The International Writer's Magazine: AUGUST 2012 Welcome

Destinations: Travel stories

Opinion: Politics & Comment

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Colorado to Mexico Eva Marcelle Clifford Flying into Houston, lightning pierces charcoal storm clouds; raindrops spill from tangerine skies and race down the cabin windows. The air’s electrifying, tingling with southern storms. Julia in Paris - Gala Dinner Celebration Saturday, September 8th, (Book Now) Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver Bad Christmas Travel Merry Malapascua John M Edwards The joys of off-season travel, on a depopulated paradise in the Philippines Fruit and Flowers in London Marianne de Nazareth Filling my landing card on the Emirates plane into Heathrow, London, I was blissfully unaware of the long wait ahead of me. Dublin and The Avoca Weavers Marianne de Nazareth Three leaved Shamrocks, Leprechauns, faries and elves. I had grown up with warm hearted Irish missionaries, who ran our catholic schools in India. Tall Tales of Tallinn John M. Edwards Arriving from Helsinki a while back aboard the ferryboat Albatross, with a copy of The Sagas in my backpack, I felt like a cold-eyed Viking prow crossing the blue water bile of the Baltic. A Moroccan 20-Dollar Foot Sidi Benzahra Cherkawi Because the road was narrow, I stopped my rented car to wait for another car to pass through, coming in from the opposite direction. We were in the City of Salé and the heat was blazing inside and the air-conditioning was running inside.

The Paul Ryan Factor James Campion. The VP pick is an important symbol for where the pre-convention narrative is going for a candidate, especially a challenger...Ryan has a personality; combative, unapologetic and recklessly youthful; all the things Romney is not Of Bread and Circuses Paul Hanley Noam Chomsky once described sports as a contrived opiate for the people; a means of distracting us from important social matters. Well, I always took issue with Mr. Chomsky on that matter, considering his opinion a little too extreme Spain - Rescued At Last? James Skinner It’s very hard to understand the deep rooted economic woes of Spain. The whole mess started thanks to the 1978 Constitution when the country was broken up into 17 autonomous regions with their own budgetary control and the 8000 odd town councils were given similar power. A-Riteway Construction Must be Stopped James Campion A-Riteway Construction has been allowed to run a deceitful, negligent and dangerously haphazard business here in New Jersey for far too long. Patience Thinner than Ice Danae Phelps in Greece I started off with Rum and Cola. 11:40am is not too early to start on alcohol; especially when one is theoretically on holiday. Before 13:00 I had moved on to Vodka and two kinds of juice...

Sacred Coca Josef Clifford The perilous route of the sacred coca leaf from Andean slopes to the cocaine market Jaws of a Dilemma Tony Fosgate I am bobbing about in a tiny boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the only sound is that of the choppy waters slashing at its sides Let the career choose you Watching the rain fall like sheets of metal spikes yesterday we knew summer was back to normal in England. Even the word summer seems incongruous somehow How to See Kiev in Three Hours Miriam Matejova Kiev has always been a golden city, but today - on my first visit to the Ukrainian capital - everyone is wearing orange Pankration James Morford Everyone knows that many Olympic Games events derive from the Olympia in ancient Athens. But how many know that the most popular sport at the ancient Olympic Games was what the Greeks called Pankration (in English “all powerful”)  The Upside of Old Men Allen R. Gibson I’ve been particularly struck by how impressed I’ve been by a couple of old men... We, as a society, don’t generally have much time for them. But I can tell you this – old men can be impressive!

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No Chemical Toxins Danae Phelps is going to wash that man right out of her mouth As I washed my teeth, I imagined all the tiny bits of others I was scrubbing away with the frothy tooth-paste. How much of them would my bristles collect and wash away? Resident of The Month 2 Martin Green “He murdered his wife, you know.” The speaker was Ezra Finch, intercepting me as I was on my way to interview his neighbor Horace Cooper for a Resident of the Month story Bittersweet Squalor Abigale George There are men in this world and then there are women (it doesn’t really matter what kind they are) and then there is me, the girl who has never completely grown up. Ex: as in expel, expunge, delete Sam North When she opens the door I’ll rush in, kill them both

The Other Son Jude C Perera ‘I am going Mother, Good Night’ She barely heard him; picking up whispers was a luxury at her age. She looked swiftly but he beat her to it. Those blue sparklers were tucked well away from her adoring gaze. Plan B Oswaldo Jimenez Arthur Kimball was not Audrey’s type. She knew it. He was half her height, and twice her age A Longboat Journey Susan Dale And as he sat in the lake pushing with his oars, he heard splashing in the background. Powerful swish-swishes of large wakes were breaking around his canoe to rock it back and forth. 'Like I am in a cradle.’ _________________________________ Summer In London - The Scary Clown

A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdi Al-Ahdal Published by Garnet Sam Hawksmoor review I have hesitated to write a review of 'A land without Jasmine', not because I didn’t enjoy this beautifully written novella but because it has a lasting haunting effect that is hard to shake off Tearing Up the Silk Road by Tom Coote Published by Garnet Sam North review Tom Coote set himself a target of going the whole distance of the ancient Silk Road by public transport in just nine weeks... one needs determination, fortitude and a very strong stomach - and that's just for the many scary toilets experienced on the way The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti Garnet Publishing Sam North Review Reading Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s first novel one is immediately conscious that this is must surely be non-fiction.  The details are so personal, so harrowing, yet so full of hope and triumph over evil, you desperately want it to be real. Angel Dust by Sarah Mussi Repent and be Saved. Sam Hawksmoor review When an Angel falls in love - she falls long and hard and Satan awaits In Praise of 'Vegan is Love' James Campion Author Ruby Roth's Alternative Literature for Kids My wife is a vegan and we are raising our daughter vegan. I am not a vegan nor am I a vegetarian. I am, for those familiar with this space, nothing. I could scarcely call myself human, really. I traded in my integrity for a moped and a six pack of Genesee Cream Ale in 1981

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