Gaming Pwns

The proceedings of the Ladies Club have come to a halt for a coffee break. The ladies are gathered in the hall, togged in their polysilk saris and tussar salwar kameezes, battling the slow whir of fans and the sluggish function of  the A/Cs, awaiting their speaker.
 
“Kaapi romba mosam, tch“, says Mrs. Kunchitapatham to Mrs.Swaminathan, both of whom, henceforth, [...]

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Petting and Smooching

Woof!
I yelped. Brat, my neighbour’s pug, was looking on whilst Mister and me were planning to rustle some heat between the sheets.
“Good doggie, little fella”, Mister said before turning back to me.
Eugh! Who wants to wag the dog now? Shoo!
But Brat howled the night down when I moved him out of the bedroom and shut the door on [...]

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The Virgin Widow and Poppadams

  

“It was my Yechumi Pati who invented the poppadam”, Amma pronounces, as she pops a perfect round wafer into a hot pan filled with oil. In a nanosecond the poppadam blooms, pimply and yellow.
Yechumi Pati’s name was Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of prosperity, though Pati’s life was one of deprivation and bereavement. Fondness makes Amma call her [...]

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