"The Zero Sum of Talking Heads" is a 2020 Scars Publications cc&d magazine (v301, the September 2020 issue) 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 either monthly or 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 Anna Halabi, CEE, James Mulhern, Janet Kuypers, John F. McMullen, Linda M. Crate, M. E. Murray, Mehreen Ahmed, Michael Summerleigh, Mike Schneider, Robert Levin, Stella Raedeker, Thom Woodruff, Tom Ball, Aaron Wilder, Allen F. McNair, Christina Culverhouse, David J. Thompson, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Helen Bird, Kyle Hemmings, Uzeyir Lokman Cayci, and Westley Heine.