer

caligula
Bio

D. Marie Fitzgerald

A Perfect World
A Taking
Five Days

Mohammadreza Rostami

Black holes
Black holes original in Persian

Janet Kuypers

Why the White Cliffs of Dover Are So White
(+ “The Universe is in Your Hands” front cover image & White Cliffs of Dover image)
Private Lives I (+ show image)
Private Lives II
Private Lives IV (+ show image)
Tall Man (+ show image)
High Roller (+ show image)
Writing Your Name (+ show images 1 & 2)
at least i have this (+ show image)
that’s not what i’m here for (+ show image)
they never ask me (+ show image)
Bio

Down in the Dirt v226, December 2024: “Reverse”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Natasha Navarra

Oneirology
Bio

Faith Miller

Reverse

Isabel G. de Diego

Singing to Saint Peter photography

Elizabeth Sharp

A Girl Named Wendy

James Bellanca

A Mother Alone
Sea Graves

Martha Ellen Johnson

Pennywise

Kal Stein

Aging, Dying
Bio

Mickey Wilson Edwards

Drought poem & painting

James Bates

Protactinium
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Protactinium, and voilà... rocks? (+ poem image)
Protactinium
(+ poem image, & 7/7/14 show images 1, 2, & 3)
Bio

Leigh Doughty

The Cough
Bio

Raha.M

Image 7 art

Steen Rasmussen

Shots Fired

Scars Publications

Royal Rhodes

a domestic haiku
riverway
Bio

Bill Tope

Mal Compris

Gale Acuff

Everybody dies without exception
Lesson
We tour the cemetery after class,
Bio

Dr. Adyasha Acharya

Nexus
Bio

Christopher Strople

Basq 1 art

Sterling Warner

Faces Beyond a Skid Road Mural
Mach I Alameda
Bio

Susie Gharib

A Bridge
Bio

Daniel de Culla

Woman in profile photography
Bio

Eric Rogers Bach

The Taste Tester
Bio

Elena Botts

Untitled 07 art
Bio

Alan Ford

Shoot the parents?

Henri Colt

Isabella’s Secret
Bio

Scott Taylor

Macy
Bio

J. Ray Paradiso

Tie photography

Rebecca Sutch

Karla

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

P1450241 photography
Bio

Robert Rothman

Fix It
Bio

Payal Kudesia

Grenade

Amy Hrynchuk

come on over
Dance Floor
Easy Route
In Harmony

Allan Onik

The Ghost of Harvard

Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz

Secret drawing

Lenny Levine

I M What I M

Daniel Pater

Roy Rogers Croons on the Five Freeway
Bio

Tallulah Stone

Workplace Accident

Søren Sørensen

Round trip to hell

Donald Reed Greenwood

Autumn fade photography

Paweł Markiewicz

The prayer for a golden-eyed monk
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Military Police (+ 4/1/05 show image)
The One at Mardi Gras (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)
(+ “The Universe is in Your Hands” front cover image)
Key to Survival
(+ 6/7/05 show image, & 8/8/09 show images 1 & 2)
Get Me Out of this Cage (+ 6/7/05 show image)
Marry Me... Whatever You Are
(+ 6/7/05 show image)
Bio

Order “Shattered Facades”
as a 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book

below is a listing of the accepted writers and titles writing in this collection.

Down in the Dirt v223, September 2024: “Institutionalized”

Down in the Dirt v224, October 2024: “Fall Rituals”

Down in the Dirt v225, November 2024 “Shadows of Sanity”

Down in the Dirt v226, December 2024: “Reverse”

Order “Shattered Facades” as a 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book

below is a listing of the accepted writers
and titles writing in this collection.

Down in the Dirt v223, September 2024:
“Institutionalized”

Down in the Dirt v224, October 2024:
“Fall Rituals”

Down in the Dirt v225, November 2024
“Shadows of Sanity”

Order “Shattered Facades”
as a 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book