Containing over 100 stories, After is a collection of author Allan Onik's work since 2010. Many of these stories were first published by Scars Publications and are now being reprinted in a large collection book. Ranging from the mystical to the suspenseful, these are literary stories that entertain. When finished reading the stories, the reader will take in a poem.

Based on a 2014 "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt) chapbook from Scars Publications (http://scars.tv), "Major Arcana" is a book by Allan Onik.

"The Church" is a 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the May 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alandya Durand, Allan Onik, Angela Boswell, Carlos Frigo, Donald Dewey, Emilio Iasiello, J.T. Siemens, Janet Kuypers, Joe Reister, Joseph S. Pete, Kassandra Hei, Liam Spencer, Lisa Gray, Marc McMahon, Matthew McAyeal, Miki Michele Byrne, Robert Ronnow, Robert Ruzicka, Roger G. Singer, Tom Ball, Zachary Jarrett, Carolyn Poindexter, Denny E. Marshall, Eleanor Bennett, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.

"Dear Reader" is a 2018 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the March 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http: //scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Adam Kluger, Allan Onik, Anna Kander, Bekah Steimel, Cecelia Burton, Chris O'Halloran, Christina Kosch, Daniel David Sapp, David Turton, Doug Hawley, Douglas J. Ogurek, Drew Marshall, Fabrice Poussin, Janet Kuypers, Jeri Langert, Johann Sam, Jon Wesick, Kevin Z. Garvey, M.C. Rydel, Marc McMahon, Martina Comorkova, Michael Miller, Rebecca Kelly, S. Clay Sparkman, Shane Ryan Bailey, Stefanie Bennett, Carolyn Poindexter, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, J. Ray Paradiso, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.

"My Name Is Nobody" is a 2018 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the April 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http: //scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Allan Onik, Andrea Chancey, Anita G. Gorman, Ann Christine Tabaka, Anna Lewis, Benjamin Selesnick, Bonnie E. Carlson, Brandy Montilione, Carlos Frigo, Christina Lacourte, DC Diamondopolous, Drew Marshall, Feston Altus, Gary Van Haas, Gregg Dotoli, Harvey Havel, Isabelle Kenyon, Janet Kuypers, John Dorroh, John (Jake) Cosmos Aller, KB Imle, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kevin Grimm, Lawrence Basher, M. Griffith, Mo myers, Marc McMahon, Michael J. Harrington, Millard C. Davis, Olivia Keepe, Rajagopal Kaimal>, Scarlett R. Algee, Shannon Woodard, Susan Marie, T. William Wallin, Tom Ball, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.

"the Breaking" is a 2016 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the January/February 2016 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Denny E. Marshall (with Haiku (chicken/egg), Haiku (memory), Haiku (rivers/veins), Haiku (space), and Haiku (tossing)), Chris Johnson (with Politics in America), Zane Schneider (with You Are Dad), Janet Kuypers (with How He Failed), B. Mason (with Corpus Christine), Janet Kuypers (with study), Katherine McCormick (with The Breaking), Janet Kuypers (with years), Talon Lawrence (with Betrayal), Janet Kuypers (with knife), Dan Maltbie (with Fallen, Many Blessings, and Trustworthy), Eric Doubek (with Say Good-Bye To The Good Old Invisible World), Kenneth DiMaggio (with Poem #4 from The Oxycodone Highway, and Poem #5 from The Oxycodone Highway), Russ Bickerstaff (with The Shepherd of Potential), Poetic (with Please Read the Letter), Kyle Hemmings (with Who's Girl art), Wes Smith (with Life Over Breakfast), Janet Kuypers (with scorches), Ron Iannone (with Going Home), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with Primary Primal art), Terry C. Ley (with A Stormy Beginning), Janet Kuypers (with forever), Doug Draime (with Sentences (lies), and Editor Gives Advice On How To Get), (with Published In His Magazine), Eric Burbridge (with Coldness in the Heat), Liam Spencer (with High Holidays), Janet Kuypers (with job), Christopher Godwin (with The Time I Took to Bed), John Zedolik (with Life Urges), Allan Onik (with The Forgotten Isle), Janet Kuypers (with defenses), Allan Onik (with The Rose), C. D. Bonner (with Fall), Liz Yohemoore (with here you have arrived, and Stone Singing), David Sapp (with Happy), Drew Marshall (with Inpatient Impressions), Janet Kuypers (with existence), Kristen Welker (with In a Bullet Home), Carmen Tudor (with Gravenhurst), Marlon Jackson (with Just Wonders), Lindsey Loyd (with Sadness in Three Parts), A.J. Huffman (with I've Been Trying to Think, Mishandled, and The Clean Up Crew), Debasis Mukhopadhyay (with No country for a Jew), Mike Brennan (with Date of Discharge), Maria-Jose Villamar (with Our Date), Peter Halliday (with pursuing propinquity), and Janet Kuypers (with unless it happens to you).

"a Bad Influence" is a 2015 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the March/Aoril 2015 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include (in order in the book) Lisa Gray, Norm Hudson, Donald Gaither, Doug Draime, G. A. Scheinoha, Eric Burbridge, M. A. Schaffner, Liam Spencer, Drew Marshall, Benjamin Sabin, William Masters, Kevin Cooley, Matthew Horstkotter, Alexander Patterson, David Sapp, Allan Onik, Anastasia Kalos, Zak Patrick, Frank De Canio, Kathryn Lipari, S. R. Mearns, Kelley Jean White MD, Stephen McQuiggan, Peter McMillan, R. H. Palmer, Marlon Jackson, Jon Brunette, David J. Tabak, Jack Foraker, Lexi Lovetere, Fritz Hamilton, David Hernandez, Deanna Morris, Anne Britting Oleson, Eleanor Leonne Bennett (with art), and Janet Kuypers (with a select few haiku poems).

"Spitfire" is a 2018 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the September - October 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http: //scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Allan Onik, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Anne Mikusinski, Ashley Layco, Ben Brown, Doug Hawley, Drew Marshall, Emily Strauss, Eric Dreyer Smith, Frederick Pollack, Gabriella Shlyakh, Grace Ware, Hector Ramos, Janet Kuypers, James Mulhern, Jeff Briskin, John Kaprielian, John L. Stanizzi, John Zedolik, Layla Lenhardt, L'Dia Cantu, Mark Joseph Kevlock, Patty Ayers, Khalilah Okeke, Mike Schneider, Pavol Janik, Richard Lind, Ronald Charles Epstein, Sara Codair, Sarah Henry, Te'Livyvonne Starks Shae Starks, Tim Dadswel, Travis Green, William Ogden Haynes, Zachary Harris, Fabrice Poussin, Helen Bird, J. Ray Paradiso, and Olivier Schopfer

"On The Rocks" is a 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the July 2017 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alexander Smith, Allan Onik, Ben Rasnic, Bhargab Chatterjee, Bijit Sinha, Brian Looney, Carl Papa Palmer, Chanelle Pina, David Sapp, DC Diamondopolous, Denny E. Marshall, Donal Mahoney, Doug Hawley, Drew Marshall, E. Martin Pedersen, Elijah Deus, Garin Turner, Greg Stidham, Heather Chandler, Jack Moody, Janet Kupyers, Jan Marquart, Kennisha Wright, Kristyl Gravina, Liam Spencer, Marsha Foss, Norbert Kovacs, Rebecca Cowgill , Richard Schnap, Roger McKnight, S. R. Mearns, Tameka Jarmon, Tiana Edwards, Wayne Franklin and Wayne R Franklin, and art from Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings and Eleanor Bennett.

"The Painting" is a 2018 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the June 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http: //scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Abbey Faith Serena, Allan Onik, Ana Vidosavljevic, Andy Schenck, Beau Sherman, Cathy Porter, Cecilia Kennedy, Christina Basher, Donald Hubbard, Edna C. Horning, Elizabeth York Dickinson, Erin Farias, Francis Raven, James Mulhern, Janet Kuypers, JD DeHart, Kyle Cisco, Marc McMahon, Marcus Vance, Milton Ehrlich, Mitchel Montagna, Rae Monroe, Roger G. Singer, Ron Richmond, Suki Litchfield Kristin Litchfield, Teneale Moyer, Tom Bal, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Lavren Le'Clore, and Olivier Schopfer