The International Writer's Magazine: - Our 12th Year - September 2011 - Welcome

Destinations: Travel stories & guides

Opinion: Politics & Issues

Lifestyles: Ways of living

Six reasons why you should travel alone after a rough breakup. Mariusz Stankiewicz First is regaining a sense of freedom Far Rockaway Dean Borok Every summer about this time, the Fort Tilden Beach in Far Rockaway gets hit by an infestation of biting flies that incubate in the Gateway National Recreation Area Nice: A Cultural Divide John Welsh When it comes to eating and drinking, the cultures do not seem to merge. Sleepless in St John John M Edwards John succumbs to the lures and snares of Caribbean ecotourism— on the romantic eve of 'Miss Lucy’s Pig Roast Full Moon Party'! Singin' on the Love Boat Charles E J Moulton The cruise liner was my address for six months. My job was to sing and act in seven shows

The Joe Cool Double Reverse Hail Mary - James Campion Let it be known that on 9/8/11 at 7:10 pm in a joint session of congress on Capitol Hill, the 2012 presidential election campaign of Barack Hussein Obama began in earnest. ETA, the Pope and Spain James Skinner August has been a rather hectic month with all kinds of horrors occurring in the world. Libya and Syria have contributed with the never-ending saga of citizens’ revolts that nobody really knows how it’s all going to end Jerash, A Roman Secret Marwan Asmar It's a truly amazing experience to sit and watch military scenes that resemble those you enjoyed watching in the “Gladiator” movie in Jerash, Jordan.

From Hard Drive to Kindle: My Quest into Online Publishing Frances Lewis It really isn't that hard. Even for a technologically inept person like me. What was difficult was the decision to self-publish in The Dukkering Boy in first place. Fighting Fit at K-1 Fight Factory preparing for an MMA Fight Antonio Graceffo On day six of training, with two K-1 Fight Factory instructors pushing me, I broke my personal record Fasting in Amman David C Clemmons In an effort to absorb more of the cultural nuances of Jordan, I decided to participate in the fasting aspect of Ramadan Street Art in San Francisco Arny Pickholtz (Video essay) Fighting in Port Barton James Roth “Chickens?” I asked. “For fighting,” he answered. "Every Sunday."

FICTION

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REVIEWS Film & Books

For the Thousandth Time: I met her in a Bar Joshua Bantum A friend of mine understands my hopeless romanticism, and also the self destruction that follows it, but she never understood the type of women I choose to pursue Sacramento Spring  Martin Green In recent weeks I’d been thinking a lot about my secretary Jane Harper and now here she was.  “Mind if I join you?” she asked. Along A Seashell Path Susan Dale Hurrying down the hardscrabble roads with wheelbarrows bumping along in front of them, the villagers stooped to gather up the stony remains of a bombed-out cathedral Old Man and the Boy Margaret Clapham Jack Marley wiped the small blobs of shaving cream from his face. The image that stared out of the foggy mirror was someone he didn’t want to know

Strip Chris Castle Ryan sat in the strip club trying to look any other place but at the dancers. It was bad enough that he had ended up in such a dive, that his oldest friend, Steve, was drunk beyond all recognition Screw Lacy Lalonde Two years and still counting. A tick for each day etched into the inside of the bars that hold me captive. I have counted them every day. Yesterday there were 711, today there are 712. Two years First Flame Bruce Harris I put down the magazine. I have to think, the kind of thinking which needs solitude. ‘Rob’, I say, ‘I’d like a bath. Can you manage?’ Something in the neighbourhood Chris Castle We all sat in the dusk on Bobby’s porch that looked out onto the neighbourhood. Above us was the sunset but we didn’t acknowledge that. Instead, all we talked about was the killer, the next victim and the neighbourhood.

Warrior Rob Myers Theoretically, Warrior is the type of film that audiences should flock to in droves. It is a sports drama (Mixed Martial Arts, in this case) with familial conflict at its center and the notion of overcoming all odds at its heart. Trackers by Deon Meyer Sam North review Complex spy/action thriller set in crime infested South Africa grips you completely Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Charlie Dickinson Death and the Penquin by Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov recalls the classic Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West. Both novels are rich with black humor about writers working for cynical newspaper editors and publishing under pseudonyms. Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam Sam North review a wonderful examination of a crack in time, haunting, passive, yet compelling The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Sam Hawksmoor review an emotional roller coaster and well deserved of its worldwide success Film of the Month: The Guard starring Brendan Gleeson & Don Cheadle - politically incorrect - hilarious and oddly moving movie about a lone cop in Galway, Ireland paired with a FBI agent.

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