The International Writer's Magazine: Our Tenth Year - 2009 - Welcome
Happy New Year to all our readers

Destinations: Travel stories & guides

Opinion: Politics & Issues

Lifestyles: Ways of living

Destination Unknown John M Edwards The only problem with the New Years vacation I was taking was that the destination was right smack dab in the middle of a war zone! Poland - A Country of Doubts David Russell "Why are we here? Why, with a world of travel alternatives, had we picked Poland?" Al-Khazneh & the Grail Piotr Wesolowski The search continues for Christiany's holy relics Rainwater Ceremony Song David Calleja Today is a very important day in the history of Tropangs Dok village, for the concept of rain and its decision to grace its presence over the village will be honoured with a song. North to Alaska Sam Black Petoskey sits on Lake Michigan and if you haven’t been there I suggest you visit it someday Winter in Warsaw Marianne de Nazareth If you come from a warm country, Poland is hardly inviting in the depths of winter

Curioser and curioser! Annie Lalla The forces of curiosity and imagination pull us towards pleasure, expansion and integration with the rest of the world. Together they form a character profile in each of us. 0h-Nine: The Year of the Guilty James Campion + Readers Letters Two-thousand nine will be the year of The Guilty. Exoneration is in the air. Free rides. Hard promises. Credentials for all; particularly those who don't deserve them Entropy Jeannine Pitas I can’t stand it when someone yells at me. It really doesn’t matter who it is Troubled Times Dan Crossen is looking for a Hero Heroes is a television show that that uses this fear of the unknown to entertain and to explore the human mind 2009

Bad Trips: The Art of Travel Writing John Edwards The only good trips are bad trips, especially when even our guidebooks are “survival kits.” Welcome to the world of disaster and distress! My First Kiss Katie Tatela Curiosity. Why are boys so drooly? I never wanted a boy to kiss me my entire life. Castleton: A Brush with local history P Farrell-Vinay "You like painting don’t you? Come and look at this." The Death Road Biking the World’s Most Dangerous Route - J. Malcolm Garcia "It’s not compulsory that you die today, okay?" Career Choices in '09 Sam North A student asked me what jobs will go in this recession. It's not just the recession is it. This is all about the digital revolution. Big changes coming Glancing Back from Guayaquil Tyrel Nelson I vividly remembered walking to the baggage claim in Quito a year earlier, scared to death and wondering how I was ever going to get my feet under me, let alone teach English.

FICTION plus

FICTION Original Shorts

REVIEWS Film & Books

The Literal Day G David Schwartz September 7th, 1948 began typically and promised to be non-eventful. The fact that I was an eyewitness to the startling events I am about to relate is one of those accidents of history Uncle Pringle and the Bookmaker  Martin Green Bob’s story was familiar but had a singular twist.   He’d become a gambler In The Dark Piotr Wesolowski Groping and dragging his feet past cracked, edgeless steps, he followed a dark narrow staircase that led to the exit downstairs A Sensitive, Thin Man Lars Flatmo Reclining on my father's dirty living room couch made from raw white silk, I see through the drawn bamboo blinds my friend's short frame rapidly advancing across the front lawn towards the front door.

Loving Titi Fisayo Talabi With one last look in Sade's face, he shook his head and someway, somehow, the words came out loud and clear. "I'm sorry, but I can't do this anymore. I still love Titi." Barbarism Begins at Home William Better So there's this guy and he's walking to class. His walk to class from his apartment is typically a half-mile, maybe more but probably less Juan the Silent - Episode One Hannah C. Langley Tonight, he would make it home. She would be waiting for him in the safe little cabin of logs and bricks

Knife by R J Anderson Orchard Books; (Jan 2009); Sam North What an extraordinary tale ‘Knife’ is - this is a different take on Faeries at the bottom of the garden. Mean Tide by Sam North, Reviewed by Charlie Dickinson The hero of Mean Tide is Oliver, a survivor of much at his tender age of twelve years, and a likable lad coming to terms with a mysterious adult world about him.

Submit your original work for Borderlines 09 now We are looking for prose, travel and lifestyle stories for the 2009 edition. Ist Deadline Jan 29th 2009 Borderlines Vol 2 A Literary Spark Fiction, travel & poetry From the School of Creative Arts University of Portsmouth - available from Lulu Press & Blackwells, Amazon on-line

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em and little fleas have lesser fleas ...ad infinitum - Augustus de Morgan

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