Category Archives: archeo-apologist

No. 55: THE TWISTING TALE OF THE ROPE-HAIRED MAN

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Shelva writes passionately about traumatic girlhood experience with a mysterious rope-haired man.  She is in a private compartment, aboard the Moscow train with her Papa.  St. Petersburg bound.  It is the 1870’s.                                 *            *             *      … Continue reading →

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No. 54: TALES OF THE LINDIAN WOODS – TRANSPLANTED ONTO THE MOSCOW, ST. PETERSBURG EXPRESS

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh My great grandmother Shelva wrote hundreds of fables.  They told of strange happenings among the beasts and creatures living in forests on the outskirts of Lindia City, Lindia, and Cincinnati, U.S.A.  Some were for adults, others for … Continue reading →

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No. 53: THE MAN VANISHES (on the way to the Czar’s Winter Palace)

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh     (These girlhood memories of Shelva Fiction’s 1870’s Mother Russia:  I do not know if she wrote them then, or maybe nearly 100 years later.  A lady recently told me she thought she once saw a movie … Continue reading →

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No. 52: SHELVA AT THE CZAR’S WINTER PALACE

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (As I do my archeo-apology work at the Fiction House, I continually unearth my great grandmother Shelva’s girlhood memories of her 1870’s Mother Russia.) PART I:  SWEET ANTICIPATION      My bedroom window is open.  Drifting in with … Continue reading →

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NO. 48: CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK – UNCLE VANYA MEETS THE GOWNED GUNSLINGER TURNED WORD FLINGER

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) Unearthing, almost daily, more stories and whimsical histories of Fiction House residents and writers.  Continuing here is my great grandmother Shelva.  She’s a little Moscow girl of the 1870’s, going on about Uncles … Continue reading →

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No. 47: UNCLE VANYA MEETS THE GOWNED GUNSLINGER TURNED WORD FLINGER – A SHORT TRILOGY

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) PART I.  LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY KOOKY UNCLE VANYA      Just unearthed; Shelva’s young girl writings as she anxiously waits, from her home in Moscow, the trip to the Czar’s Winter … Continue reading →

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No 46: CAPTAIN POLLY AND CECILY COBRA GO ‘AFLYIN

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      The founder of Fiction House Publishing, my great-great grandfa James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, visits Moscow in the 1870’s.  He meets my great grandmother, Shelva, a little girl.  So infatuated with tales he spins, variations on creature … Continue reading →

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No.45: HOW A TALE IS BORN (REPOST)

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh The telling of tales has been a grand part of human history.  We escape to other worlds with Carpier and Hans Christian Anderson.  We adventure ourselves away in 1,001 Arabian nights, and travel the Canterbury trails seeking … Continue reading →

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No 43: MY FIRST THRILL OF THE WAGER

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (My great grandmother Shelva recounts her first taste of gambling as a girl in Moscow.) A long corridor stretches past my bedroom.  One night I awake to a series of ‘thumps’ there.  I get out of bed … Continue reading →

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No. 42: THE QUESTION TARNISHING MY GOLDEN MOSCOW SUMMER

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Raji Singh

Happy Mother’s Day,Shelva, and all mothers! by Raji Singh (In slices of life Great grandmother Shelva serves vignettes about her building friendship with her future father-in-law ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, when she was a pre-teen.)                       “Are you planning to kill the … Continue reading →

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