Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and Zundelstate: Two Tales

Jamali Kamali is the story of two men who lived in 16th century India. Little about them is known but they are buried together in a small tomb in Delhi. For hundreds of years, the story that these men were lovers has been passed down through the generations. Jamali Kamali is a fictional account of their love, longing, separation, and death. ZundelState takes place a thousand years in the future. The main characters live in a world where history is banned, and dreaming has nearly vanished. But they each carry the recessive gene for dreaming. Joe, a lover of history, is rebellious and secretive. Marianna is a model worker for the State where she works in the HistoryShit Apparatchik Division. They fall in love and duo-dream with surprising, funny, and scary results

Karen Chase is the author of three volumes of poetry, and three books of non-fiction. Her book of essays, History Is Embarrassing, will come out in 2024. Chase and her husband, the painter Paul Graubard, live in the hills of Western Massachusetts.