The International Writer's Magazine: February 2013 WELCOME

Destinations: Travel stories

Opinion: Politics & Comment

Lifestyles How we live

Yamoussoukro: Capital of Ghosts John M. Edwards visits a monument to megalomania in West Africa: The Ivory Coast's city of Parisian-style boulevards, empty eight-lane highways, and Christendom's tallest church--all of it dead-ending in jungle King Herod Exhibition Opens 2.12.13 – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, premieres the world’s first exhibition on the life and legacy of Herod the Great, one of the most influential – and controversial – figures in ancient Roman and Jewish history. It’s About Time Walli F. Leff As New Year’s Eve approached, my husband and I mulled over how we might celebrate this hedonic fiesta of bidding the time past good-bye and embarking on a fresh supply of new minutes in an excited public countdown in New York. Lost and Found Dawn Nicole Parks Journeying through the Philippines on my first backpacking trip in two years, I discovered a nightmare which every hardcore traveller believes he or she will avoid – awaking drugged and penniless. The Mauritian Chronicles John M Edwards John grabs his beachcomber's card and lands in Mauritius with an impending holiday of Divali coming, replete with partying Brahma Bums and Nowhere Men A dive bar in Bahrain Leroy B. Vaughn My supervisor came to me one day and told me that I would need to go to Bahrain for one day, in order to keep my visa status in Qatar. _________________________________ Congrats to John M Edwards for winning 2 NATJA awards for Hacktreks Destinations in 2012 Koh Commotion: Mr. Friendly & Viking Voluntourism: Tall Tales of Tallinn."

Joe Cool Budget - Guns- Immigration- Education Tour 2013 James Campion President Ignores Congress, Freezes Out Media and Takes It to the Streets '...although I revel in stupidity, I am bored with it at the moment' Life (& Death) During Perpetual Wartime James Campion The government has the complete autonomy to kill us. This jives with the previous month's story on why the American people must be armed to the teeth to defend themselves against such cold-blooded attacks. Readers Responses to James Campion on Guns What are you saying here? We're all at fault? Or none of us are at fault? Three Deadly Sins in Spain James Skinner In February, 2009 the newspaper ‘El Pais’ uncovered a massive network of bribery and corruption that was codenamed ‘The Gürtel Case’ that involved Madrid and Valencia, governed by the conservatives. Solving America's Problems Martin Green There are still a few problems confronting our nation.  Some of these are the federal budget, the federal deficit, airport security, immigration, realty television, vampire movies, Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and as ever, Lindsey Lohan

Miami Design District Eleanor Ross Exploring the cultural side of a City known for partying Latin Dancing Across 110th Street Dean Borok I have asserted all along that New Yorkers should be compelled to attend charm school, so I decided to take my own advice. The place I chose, the Lorenz Latin Dance Studio, is located in Spanish Harlem Maddalen Lionel Darmendrail remembers a favourite Aunt I come from Euskadi, the land of the Basque, located on the Pyrenees between France and Spain, lapping at the Atlantic ocean, where Maddalen was born Autumn in August Tyrel Nelson I’m fluttering like a streamer attached to a fan. A fan, however, is the last thing I need right now. I grab at the Ranger’s console and crank the heat on high. Hot air fills the Ford, but goose bumps keep popping through my skin. “A postcard sent from gods”: this is how poet Andrea Zanzotto loved to define Rolle di Cison di Valmarino, a village surrounded by the soft hills of Treviso, in Veneto 24 Hours in Budapest John M Edwards Awakening you to head off to a real Budapest Baths, or “gyogyafurdo” (natural springs). Japanese Houseguest John M Edwards receives a strange visitor from Japan who is, of course, despite a strong yen, ultimately a castoff and a skinflint Just Another Love Story Fisayo Talabi So it was 14th February once again, and I woke up with this odd feeling that something strange was going to happen.

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Key Oswaldo Jimenez There’s really no way to prepare for the death of a parent. When it happens, it happens when you least expect it. When it happens, you grieve, but you feel relieved. Guilty, but relieved. Eventually, guilt subsides and the chore of setting things right begins The Importance of Napkins Sam Hawksmoor Scribble , scribble, scribble I am My Yes Nate Rabe It was the middle of the afternoon, the middle of summer and the middle of nowhere.  The train had rolled to a halt some time ago. An iron cobra too exhausted to crawl to shelter The Seven-Minute Round George Sparling I jammed my eyebrows down, balled my fists, and threw some neat jabs at ex-boxer Dickie, my dad, who me taught me to throw punches like a man in the basement of our house. Imagine Oswaldo Jimenez Imagine this: freshly sliced limes, salt, smoke from cigarettes, perfume. Now, imagine this: bottles, glasses, mirrors, stools, tables. The Drink Martin Green We were at a bar, watching a 49er game.  The 49ers scored a touchdown. Everyone cheered and one of the guys, Hugh Ballard, threw up his arms, then picked up my drink and finished it off.  “Hey,” I said, “that was my drink.”

Author Interview A Q & A with Sam Hawksmoor on the launch of his new YA novel set in 1941 & 2013. 'The Repercussions of Tomas D' The River Daniel Cooke The boat did not rock. It moved straight, so straight in fact that I became unsure as to whether the boat was harnessed to a pulley system beneath the clear black water. Requiem for a Hero - Tiresias Reed Stirling “Elas, Elas!” yells a workman in black, attempting to lead a donkey with wooden planks tied across its back and panniers on either side full of terracotta bricks.

Southern Comfort Interrupted James Campion In Praise of a New Revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Scarlett Johannson Lincoln Directed by Steven Spielberg Screenplay Tony Kushner Marcel D'Agneau review About a quarter way in in this bio-pic of President Lincoln’s last few weeks of life I kept wishing I was watching John Adams ... Wreck-it Ralph Directed by: Rich Moor Holly Trinder review So we're entering the digital matrix that is the world inside the arcade. How many of us (us older kids anyway) spent our money senselessly but deservedly at the American style arcades playing the old classics?

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