Out of the Swamp


    

Out of the Swamp

    Enjoy the 2025 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the January-April 2025 magazine issues titled “Out of the Swamp”.
    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.

    





Out of the
Swamp

Down in the Dirt
January-April 2025
issue collection book

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



Down in the Dirt v227, January 2025:
Brutal Architecture

AUTHOR TITLE
Scott Taylor went down to new orleans
jackasses
years
Bio
Susie Gharib Re-Creation
He Dares Me
Bio
Søren Sørensen Bring me a flower
Vern Fein A Beech Tree
Ugly is the Eye
Lubricating History
James Bates Uranium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Uranium (+ 8/25/12 images 1 & 2)
Uranium Flexing
Uranium: Permafrost Saves (+ poem images)
Bio
James Nelli An Unexpected Lie
Elena Botts Untitled 56 art
Bio
Jason Brightwell After
The Turned Corner
Tracy Powers The Exhibition
Senses
Bill Tope Deb Hatcher
BJ Taylor Santa Muerte of the Soft-Soled Shoes
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Uno photography
Marisa Cimbal 9/11
Christopher Heise Lost Girl
Out of the Swamp
The Pale King
Bio
Ashlee Dean The Last Snow
Mat Waterman Benjamin Bruce and the Tale of
the Time-Traveling Pajamas
Daniel de Culla Cat 1 photography
Bio
Sarah Das Gupta War - The Greatest Enigma
Bio
Kenneth DiMaggio A Love Song for Brutalist Architecture (#1)
A Love Song for Brutalist Architecture (#3)
Ian Mullins New Tenant
Hello There It’s Hell Here
Up Up and Away
Gabriella Garofalo To M.
Alan Ford Teaching Sex
Joan Mach Garagesale Addicts Support Group (GASP)
Brianna King Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow
Binod Dawadi Abstract 230 art
Bio
Alan Balter My Friend Michael
Scott Ferguson You Go Back, Jack, and Do It Again
Scars Publications airplane 3848 & 3850 flying from Miami International Airport
12/26/08; image 3848 also used for the “Come Fly With Me” cover
(Copyright ” 2008-2021 Janet Kuypers)
Roger G. Singer Marooned
Motel Room #13
Standing Still
Mykyta Ryzhykh Mom burying
K.R. Moore Stepping Onto the Rainbow
Scars Publications Rainbow 3
Austin, TX (Copyright © 4/12/20-2024 Janet Kuypers)
Mark Pearce Darwin’s Malady
Bio
Scars Publications Giant Tortoise (image 2124)
the Highlands at Santas Cruz Island, the Galapagos Islands
(Copyright © 12/27/07-2024 Janet Kuypers)
This image was also used for the cover of the
Down in the Dirt 11/17 v151 issue/book “Monsters
Richard Lopez What They’re Talking About
Don Tassone Coach
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Nothing Left to Lose art
Jerome Berglund Untitled (lightning)
Bio
Kyle Hemmings White Lights photography
Bio
R James Sennett Jr Raise Your Hand
S. McManigal Savior
Andrew Daniel Dick The Hole in the World in the Shape of You
Bio
Janet Kuypers David (+ 8/14/05 image & 6/21/07 “uncorrect” image)
I Dreamt About You Last Night (+ /8/14/05 image)
a Child in the Park (+ /8/14/05 image)

Freedom Just Past The Fence
    (+ /8/14/05 image & 3/21/17 images 1 & 2)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v228, February 2025
Murder by Burger

AUTHOR TITLE
Joan Mach Lost On My Home Turf
James Bates Einsteinium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium
(+ 10/4/13 show image and poem image)
Bio
Donna Dallas Please Love Me Anyway
Dead Lover Infinitus
Mark Pearce The Book Vault
Bio
Mike Rader Murder by Burger
Bio
Raha.M FDQXxZOWQAImFpT art
Bill Tope Family
Donald Reed Greenwood Habitat 67 photography
Dawn DeBraal Mixed Messages
Karen Hedges Community Garden Member painting
Sandip Saha ‘Triumph of the truth’is a misnomer
Bio
Fabrice Poussin Valentine’s Day
Bio
Doug Hawley Kitty
Bio
Allen Seward an ever-spinning wheel
all these black holes with suns inside them
Bio
Dom Bond An autumn morning goes like this
Duane Anderson The Non-Alcoholic Bar
Bio
Richard Lopez Noble Truth #3
Remorse
Alan Ford The Poet, The Painter And The Murderer.
Binod Dawadi Picassos’s Mistress Muse art
Bio
Jose Manoj Mathews T Chasing Casanovas
Robert Rothman Keystone
Bio
Will Reger Bad Connection
The Moment of Departure
Bio
King Grossman Minority Vote
You Know One When You See One
Mark James Trisko Signs and Revelations
Bio
Peggy Gerber October 11th
Daniel de Culla Skulls Biting Leaf photography
Bio
Paweł Markiewicz The mysteries of four seasons
Bio
Deac Etherington The Choice
Isabel G. de Diego Aquatic Edge photography
Allan Onik The Castle in the Pines
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Butterfly Hearts art
Jeremy Nathan Marks West Memphis
Bio
Jennifer Bannan Hole
Bio
Christian Jackson Faith Healer
Bio
John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller Stairway To Heaven Bumper Sticker
Bio
Heather Hawks Bound By Conflict
Kyle Hemmings Prison 19 photography
Bio
Sharon Whitehill Winded
Peter McMillan Together Time
Bio
Søren Sørensen Dream 2 photography
John Zedolik Heated Overstatement
Tyler S. Pruett Ram Island Light
The Jetty
Bio
Jackson Herring Gun Dogs
Cailey Tin the dark seen in daylight 345 photography
Bio
Brenda Mox Lean with Memories
J. J. Steinfeld The Unnatural History of Scars and Flowers
Wearing a Map of Scars
Bio
Janet Kuypers Grab the Other’s Neck
(+ 8/28/05 Poetry Fest images 1 & 2)
Desire (+ 8/28/05 Poetry Fest images 1, 2, & 3)
Airbags - for Security and Defense
< Warren Stories (+ SIN show logo)
Couch Potato (+ SIN show logo)
I Wanna Be Like Jesus (+ SIN show logo)
God Will Save Me (+ SIN show logo)
The Hands of a Handyman
Bio


Down in the Dirt v229, March 2025
Sisyphus

AUTHOR TITLE
Richard Lopez All Bets Are Off
James Bates Curium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Curium(+ poem image & 10/1/16 images 1 & 2,
and 10/4/17 images 1 & 2)

Curium’s radioactive glitter
(+ reading images 1 & 2, & poem image)
Bio
Alan Ford Immortality Is Dead
Tyler S. Pruett Line-kin Neck, Maine
Bio
T G Hyde Bonnie Would Understand
Bio
Søren Sørensen The clock of life art
J. J. Steinfeld What Would Sisyphus Have to Say?
Bio
Bill Tope Footprints in the Sand
Peter McMillan In Living Memory
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz She Might be Bluffing art
Khaloud Al-Muttalibi Emblem
Bio
Tony Covatta The Inheritance
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 19 art
Bio
Jeff Hazlett Nothing to Be Done
Bio
Zhu Xiao Di It Matters
Now I Know
Bio
Claudia Wysocky Unfinished Exit
Bio
Jimmy R. Coleman A troubling question: Has Southern Baptist
mission work among Palestinians been a bad
investment? (An Open Letter to Southern Baptist)

Bio
Iliria Osum the gentle thing
Grace Szilvasy My Shirt
Bio
Binod Dawadi Abstract 236 art
Bio
Bill Tope Remembering
Royal Rhodes Street Video
Bio
Steven P. Unger Getting Around in Romania—2005
Isabel G. de Diego Cathedral 2 photography
Richard Patterson Hunting Humans
Bio
Daniel de Culla My dentures got lost in the cemetery photography
Bio
Matthew Weems Gotta Get back Home
Raha.M CFAD8424-186F art
Doug Stoiber Brotherhood of Cool
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Dance 5 BW photography
Bio
Bill Tope Bob
Isabel G. de Diego Gato 1 photography
Nolo Segundo BABYLAND
Donna M. Davis Auto Crash, World in Flames
Asteroid
Surviving Retirement
Bio
Douglas Young The Interrogation
Bio
Horia Alexandru Pop Next one photography
Robert Funderburk Birthday
Louisiana 2016
Bio
Mark Fleckenstein Shoes
Sisyphus
Bio
Sarah Das Gupta A Vision of Freedom
Seema Speaks
Bio
Paul O. Jenkins Discovery
Michael Brockley Breadcrumbing, Red Flags, and Dating Taboos
Bio
Brian C. Miller 2 AM in Scotland
Fastball
Amir Sommer You Can’t Save All the Stray Cats
Night River
Scott Taylor Another Prostitute Story
fuck you
Bio
F.S. Blake Flower Moon
Bio
Nolo Segundo On Finding A Dead Deer In My Backyard
Âmî Jey Becoming Poetry
The Art of Showing Up
Impermanence
Janet Kuypers John Stories (+ SIN show logo)
Bad Tricks with the Cue Stick
Cigarette Butts are Lethal
Running Toward Your Demise
Choose You Fate: By Knife or by Car
Too Many Guns
A Great American
Eight-Dollar Bills and Shoeless (dreams 12/22/24)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v230, April 2025
Written_Archaeology

AUTHOR TITLE
James Bates Berkelium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Berkelium can recycle radioactivity image
Berkelium (+ poem image, 1/210/18 reading image
and 9/12/14 show images 1 & 2)

Bio
Alan Ford Living Outside the Law
Scars Publications Amish farmer
Intercourse, PA (Copyright © 2000-2024 Janet Kuypers)
Peter McMillan Made to Work
Bio
Horia Alexandru Pop On the Road again photography
Samuel Louis Spencer Sourdough #26
Emma McAuly The Future I Fear...
Ian M. Ryan Drunk
Bio
Bill Tope Shared Love
Elena Botts Untitled 35 art
Bio
Joan Mach Day After Infamy - An Alternate History
Mykyta Ryzhykh Untitled (glass/grass)
Zach Murphy Anadromous
Bio
David Sapp A Brief History of Ron’s Pizza
Bio
John Farquhar Young Percy and the gardening lady
Bio
Karen Hedges Home Grown painting
Ayaan Fahad Chrysalis
Ghosts of the Past
Nadine Revheim Post-Election Reflection
Bio
Robert Beveridge Ace of Pentacles
Bio
Donald Reed Greenwood Tanner
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Bad Case of the Blues art
Zac Walsh The Voice
Bio
Wes Heine Collage WI art/TD>
Corbin Schaefer The Best Of Me (bleach)
Bio
Gil Hoy Hiking in Saguaro National Park
Bio
Kalina Smith Written Archaeology
The B-Grandkid
Michael Gigandet Grandpa’s Hips
Bio
Christopher Strople Color Grange photography
Christine Benton Criswell Les Premiers émois
Bio
Bill Tope How Many?
Stuti Jain russian roulette
Bio
Kenneth DiMaggio Ode #2 To My Hallmark Movie America
Ode #3 To My Hallmark Movie America
Ode #4 To My Hallmark Movie America
Douglas Young That Little Purple Pill
Bio
Time clock illustration from https://www.earth.com/news-physicists-make-bold-
claims-that-time-is-an-illusion-question-its-existence.htm
Søren Sørensen Sunrise 4 photography
Laura Zucca-Scott Grandpa Raimondo
Paisà – Countryman
Bio
Jennifer Choi 108 stars
sadness is a cloth
Bio
Donna Gum In an Instant
Roger G. Singer stone sound
Michael Tyler Shadowplay
Let’s Be Natural
Bio
Daniel de Culla Fancy Woman - La Nueva Cenicienta art
Bio
Clive Aaron Gill I’m Leaving
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Palms 2 photography
Ken Kapp Hops, Skips, and a Jump
Bio
Sreekanth Kopuri A Day at Auschwitz
Bio
John Grey As Seen Through Mist
Bio
Dr. Steven M. Gerson Addiction
Stars Aching in Distant Skies
What is
Sandip Saha Parasite
Those who are extinct are not loser
Bio
Janet Kuypers People’s Rights Misunderstood
The Way You Tease Me
the Battle at Hand (+ 6/21/07 “Uncorrectshow image)
Communication ‘05
Bio


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