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shirin,

was there any inspiration/incident behind my writing this? no. not conscious anyway.

thank you all for reading and replying,
shandana

sadna...this is just the scum of the top, wait till i write my horror story :)

Aspiring script writer for Hannibal Lector Part III or Bhoot Bangala Part II :)?

May i ask if there was any inspiration or incident

catalysing this thought process ? or just imagination at its best ?It is a strong article , and from an artists point of view well written with a lot of originality !

shirin

Shandana,

I am speechless, and well lost for words. (This does not happen very often, as many can testify here :))

Good observations and such exuberant descriptions. You have the eye for details, and the ability to make the reader see, feel and hear the scene. The less said about the subject matter at hand the better; but then you already knew that as you were composing this write-up. Macabre! Any relation to Valentine`s day.

Incidentally, I too am wondering like Ras, what the heck prompted you to write such a tragic, piece devoid of all hope, and dareisay rationality.

Sincerely,

Asim

Toba Toba #

Is there a censure here.

``Picking up the meat cleaver she started hacking off heads, working her way from the largest to the smallest. Conditioned to obey, her children offered no response and very soon her work was done.``

NAHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Were you inspired by the child sacrifice scenario from Toni Morrison`s ``Beloved?``

Or was it ``Silence of the Lambs?``

``He was looking into her eyes when he realized it was a jackhammer catslammer quite as hard as his own and read the smile in them as the handbag with the gun in it whacked him on the head (Bop! Goes the weasel) and he fell in a heap at her feet...``

Was Boy George singing in the background ``I know all there is to know about the Crying Game?``

;)

``She put everything in a neat pile on her desk and hung herself from the fan with a really nice Gucci belt she`d stolen from her sister years ago.``

NO NO NOOOOO, she should have beaten her Ex with that belt dammit.

Interesting read, ``heard that before`` themes cloaked in powerful, raw imagery...

can`t say anything more right now.

Excellent. Keep writing. Not that you need me to tell you that.

Aniruddha Karim Shankar

Bangalore

Weird! Strange! I love it.

dear ras and fairdinkum...LOL. i submitted this two years ago to chowk and it wasn`t printed. i sent if off again while cleaning out `my documents` recently. so please don`t take this as representative of my current affairs..i really dont have any :)

shandana

hmm, slink... why did you have to publish it at this time? You know, i am coming over to live in karachi... is that how the city feels? haven`t been to khi in 11 years... well, not for more than 3 weeks anyway...

not to worry... there is always hope!

When this writer has a bad day she really has a
BAD DAY!
Good, solid writing but for the darkness of the
TOPICS.
I wonder what most young people in Karachi are
thinking these days? I hope not along these
lines.

Have a NICE DAY!

Ras