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Dear Jaal,
I would like to submit my short story titled "Addiction" for your consideration. It reads 2 pages and 646 words. It is a somewhat silly look at a serious problem but with a twist to this tale. Also I have a poetry and chapbook site at the chuck e collection and my e-mail is chuckecollection@hotmail.com. If there's anything else you need please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your time and I'll be looking forward to your response.
Sincerely yours.
Chuck E (chuckecollection@hotmail.com)
Jaal: Dear Chuck E, our reply read three lines and 43 words. Basically, we don't carry fiction other than the sort we try and pass off as reportage. However, readers (all four of you), drop in on Chuck and read his stories; they're interesting.
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Dear Jaal,
Pak Poets on Pakistan:
Teen sadiyon ki saza Pakistan
Us pe turra ki allah se milee azadi
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
(Sometimes, in things supernatural , a bane looks like a boon)
Dekhta kya hai mere munh ki taraf
Qaide azam ka Pakistan dekh
Anon
(The small zigzags of an old face are nothing compared to a large and abiding aberration of geography)
Pakistan de do khuda
La Allah te martial law
Ustad Daman (Panjabi poet)
(Left out the third god, USA, for the sake of rhyme?)
Pakistan diyan maujan hi maujan
Charo pase faujan hi faujan
Ustad Daman
(Pakistan is great fun. All around is the military: To every nation its own entertainment.)
I K Shukla (ikshukla@hotmail.com)
Jaal: Verse and worse.
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Top 14 ways that the new James Bond movie will be more Politically Correct:
14. "Bond Girls" henceforth to be referred to as "Bond Womyn."
13. Evil mountain lair may not be destroyed without first conducting environmental impact study on implications to surrounding evil henchmen breeding grounds.
12. Jaws' mouth now made from 100% recycled aluminum!
11. Bond to have brief but meaningful tryst with male CIA operative, sensitively portrayed by Kevin Spacey.
10. Before: "License to Kill" After: "License to Cause Respiratory Distress"
9. Aston-Martin to be replaced by GM's all electric EV-2.
8. Opening credits now feature artistic nude silhouettes of John Goodman.
7. Some of the minority characters, though minor, are actually "sane".
6. "Octopussy" now referred to as "Woman With 8 Cats."
5. New nemesis: "Dr. No-Means-No!"
4 New theme song: "The Spy Who Had a Lot of Respect for Me"
3. Old Bond: Publicly humiliated arch-nemesis by out-drinking and out-gambling him in front of his girl. New, PC Bond: Publicly humiliates arch-nemesis by vomiting on his shoes.
2. Evil villains now referred to as "persons of alternative goodness."
I. Replacing Pierce Brosnan as the new Bond with --- Queen Latifah!
Sunit Katkar (sunitkatkar@yahoo.com)
Jaal: That leaves us shaken and stirred. And, whatever will happen to Pussy Galore??
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Dear Jaal,
How could you be callous? Have you forgotten the famous sanyasin in Uma Bharathi? Can't we spare her --Be considerate she can give "ek Dhakka" for whatever cause "They" would like to espouse.
V Krishnamurthy (krishnamurthyv@gmx.net)
Jaal: We haven't forgotten her, we're just trying to…
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Dear Jaal,
What do u think of us?
www.wahindia.com
Vikram Malhotra (vmalhotra@wahindia.com)
Jaal: Great Gnuman say - "Think not too much; gives headache."
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