"Idols" is a 2014 Scars Publications cc&d magazine (249.4, a 21 year bonus anniversary issue/book) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religios, NON-family oriented literart and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1994, but starting in 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (ISSN# 1068-5154), but also an ISBN#. In honor of the 2014 ISBN# issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design.This bonus 2014 21 yea anniversary release issue/book from cc&d highlights anniversary & June issues of cc&d from 2003-2009,plus bonus 2014 poetry literally about children, churches and daddies. Cover art from this magazine / book is a photo of the shadows of the editor and her husband in the sand, taken at Lake Michigan north of Chicago 9/14/13. Along the back cover are also images of front covers of issues of cc&d reflected in this collectioon book/issue. Writers and artists in this book include Charles Michael Craven, Rose E. Grier (art), CEE, Mark Graham (art), Julie Kovacs, Michael Ceraolo, Tanya Rucosky Noakes, Lucy Winrow, Michael S. Morris, Melanie Monterey (art), J. Neff Lind, Kevin Leal, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (art), Janet Kuypers, Louie Crew, Aaron Wilder (art), Christian Ward, Je'free, Jason Cimino, Cheryl Townsend (art), Sara Crawford, Jamie Connell, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (art), Boundary, Kelly Ann Malone, David Lawrence, Adam Joseph Ortiz, C. Ra McGuirt (donated photo), Kenneth DiMaggio, KC Wilder, Frank Anthony, Adriana De Castro (art) , Wayne Mason, Robert Lee Brewer, Heather Dorn, Ryan Downey, Nathan B. Smith, Tyler Joseph Wiseman, Christopher Barnes, Cheryl Townsend (art), A. D. Winans, Belinda Subraman, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (art), Andrew Grossman, H. Berariu, Michelle Greenblatt, Marisa Foltz, Bobbi Dykema Katsanis, CL Bledsoe, Chris Major, Arthur Gottlieb, Cody Callahan, Shari O'Brien, Tanya L. Ranta, Marie Kazalia, John Vick, Durlabh Singh, Burton R. Hoffmann, J. Dyson, Pamela Engel, Tony Bush, Mary B. Chow, Richard Fein, Charlie Newman, Rose E. Grier, Roger Stukey, Carolyn Garwes, Nick Bruno, James Norcliffe, Joseph Farley, Susan Osterman, Rochelle Hope Mehr, R. N. Taber, Justin Taylor, Tom Racine, John Dorsey, Janet Kuypers, Carol Kanter, Michael Lee Johnson, Jerry Pendergast, Jenene Ravesloot, Tom Roby, Suzanne Hollis, Christine Sorich (art), Jim Meirose, Junior McLean (art), Cole D. Lemme, and Peter Bates (art).

"a New Era" is a 2014 Scars Publications cc&d magazine (249.2, a 21 year bonus anniversary issue/book) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religios, NON-family oriented literart and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1994, but starting in 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (ISSN# 1068-5154), but also an ISBN#. In honor of the 2014 ISBN# issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design.This bonus 2014 21 yea anniversary release issue/book from cc&d highlights anniversary & June issues of cc&d from 1993-1997,plus bonus 2014 poetry literally about children, churches and daddies. Cover art from this magazine / book is reflective of v54 of cc&d magazine, with a light bulb superimposed over a beach scene (taken in Puerto Rico in 2003), with dolphin placed in th water (originally taken near the Galapagos Islands in 2007). Alone the back cover are also images of front covers of issues of cc&d reflected in this collectioon book/issue. Writers and artists in this book include Larry Blazek, Charles Ardinger, David Cooper, Daniel Crocker, John Hayes, Gary Jurechka, John Alan Douglas, Lyn Lifshin, C Ra McGuirt, C. C. Russel, Carl Herr, Ian Griffin, Victor Salinas, Geoff Stevens, Errol Miller, Pete Cholewinski, christopher tm, John Sweet, Ariane Livernois, Alice Olds-Ellington, Dan Landrum, Michael Estabrook, Michael Estabrook, Paul Weinman, Cheryl Townsend, Thomas Kretz, M. Kettner, Brandon Freels, Joanne Seltzer, Richard King Perkins II, Alan Catlin, Mary Winters, Robert L. Penick, Peter Scott, David E. Cowen, Daniel Rand, Philip A. Waterhouse, you bet, Harlan Lyman, Jerry-Mac Johnston, Jordana Abraham, Jim Maddocks, Joyce Carbone, Rachel Crawford, Peter 'oddball' Mattias Durril, oan Papalia Eisert, Richard M. Grove, Ray Heinrich, Deckard Kinder, Janet Kuypers, Michael Lee Johnson, Jenene Ravesloot, Jerry Pendergast, David Hernandez, Robert Lawrence, Vera Spitz, Fritz Hamilton, Tom Roby, Vittorio Carli, Caren M. Lissner, Brian McNabb, Joseph Skinner, and Debra Purdy Kong.

Twenty poems tracking the the grieving process from attending to the dying loved one to achieving the ironic acceptance of the loss and presence of the departed. This collection presents a complex view of grieving as a shifting path with only a general direction and various retracings of footsetps. It is also an example of a creative process of identifying, embracing, and moving beyond the troubling points of the cycle of grieving.

"Friction" is a 2014 Scars Publications cc&d magazine (249.6, a 21 year bonus anniversary issue/book) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religios, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1994, but starting in 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (ISSN# 1068-5154), but also an ISBN#. In honor of the 2014 ISBN# issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design.This bonus 2014 21 year anniversary release issue/book from cc&d highlights the 17 year anniversary issue of cc&d(v209), plus bonus 2014 poetry literally about children, churches and daddies. (There is even a bonus Lisa Hemminger pem from the 1999 issues book release "Rinse and Repeat".) Cover art from this magazine / book is from the original v209 magazine cover, of a water tower from an active nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania (photographed 9/9/09). Writers and artists in this book include CEE, Derek Richards, Charlie Newman, Xanadu, R. N. Taber, Erica Hegenderfer, kalifornia, Jeff Wyman, Matthew Czerwinski, Henry Sosnowski, Je’free, Michael Lee Johnson, Jenene Ravesloot, Twenty-Four Hours, Tom Roby, Sunday, Dad, Elizabeth Harper, Lisa Hemminger, David Hernandez, Janet Kuypers, Mel Waldman, Ronald Brunsky, Jennifer Marie Theresa Spencer, Robert Hynes, Danny Rider, Valor Brown, John Duncklee, Dina Hendawi-Coppes, Rufus Ryan, and Jim Meirose.

We extend the periodicity of birational rowmotion for rectangular posets to the case when the base field is replaced by a noncommutative ring (under appropriate conditions). This resolves a conjecture from 2014. The proof uses a novel approach and is fully self-contained.

"Poet as Sociopath" is the poetry collection book based on the 2013 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine, published by Scars Publications. Contributors in this colledction book inlcude Editor's Choice Contest Winner Paul Bellerive, and Janet Kuypers, Michael D. Brown , Kenneth DiMaggio, Maria A. Arana, Willie Haul, Ben Macnair, Liam Spencer, Jonathan Beale, Travis Green, Matthew Horstkotter, Alex S. Johnson, Bradley Bates, Lucia Blinn, Doug Draime, Simon Perchik, Pepper Giese, Richard King Perkins II, I.B. Rad, Marlon Jackson, Jenene Ravesloot, S. Progress, Bruce Matteson, Hannah Haas, Michael Ceraolo, Travis Green, Brian Looney, Nick Viglietta, Jason D. Cooper, Tom Roby, CEE, Linda Webb Aceto, Gregory Liffick, Eric Burbridge, Dan Fitzgerald, S. R. Mearns, , Bill Yarrow, Roland Stoecker, Kelly Haas Shackeforld, Tom Curry, Roger Cowin, George Gott, Corey Cook, Fritz Hamilton, Oz Hardwick, Erren Kelly, Wes Heine, Christopher Mulrooney, Guy J. Jackson, David (Buddha) Hargarten, MCD, Erin Neckels, Emilio Maldonado, Jessica Pilgreen, Emily Calvo, William Robison, Carlos Rojas Jr. (Lcpl Rojas), Joe Roarty, Caroline N. Simpson, Devon Sova, Mike R. Weaver, Dana Stamps, II, Jeff Stinson, Will C. Superior, R. N. Taber, David J. Thompson, Kelley Jean White MD, Jerry Pendergast, Andrew H. Oerke, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Neal Wilgus, Vol Lindsey, Robert Lawrence, David S. Pointer, Holly Day, Mel Waldman, Dempsey Garcia, Phillip A. Ellis, Christopher Hanson, Josh Gaines, Sean J Mahoney, Allen M Weber, Kerry Lown Whalen, Robert Heath, John T. Hitchner, CK Baker, D.S. Maolalai, James T. Carr, Esteban Colon, R.F. Jordan, Mary Mac Neil, Ryan Peeters, Eric S., David Michael Schmidt, and William Robison.