Category Archives: humor

POST No. 17: (Holiday Edition) THANKSGIVING AT THE HOME OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S NE’ER-DO-WELL BROTHER

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh The Ancient Mariner, the scruffy sea salt who raised my great-great grandfather, told this curious holiday story.  It’s been handed down for almost 250 years.  Enjoy! *     *     * “To the GOOD life!”  Benjamin Franklin toasts.  A … Continue reading →

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No. 16: CHARLES DARWIN MEETS TURT (‘naked and loving it’)

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) The upcoming passage comes from the galley proofs of; THE BEAGLE HAS LANDED by Charles Darwin.  Fiction House Publishing, 1838.  Memos I am discovering in the Fiction House archives indicate the … Continue reading →

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No. 15: HOW I GOT MY NEXT THOUSAND OR SO TATTOOS – TURT’S STORY

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor-archivist, Fiction House Publishing) If my friend Turt could write, this tale he would scribe…    I experienced unparalleled bliss as the kind ‘two-leg’ gently carved the very first tattoo into my shell.  The “scritch, scritch” scratched incessant … Continue reading →

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No. 14: PET DATING SERVICE GOES VIRAL (a headline we’d like to see)

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Want to find the best mate for your Rex or Ol Tom?  Here at Fiction House Publishing we’re considering a new idea, online matching for critters. “Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.” “Trot … Continue reading →

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NO 11: SHOOTOUT AT PETTICOAT JUNCTION

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh “Craw!  Craw!” Everyone at the pro-slavers after Sunday-come-to-meeting picnic thinks the horrific sound is from a retching crow.  Abolitionist author William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden, posing as his Willamina undercover persona, knows it is his compatriot in abolition, … Continue reading →

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POST No. 10: ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE – WILLAMINA’S SHADY SUITORS

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Raji Singh

 by Raji Singh When last we saw the Fiction House Publishing chief writer, William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden, going undercover as his Willamina persona for the Abolitionist cause, we heard his TALE OF… …a pistol-whipping slave hunter who had the gun-butt … Continue reading →

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No. 9: A PARROT’S LIFE (A Tale of Two Birds – continued)

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh My wife Tenille asks quietly from the next room, “Has Captain Polly arrived?” “Yes.” I answer. “Good, the children will want to play with her after dinner.” I know Tenille’s smiling.  Captain Polly’s been close in her, … Continue reading →

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No 8: A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh ‘Tell our stories, Raji.  If you don’t, it will be as if we’ll never have lived.’      These whispering cries of joy and sorrow rise from the bookshelves and portraits in the Fiction House.      I cannot … Continue reading →

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No. 7: LEATHER, WHIPS, AND GUN-RUNNING ON THE RANGE – WHERE THE ARMS ARE BOUND

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh As I archive the mid 19th and early 20th century Fiction House Publishing, I am finding bits and pieces of rough drafts and published works.  Some of the roughs were gnarred-on by carrier pigeons that delivered them … Continue reading →

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No. 6: ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh      Technique and style observations about Fiction’s chief writer, William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden: Influenced by Sophocles and Shakespeare, Golden often anthropomorphized characters.  Two of his favorites were the sun, a distinctively British bloke, and his ‘lie-dy’, the … Continue reading →

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