Ana Vidosavljevic

Places records the miraculous moments that give life meaning and even a touch of the sublime. A short story collection set around the world, from Bali to Serbia, Iran to India, Places explores what can rupture a life and what is the way back to happiness, and even transcendence. A widow finds new hope in the music of a long-dead composer, a devout Sufi struggles to keep his traditions alive, one young woman finds her calling in solitary farm life, another breaks from her sheltered past to embrace the wide world. In these modern folk tales, rivers speak, the forest acts out, and everyday objects play mysterious roles in human affairs. This is a collection of outsiders looking for something to anchor their lives, and often finding it in the most unexpected and wondrous places...

"An incredibly un-putdown-able selection of the short fiction. It's rare I consider short story collections page-turners, but there was just one masterful read after another. A must-read " (from the editorial review)Ana Vidosavljevic from Serbia currently living in Indonesia. She has her work published or forthcoming in Down in the Dirt (Scar Publications), Literary Yard, RYL (Refresh Your Life), The Caterpillar, The Curlew, Eskimo Pie, Coldnoon, Perspectives, Indiana Voice Journal, The Raven Chronicles, Setu Bilingual Journal, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Madcap Review, The Bookends Review, Gimmick Press, (mac)ro(mic), Scarlet Leaf Review.

"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.