Category Archives: Whimsey

No. 28: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE FIXER ELIXIR (continued from last week)

by Raji Singh      Will the unjustly incarcerated Doc and Shelva Fiction be saved from the noose?  Will the Sheriff’s wife Millie get the Doc’s potions to their accuser before vigilantes arrive?      From the jail cell, Doc Fiction instructs … Continue reading

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No. 27: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE FIXER ELIXIR

by Raji Singh      A noose awaits my jailed great grandparents Doc and Shelva Fiction if tall taler Efraim’s capricious kidney kills him – bad patent elixir they’ve been accused of pedaling, dontcha’ know.       But there are strange forces … Continue reading

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No. 26: THE MAGIC OF LUNY MUM: IT IS ALL AROUND US.

by Raji Singh   It’s the 1890’s.  ‘Ol Efraim, he’s a teller of tales and a crier of wolf from way back – a hypochondriac to boot.  He’s on his deathbed, so he claims.  My great grandparents Doc and Shelva … Continue reading

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No. 25: THE MAGIC OF LUNY MUM

by Raji Singh      (It’s the 1890’s.  My great grandparents Doc and Shelva Fiction find themselves far from home, wrongly jailed for selling an allegedly defective batch of patent medicine elixir.  Shelva’s pregnant and sick.)          Luny Mum beams … Continue reading

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No. 24: THE LIFE SAVING ELIXIR, So Near, Yet So Far Away

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist Fiction House Publishing) The content of this piece – from the writings of Shelva Fiction, my Russian immigrant great grandmother – exist only in fragmented segments.  I discovered them while archiving the Fiction House.  … Continue reading

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No. 23: SHELVA FICTION’S GRAND, BUT WHAT COULD BECOME, DEADLY, AMERICAN ADVENTURE

  by Raji Singh (Writings from the 1880’s of my Russian immigrant great grandmother, Shelva Fiction just a few years after, as she would say “I come Amerika”.) Mine husband, mine sweet druzhyna, Doc Fiction:  So successful is his spieling-on … Continue reading

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No. 22: MADAME RRROSE HEATHER’S WHURE’S DELIGHT AROUSES THE NATION.

by Raji Singh In the late 1800’s, my immigrant Russian great grandmother, Shelva Fiction was barely able to speak English.  She learned it by beginning a journal about her husband, ‘Doc’ Fiction.  His was a life dedicated to folk and … Continue reading

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No. 21: GREAT GRANDMOTHER FICTION WAS A WRITER? WHO KNEW?

by Raji Singh Tucked away in thimbles, squirreled into deep recesses of musty cubbies; used for padding in cracking old button-top shoes:  Buried and forgotten in all these places for over 100 years are bits and pieces of writing by … Continue reading

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No. 20: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

by Raji Singh    (continued from last week) Abracadabra, Magi!  Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere in the desolate desert-scape, three kingly wise men:  Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar.  They’ve a star to direct them as they goad their camels across … Continue reading

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No. 19: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART I.

by Raji Singh      Steven Spielberg’s excellent portraying of America’s 16th President omits – probably because of cinematic time constraints – dramatic events of Abraham Lincoln’s Kentucky log cabin birth.  Those events relate directly to Charles Darwin’s birth in England … Continue reading

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