The International Writer's Magazine: April 2012 Editorial

Destinations: Travel stories

Opinion: Politics & Comment

Lifestyles How we live

Spreewald. Germany Norman Wolfer We never cease to be amazed at just how the Berlin/Brandenburg area excels in providing these historically significant and contemporary points of interest, within easy one day outings. Morocco Sahara Odyssey Charlotte Temple Morocco is a country filled with history, fabulous food, incredible scenery, warm and friendly people and a little bit of mystery.  Casa Pilerne in Goa, India Marianne de Nazareth It's a great feeling, for never in all our years of driving down to Goa, in South India, from Bangalore, have we ever arrived, in time, to eat lunch in Panjim, on the same day that we left. Around the world in 30 days J West Hardin - Part Two Shanghai to Helsinki Our next leg was going to take us through Shanghai airport as transit passengers enroute to Helsinki , Finland. Classical Elegance Nick Constance 8 days, 4 ships, 3 concerts and 7 locations –a magical musical tour through the French countryside Exile in Bogota Dermot Sullivan I find myself this Easter in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. It is much quieter here than in Mexico, with none of the passion plays of orgiastic violence which Mexicans seem to celebrate Thanks for Driving Around John Vaughn I was taken somewhat aback earlier this month when I overheard some of the fellows in the clubhouse referring to the fact that the earth’s climate was improving due to the traffic congestion on the highways.

GOP Lockdown James Campion Republican Establishment Cleans House Reince Priebus is on the wagon. The RNC chairman's days of drunken violence and crude behavior are behind him. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and the faux conservative uprising of 2010 has been duly defeated The Buffet Rule? James Campion It's national campaign time and the Democrats have joined the crazy. Six months of idiocy from the Republicans was apparently enough. Check that; to understand what is going on in congress with what is officially coined the Paying a Fair Share Act is merely the volley returned for the TEA Party induced mayhem that stalled Capitol Hill during last year's Debt Ceiling Debate. Back to 1934 (10.04.12 Update) The Spectre of Civil War James Skinner on Modern Spain 1934 was the year Spain went completely berserk and divided the country into dozens if not hundreds of political factions of all sorts that eventually led Generalissimo Franco to come back from Morocco a beat the hell out of all of them A Rational  Perspective Barry Mayhew Some time ago, a friend who was experiencing a particularly perplexing period in his life due to financial and marital misfortunes, offered the comment that “life is really a crap shoot.”

The Bigger Man Dietrich Kalteis Fly the friendly skies, my ass. Bumpy as a back road. First the security dick with that stupid scanning device, making me open my suitcase, embarrassing the hell out of me... Observations Martin Green Phones - and automation The London Book Fair 2012 Sam North China and Digital signal the big changes A Month of Letters Chris Mills I had come across a letter writing challenge A Month of Letters set up by American author Mary Robinette Kowal. challenge in February On the Hemingway Trail Habeeb Salloum Some years ago, on a trip to Havana, Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel is reported to have said: “Cuba has three icons - Che and Fidel and my grandfather." Durham Eleanor Ross Durham’s crooked grey streets, stone castle and slow paced river attract coachloads of tourists every year. Lonely Planet’s ‘Thousand Things to do Before You Die’ book cites Durham as a top destination for visitors to Britain. The Missing Ritual Barry Mayhew Since the beginning of recorded history, and likely long before, humans have given special recognition to important events that occur, often quite predictably, throughout the various stages of the life cycle.

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Holy Week Helen Terry Loneliness often drives me to ask for advice from others instead of relying on my own judgement. Being a woman does it too; I haven't developed the unshakeable confidence in my own opinion that seems second nature to men of my acquaintance. The Coward Martin Green Since grade school, Tom Newberry knew he was a coward.  It wasn’t anything he did but what he didn’t do. Come the Revolution Clare Sager I threw the car keys on the table. ‘We need to get out of here.’ Clear and simple – no time for misunderstandings. Getting Out Of Bed Vanessa Telaro In her reverie, Andie was about seventeen years old. Some parts of her skin were clear and others marred with blemishes. She was thin, always had been thanks to a good metabolism. Her hair had always been in the shades of blonde except for the time she’d dyed it black in an attempt to look different Ironclad Oswaldo Jimenez They had reached a phase in their relationship she called ‘cocooning.’  “Everyone in our age-range is doing it,” she had said to him with a smug, matter-of-fact tone in her voice that reminded him of the tone his mother had used when calling him to dinner.

Fountain kerb Chris Castle "You’re last day today?" She looked down to her sandwich, looked back up. "Yeah. Bit part dies then its back to the stars I guess." Gingerbread Men Steve Slatter First, ask Mummy to turn on the oven to 170. You might have to wait for her to do this because she’s always busy. Mirror, Mirror... Oswaldo Jimenez Annabelle walked into her tiny bathroom and  stood before the full-length mirror with the same resignation of Joan of Arc waiting for the executioner to light a fire beneath her Cabin Fever Dietrich Kalteis Clay juggled the plate of jelly sandwiches and mugs of coffee. Glumness hung over Vivian like smog. Shaking the snow cone, she sat on the plump sofa, boxed in by the paneling lined with trophy heads. All those glass eyes staring down.

Cold Comfort by Quentin Bates Sam North review Second Outing for Sergeant Gunnhildur in this riveting Icelandic murder investigation. A terrific read rich in every detail. The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor Evie Seo - Bookish Blog Review - The Repossession was absolutely amazing! It's mesmerizing, clever, captivating, in short it is everything you could possibly hope for in a book Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet Review by John M Edwards Her wickedly perverse sense of humor is as deliciously burlesque as Dorothy Parker riffing at the Algonquin Roundtable. The Terror Of Tiny Town Dan Schneider The Terror Of Tiny Town is a 1938 dwarf B film (Black and white) that is often spoken of in the same terms as two other films with dwarves in them- Tod Browning’s 1931 film, Freaks, and Werner Herzog’s 1970 film Even Dwarfs Started Small

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