2024 anthology


    

“Sanctuary” front cover

Welcome to the 2024 collection book
Sanctuary”...

    Enjoy the 2024 poetry, flash fiction, prose (and don’t forget the artwork) anthology with 2024 Editor’s Choice contest winners from Scars Publications, titled “Sanctuary”. This one-of-a-kind annual 2024 anthology collection book contains select accepted writings chosen from 2024 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

Sanctuary
the Scars Publications 2024 poetry,
flash fiction, prose & art collection anthology

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Cover art is image 185 from the Jade Buddha in Shanghai, China, photographed March 2004.

    




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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 Fade to Gray
Battling Back
Mickey Wilson Edwards Drought poem & painting
Remember November
 

Poetry
(artwork interspersed in italics)

Susie Gharib Unsettled Accounts
Camille Akers Painted Savior
Shontay Luna The Jars
Alan Ford Mae West
Salvatore Folisi the warden
Sean Meggeson Dancing with a Long Blade, or
    Drink More Scotch, You Dick
Sandip Saha Hinduism is eternal
Clarence Allan Ebert Metaphysical
Angela Carrozza Permanent Loss
Rowan Tate prayer from the second to last bathroom stall
Roy N. Mason They Say They Love You
Katarina Pavičić-Ivelja A found poem: For those who wish to control my body
Scott Taylor sat. night
Hannah Ferris The Stories of my Succulents (3)
R.T. Castleberry From a History of Servitude
Gil Hoy Saint Atheist
Alexandra Dark A Servant’s Love
Iftekhar Sayeed solar eclipse
Joan McNerney all the noise Canada geese and the long way home
KB Ballentine Choosing
Ian M. Ryan Questions
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah My Aunt’s Body
Jim Burns Autumn Light
Susan Pollet Eden
Karl Kliparchuk We Are All Origami
Roger Emerson Captive
Brittany Thompson Coward
Lillibit Ray Unthinkable
George Lee Grimsley Tired and homeward
J. J. Steinfeld Waiting for the Final Sound
Phil Madden Hastily Assembled New Year’s Resolution
David Francis Merchants
Emma McAuly Dead To Me
Todd Matson What the Cat Dragged In
James Bellanca Sea Graves
D. Marie Fitzgerald Five Days
Royal Rhodes riverway
Gale Acuff We tour the cemetery after class,
Payal Kudesia Grenade
Amy Hrynchuk In Harmony
Jamie Liddell Chemistry
Mark James Trisko Your Face on the News
M. Benjamin Thorne Monster Within
Alla Turovskaya Where my homes are not any more
Ellite Schlusselberg Survivor
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
Mel Goldberg Ex Wives
Andrej Bilovsky Waking A Stranger
Robert Paul Allen Strange Fruit Revisited 2023
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (whispers)
Janet Kuypers Beginning of the Universe
End of the Universe
 

Flash Fiction
(artwork interspersed in italics)

Lou Faber Reframed Dreams
Kyle Hemmings Beer photography
John F McMullen Are There Any Answers?
Karen Hedges Saguaro painting
Retta Lewis On the Day We All Became One
Linda M. Crate give me freedom
Diane Funston Liberty
Greg Beckman Bible-School
Wes Heine 10917427 photography
Leigh-Anne Burley Balancing Act
Bill Tope No Sanctuary
Binod Dawadi Army Tank art
Lima Das Kindness
Kenneth DiMaggio Conversations With the Dead,
Or, Ode to My MFA
in Creative Writing (#1)
Anila Bukhari Not your clothes, doll.
Corbin Schaefer flipside
Julianna May Sanctuary
Bradford Middleton Another of Those Damn Days
DS Maolalai There is no swagger there
Christopher Hivner Savior
Sterling Warner The Ancient City
Duane Anderson You should be able to undertake
and complete anything you desire.
Tohm Bakelas i am pro-title haikus
James Croal Jackson I’ll Eat the Moon If I Must
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Moon Women and Dive art
Thom Woodruff Moon Juice
Alan Catlin Temp Agency Worker as Baywatch Babe
Michael Lee Johnson Fog Man (V2)
Thomas Elson A Place You Could Not Follow
Aaron Wilder Occasional Infidelity art
Bill Johnston Paradigm
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci 4219 art
Michael R. Burch Something
Miles Varana Rich and Hearty
Rosalie Hendon My mother, in disguise
Geoffrey Aitken double it up
Lee Hammerschmidt Penalty of Law drawing
Pat Raia Indulgence
Amian Bent My Family
Christina Culverhouse The Story of THEM 896 art
Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay A Song of Love
David J. Thompson Georgia Dolls photography
Mirm Hurula Let me be in the closet a little longer
Lorie Ann Grover Thirteen
Stuart K Calderwood A Nearby Country
Karen Hedges Mickey and Tom painting
John Grey Your Fortune
Mykyta Ryzhykh Untitled (family)
Jose Manoj Mathews T What A Wonder
Jenny Morelli Before Locked Doors
Chris Wood For Those Whose Shelter is Not the Place to Be
Ram Krishna Singh Tanka (doorway)
Brian Cummings Someone Always Has the Answers
Jack Henry anarchy
Ray Whitaker The Way Of It
Michael Ceraolo Free Speech Canto LXXXIII
Allen F. McNair Canvas Bags Full-Laden art
Lynn White Counting
Carl Chapman Where Were You
John Yotko Model 18 hands in hair photography
Richard LeDue My echo
Heath Brougher Slaves to the Pixel
Sam Kilkenny Corn Chips
Ian Mullins Breaking Out
Tom Merrill Why Truth Is Unpopular
Daniel Bliss Post-Pandemic Barstool
David Sapp Here and Gone
Diana Becket Family arguments
Marte Carlock The Poison Ivy Tree
Simon Kaeppeli Mildew Hate
Brian Lee the limits of language
Craig Kirchner Fun Legs
Jess Whetsel Compost
Sarah Das Gupta Ukraine
Charlotte Jung Ukraine art
Jasper de Villiers the creature
Mukut Borpujari The Back of Beyond
John Louis Smith Preservation
Roger G. Singer long stem grass
McKenna Ashlyn Fears of a Setting Sun
Michael Daniel Silent Narrator
John Watts A bird sings
Jarrod Fouts Theremin
Deidre Sullivan Dirt Angel
William Ogden Haynes Entrepreneurs
Cami Rumble Dear Grandpa
John Zedolik Sea Wrack
Holly Day If I End
John Farquhar Young Ravine
Daniel de Culla Beauty photography
John Ragusa Murder At Sea
Jessica Aike Multiple Faces of Keke
Elena Botts Untitled 20 art
Mark Pearce The Graveyard
Donald Reed Greenwood Arnhem 1944 photography
James Bates Chromium
Janet Kuypers Chromium Shine poem
Chromium poem
Ken Kapp At Comedy Off-Center
Peter J. Stavros Skyscrapers
Dan Nicholas The Conduit
Fabiana Elisa Martínez Bills
Isabel G. de Diego Bench photography
Marc McMahon So My Soul Speaks
Raha.M Image 3 art
Bill Tope I’ve Got a Secret
David J Tate A Deer in the Kitchen Sink
James Nelli Passing Notes
Christopher Strople Image 3 photography
Donald Reed Greenwood Enigma
Oleksandr Gorpynich Incel
Raha.M FCta2dcX0AEtM8Q art
Tom Ball World of Saints
Drew Marshall Funeral in Crown Heights
Hasan Chaudhry Mulch
Christopher Strople T Hill Road photography
Steve Grogan Me
Wes Heine DSCN2270 art
Richard K. Williams Off Broadway (+ images)
Douglas Young The Elevator Ride
J. Ray Paradiso French photography
June Wolfman The Walk
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 2342 art
Joy Myers Mary-Lou’s week, in preparation for
    the Love-of-Her-Life’s wedding
Doug Hawley Death Row Magazine
George Beckerman And How Was Your Day?
Steevie Karnes Blues Brothers
Helen Bird “inksanity” Blue Kachina ink drawing
Tony Covatta On Seeing Past the Nose on One’s Face
Elena Botts Untitled 52 art
Mark Wolters The Great Room
John Riebow The Lurking Beast
ReLand Spin Cycle
Isabel G. de Diego Offer art
Roseann Bauer Sunset by the Ocean
Binod Dawadi Sun And Moon art
Lee Hammerschmidt Conch On! art
Mike Rader The Elves and Mr. Schumacher
Brian Connelly Fafnir’s Aegis
Corey Villas Tinderbox Blood
Wes Heine jail art
Latoya Kidd Who is Elijah Muhammad
Raha.M image 9 art
Michael Gigandet Mr. Jordan Parks His Car
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Lovely Rust photography
Jackie Bayless The Mannequin
Madelyne Timmons The Harris Four
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Hunted and Haunted art
Rykard Plaque Gloam Eye
Matthew McAyeal Sunshine in the Eternal Winter
Olivia G. Benson This Night Will Pass, But I’ll Never Be Yours
Elena Botts Untitled 37 photography
Justine Fleming The Ride Down
Corey Smith The Laundromat
Kenneth J. Russell Too Close for Comfort
Bradley Sutton Rage
George Wehrfritz The Deadliest Man Alive
Dedrick Williams On the Rise
Isabel G. de Diego Zapatos de Señora art
John Leggett Treading Water
Susan Sparrow Free Flight
Peter Stohlberg The Wrong Guy
Binod Dawadi Bone Ghost art
Garima Mishra Speed Breakers in Love
Eleanor Leonne Bennett skulled photography
Sandra Balteanu Men of yesterday, men of today
Jose Palacios In Life in Dead
Donald Reed Greenwood Blue Ridge Summer Storm photography
Rose Padrick Ain’t Makin’ ‘Scuses
Daniel Pater A visit to the twin cities
James Kowalczyk Going Downtown
Isabel G. de Diego Trans Yo photography
Jon Tucker Liquid Death
Wes Heine Distorted Faces art photography
Natasha Navarra Hunger
Binod Dawadi Abstract 252 art
Daniel de Culla Chop and nest photography
Elizabeth Sharp A Girl Named Wendy
Martha Ellen Johnson Pennywise
Wendy Taylor Emma-Kate and the Fickleness of Playground Life
Binod Dawadi The White Dog drawing
David J. Thompson 524 photography
Doug Jacquier The Oxygen Thief
Rose E. Grier Sassy drawing
David Larsen A Late Arrival
David Michael Jackson Questions painting
Derek McMillan The Future
Rubem Didini Filho The Doctor Rato Ching and The Halloween
James Razor Laundry Day
Kyle Hemmings Women In Black BW photography
Linda L. Bielowski, Ph.D. Flight
David J. Thompson Garnet #2 photography
Carol Murphy Clownish
Lee Hammerschmidt Clownin’ Around art
Ranjit Kulkarni I am just a Facebook Post
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci 4201 art
John Faylo The Mark of the Beast
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Gray Blues art
Janet Kuypers Visiting Omaha
Fred Cheney The Relic
Bill McCann A Visit to Wall Street
Susan Wells Dad’s Bloodhound Nose
Lee Hammerschmidt It’s Chow Or Never art
MW Murphy Losing My Faith
Binod Dawadi Evil BOOK art
Hai-Mo Hu Ten Tea Bags
Karen Hedges Wonkiness painting
Margaret D. Stetz Unbalanced
 

Prose
(artwork interspersed in italics)

John Zurn Uriel Fox and the Miraculous Escape
John Yotko IMG19 photography
David J. Thompson Hudson photography
Carl Chapman The Massage
Malcolm Bell The Idiocy of Paris
Thomas M. McDade Kim, Quick and Precise
Binod Dawadi City Scape At Night 49 art
David J. Thompson 041 photography
Toney Dimos The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Aaron Wilder Consumption 8 Digital photography Collage
Eric Burbridge The Evidence
Kyle Hemmings littree photography
Mark Schofer Bild Schön
Joseph B. Cleary Kelcy Arrives
Sophie Taylor Spooked
Aaron Wilder Details photography


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