The International Writer's Magazine: JANUARY 2015 Welcome

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Opinion: Politics & Comment

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Travels with Mathias in the Yucatan Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger “We were told,” said Mathias, “that this is really the entrance to the underworld.”  Chennai Express A city of 4 million, and the Chennai Express, one big road, shared by rusting cycles, three wheelers, vintage bus behemoths, and water buffalo Bad Dreams in Turtuk Bad Mike stranded in Turtuk Sadly no one has ever died of unhappiness. Many have perished in landslides and rock falls. Some may even have perished from eating rancid cabbage. Bon Bini Curacao Fred C Wilson 111 Willemstad is divided in two halves by shark infested Santa Anna Bay The Terrible Wonderful Beautiful Trip - Abbay McCandless The best trip of my life consisted of a lost credit card, a lack of lodging arrangements and a crumpled twenty-euro note. Twenty euros that is, in a country that uses the pound as its currency.

Super Taint James Campion Cheating New England Patriots Befoul Super Bowl Again Deflate-gate will officially put a stain on the big game and its multi-billion dollar sport. 114th Congress Welcome to the Jungle James Campion And so the right to govern is upon the Republican Party, which has bitched for six years that it was the minority Little Nicolas and more James Skinner on Spain More corruption cases at all levels of public entities continue to surface on practically a daily basis... Rudderless Britain Tom Kilcourse In 2015 we British will be asked to elect a new government... The pre-election bun-fight has begun already Police Line: Do Not Cross Dean Borok A lot of this sloganeering of “Support the Police” can be construed as a declaration of war on Black people. When Google Met WikiLeaks: Julian Assange & The Making Of A Live-Long Pattern- Alex Sheremet openness and transparency are wonderful things, people forget that these ideas cut in the other direction, as well Thatcher’s Legacy Tom Kilcourse The roots our our discontent

Free Speech Tom Kilcourse There is enormous irony and not a little hypocrisy to be found in the reaction to the massacre in Paris of the staff of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine The Man in the High Castle Sam Hawksmoor One of Philip K Dick's most fully realised works is now on Amazon TV Where are we now…? K E Sidwell You’ve finished your degree ... Can you now honestly define in a nutshell what excites you - “the career path you want to take”? Besame Mucho Dean Borok Dancers are the ultimate snobs. She may work in an office all day, but on the dancefloor she is a star... Nigeria still at 54 The bad-luck of having Leaders that cannot lead - Adewale T Akande A set of leaders are now tearing apart what is supposed to be the giant of Africa After the Surgery Martin Green It was my first day home after knee replacement surgery... it still was, as my doctor reminded me, major surgery. Je Suis Charlie A Call For Satirical Jihad James Campion

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Sylvia Plath Abigail George The waves breaking against the shoreline. I am lying on my back. It is a pleasant day. All I see is blue. Blue passing me. Not a cloud in the sky. Not a silver lining. Eponine in Paris Excerpt From “The Third Eye of the Needle”- Novella by Dean Borok Parisians went to church and prayed for a return to the old ways, but in their hearts they knew that these conditions did not just spring up from nowhere. BEST OF 2014 The Honest Politician Jude C Perera Banu winced, embarrassment could also cause tangible pain, he knew now. His young protégé was digging her grave quite busily and excitedly. She had obviously taken his advice from one ear and had spat it out from the other

Hide Your Books Ajay Patri Does this really mean no more punishment? Like, ever again? Download Magenta Life begins somewhere between the fish and the stars BEST OF 2014 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

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Orion Paperback Feb 2015 Sam Hawksmoor review Cinderella re-invented for the 21st Century The Doubt Factory by Paulo Bacigalupi Sam Hawksmoor review a modern take on the Patti Hearst story with a really hard message about the drugs you swallow The Days Of Wine And Roses Dan Schneider review October 2nd, 1958 Playhouse 90 episode scripted by J.P. Miller, and directed by John Frankenheimer from Criterion...

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