“Testing the Darkness”
welcome to volume 232 (the June 2025 issue)
of Down in the Dirt magazine


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Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
James Bates Time Will Tell
Bio
Alan Ford Rent-a-Womb
Patrick G. Roland Testing the Darkness
Bio
Nancy Machlis Rechtman High Five
Bio
Jimmy R. Coleman Bush had it right... There were indeed
active WMDs in Iraq!
Bio
Scars Publications Oil Pump in desert
Texas oil pump 6/20/21 on top of sand from image 1365 on Santa Fe Island
at the Galapagos Islands 12/24/07 (Copyright © 12/24/07-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Holly Thomas Conversations with a Nihilistic Rainbow Trout
Isabel G. de Diego Palms 2 photography
Pam Munter The Alphabet Streets Are Gone.
Bio
Scars Publications California beach
(Copyright © 1997-2025 Janet Kuypers)
John Farquhar Young Ex!
Bio
Horia Alexandru Pop Dreams of Escape photography
Bill Tope I Remember
Force of Habit
Stuti Jain Toys
completion
outcast
Bio
Alan Ford The Winning Loser.
Laura Zucca-Scott The monster within
Bio
James Nelli Taps on the Ceiling
Daniel de Culla Sacred Shore 5 and 6 photography
Bio
Humayun Malik Immorality
Bio
Wes Heine types written illustration
Allan Onik Pizza Parlor
Mike Rader Read all about it!
Bio
Janet Kuypers Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species
(+ 8/22/17 “This Just In” show images 1 & 2, and the
“(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” front cover image)
Fingers Black
(+ “partial nudity” & “tweet”, book covers containing this poem)
Bio
Jacob Alexander Cameras
Clarence Allan Ebert War, Blood & Red Ants
Bio
Iftekhar Sayeed strange, strange fruit
Bio
David Sowards On the Subject of Abortion
Janet Kuypers Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Rights
(+ 8/9/23 show images 1, 2, & 3, and
“Testament” front cover image)
Only Pose What I Know
(+ 6/28/23 show images 1 & 2)
Bio
Jason Ryberg Strange Frequencies
Bio
Ramiro Valdes Lips
Bio
June Wolfman Three O’clock Fights Six O’clock
Donald Reed Greenwood Glendalough drawing
Meg Newman Down by the River
Bio
Binod Dawadi Cubism Drawings art
Bio
Sterling Warner 69: The Delma/Willow Line
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz A Curious Incident art
Elena Botts Breaking into the Liberal Arts Industry
Bio
Raha.M FCn832xXEAUDrxw art
Yucheng Tao Crows
Bio
Terry Tierney Gravity
Bio
Lee Hammerschmidt Bottoms up drawing
Bio
Laura Zucca-Scott The music played
Bio
Sara Vernekar Borderland
Bio
Ebisike Chinedum Kenneth Two-Faced drawing
Bio
Peter McMillan Imperial Musth and the Gifted Brain
Bio
David Sowards “Bread” cartoon
Barbara Krasner Teaching the Holocaust:
An Eight-Exercise Preparation Guide
Bio
Scars Publications Arbeit Macht Frei gate
Dachau, Germany (Copyright © 5/15/03-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Ciara M. Blecka The Death of Empathy
Tanner Scott Inheritance
Janet Kuypers Yeah
(+ A Foot Fantasia 10/07 2 images from animated lead image,
and photograph from show)
Your Soul is Shaking
(+ video still from performing the poem)
Story Telling
(+ 3/28/15 Journey show images 1 & 2)
Bio

 
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