"the 23 enigma" is the June 2016 23 year anniversary issue Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v263) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d has been released every other month (with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include (listed in order of appearance) Charles Hayes (with "How Did I Ever Wind Up Here"), Richard Schnap (with "Dear Diary"), CEE (with "Love as a verb ", "'Tween the Ears is Too Short"), Eric Burbridge (with "Forgiveness"), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with "Looking Up at the Sky art"), Xanadu (with "Sarajevo Blues (Pt I)", "Wu Xianlin after Rodin art"), Dan Fitzgerald (with "My Time"), Kyle Hemmings (with "Clock Ricepap art"), Erren Kelly (with "A New Pair Of Kicks", "The Queen Of Old Orchard Beach Maine"), the HA!Man of S. Africa (with "Paris art"), Steve DeFrance (with "Do It Yourself Bukowski Multople Choice"), Rose E. Grier (with "Party Here art"), Brian Looney (with "The Fever Which She Inspired"), Patrick Fealey (with "The Jester", "Mastering Fine Accidents"), Drew Brashaw (with "Trampled"), Eric bonholtzer (with "5954 art"), Alicia Berdeguez (with "A Simple Recalculation of Vows"), JoyAnne O'Donnell (with "Rose Water"), Brian Forrest (with "Western Flax Flower art"), David Lester Young (with "What you had to have"), Brian &?Lauren Hosey (with "White Sands, Osha, Dog Canyon art"), Teresa Roberson (with "Before I Learned"), zeyir Lokman ayci (with "UZEYIR DF1K art"), David Michael Jackson (with "Made any Difference ar