The International Writer's Magazine - May 2007- Welcome

Destinations: Travel stories & guides

Opinion: Politics & Issues

Lifestyles: Ways of living

Chile High and Dry Laguna Verde, El Norte Chico Roger Smith Here, at the top of the world, you cannot help gasping. There is the altitude, 4,328 meters, to be sure. The air is as thin, dry, and uninspiring as gallows humor. Chinchon Brent Robillard The moment I stepped off the bus in Chinchon, the rain stopped. An hour later the first rays of sunshine broke through the cloud cover. Beijing and My Pseudo Sign Language Skills Anna Loraine Balita Who says you can’t survive in a country where you don’t speak, read and understand the language? I did, for one whole week! Jordan’s Azraq Wetland: ecotourist haven Marwan Asmar It was 6:15 in the morning, there was a chill in the air but the dew and the mist were intertwining with the brilliant sunshine.

Frat House Fracas James Campion A Month Of Peeling Back White House Mayhem. This is truly a country run by lunatics. It is the only explanation. So you think the British Government will look after you James Skinner ‘I’ve finally decided to retire as Her Majesty’s governmental representative after nearly 5 years of rescuing Brits from the gallows... Exile On Main St I gave you diamonds, you give me disease. James Campion On May 12, 1972- the greatest rock and roll album hit the streets

Down south of the border… Ray Heap in Mexico For now I am quite at peace with myself, sitting in a bar at the Mexico city Airport I have a beer in front of me and their little Tequila try outs The Green Dog of Sosua Dominican Republic Dean Borok In a world of big ‘putas’ its impossible for a guy to have a little fun. The Other Adams Family Eric D. Lehman On a bright August morning, my girlfriend and I drove into downtown Quincy, Massachusetts, searching for the Adams National Historic Site. Where was this house? Kurt Vonnegut,Jr 1922-2007 James Campion 'All this happened, more or less' Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Clever versus Wisdom Michael Levy Science has yet to define the meaning of wisdom in scientific terminology. I guess they require some type of theoretical proof that wisdom exists?

Beijing Bus Paul Haire I check the word in my dictionary nervously one last time as I wait at the bus stop - a hundred Chinese bodies squashed together look down at me. A Concert Cures All Meghan Welteroth "Get out of the road!" I exclaimed for the millionth time to my 90 Villanova students blocking a side street.

Hassan Al Karmi, The intellectual I knew Marwan Asmar I first met Hassan Al Karmi when he was in his 90s. He was still as sharp as a tack. He was living another of his golden ages. He had already 14 Arabic-English, English-Arabic dictionaries under his belt and he was now writing treatises on Islam and the West.

Fail & Fail Again Colin Todhunter I used to feel really great. Then I started to watch TV on a regular basis. Is there a future for the car? Sam North 2007 update The key to public transport in cities is reliabity, price, accessibity and safety. A city that does not reinvest in a constant cycle in people-moving will die.

FICTION Original Shorts

REVIEWS Books & Film

Search this site or the web powered by FreeFind   Site search Web search Keukenhof Marianne de Nazareth Come the weekend and with spring out in all her glory, we the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism students decided to see Amsterdam’s famous spring garden- The Keukenhof Lisse A Day in Torremolinos Martin Green takes it easy Our tour, taken as a gesture of defiance in the face of all of the family and physical problems engulfing us during the past year, had started in Madrid then along Spain's southern coast... Tourismo El Salvador Nathan Richards If ever a nation had an undeserved reputation for danger and hostility it would, in my humble opinion, be El Salvador’s. Barbés sur Mer Dean Borok on Brighton beach Stepping out of the house, all set to go work out, in my sweat suit and carrying my boxing gloves, I felt the warm temperatures and saw the beautiful sunny day, and I knew I couldn’t go through with it. Aranjuez Brent Robillard Aranjuez shimmers like a desert oasis on the dusty Castillian plateau, and the river Tajo runs through it. Five years ago UNESCO awarded the city World Heritage status

BORDERLINES Creative Anthology by students at the University of Portsmouth - on sale now 'Lustful skeletons to Victorian Murders' Stumbling Block Mark Cunliffe Guy Block hated tutorials. A long spring afternoon was laid out in front of him with nothing but a depressing wave upon wave of snivelling students demanding his full and earnest attention. It wasn’t fair. Handis George Sparling The next day made a grand jump cut for Ralph and Kathy. We usually swallowed our medications at night, and then the sleep of the dead. The following day either faded in or made a transition to the next. But we never knew for certain. That was the tao of handis, a portmanteau word for craziness. Red Saturday Josh Bensen It’s one of those Saturday mornings where I am perfectly content on be woken up by the white hot light of the sun blasting through my cracked window shades. Sleep is great but I am roused by the sun itself. Wingmen John Whalen We were approaching the coast just below Vinh only twenty minutes after leaving the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) on duty in Yankee Station. For weeks we had been hitting the docks of Haiphong and the other ports of North Vietnam and there was scarcely a target left.

My Best Friend Directed by Patrice Leconte Starring Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon - Sam North review Contrivance: An artifice, the slightest, flimsiest idea to hang a movie on The Wild Bunch Dan Schneider Director Sam Peckinpah’s two hour and twenty-five minute long 1969 Western classic, The Wild Bunch, is an influential and important film Diamonds - The Rush of '72 A great summer read from the Western Frontier - order your copy now Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Nicole Foulger A gripping romantic vampire story with bite... More Dreamscapes Fiction Block-Age Mark Cunliffe Guy Block strode through the dull corrugated roofed, glass and brick walled tube that Hopemouth University entitled a corridor with a sense of purpose. Nothing would get him down today... The Vampire's Garden Natalie Tehrani The garden was silent and still. Moonlight seeped across the grass, a dark velvet sea, soft and seductive to my bare touch. Each blade of grass caressing my skin gently as I walked. Chinese Syndrome Joseph Guderian is drilling for oil Hank Croix walked out of the pharmacy mumbling to himself when he couldn’t get a refill on his prescription for sleeping pills. He was told he’d have to wait until the doctor returned to the drilling camp next week. Can't Wait Charles Mulberry One morning in mid-April when a heinous cold front from the northern United States finally finished a week long refrigeration campaign on the South, the sun shone brighter and hotter than anyone in Murfreesboro, Tn could have ever hoped.

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