Category Archives: satire

ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Posted on November 17, 2013 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 moon.  … Continue reading →

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Charles Darwin – ‘The Beagle Has Landed’, the Evolutionist Encounters the Editor

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Raji Singh

UNEARTHING THE FICTION HOUSE by Raji Singh (Raji Singh is on promotion for his novel Tales of the Fiction House.  Enjoy this posting that inaugurated his whimsical short story blog site.  We will return soon to his recounting Shelva Fiction’s … Continue reading →

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NO. 64: TCHAIKOVSKY SAVES MY LIFE AT THE CZAR’S PALACE – PART 2

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Shelva’s girlhood memories of her first, most unusual, ball.  It’s St. Petersberg, Russia.  The 1870’s. OPUS 3:  BLINK, AND THE WHOLE WORLD BLINKS WITH YOU      Maestro Pyotr Illych escorts me down the winding marble staircase of … Continue reading →

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No. 61: THE MAN RESIDING IN THE SECRET ROOM OF THE FICTION HOUSE – PART II

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Shelva Reminisces:      The ‘slamming’ shut, the resonant ‘clicking’ lock of the upstairs door: TRAPPED !  ALONE!  In the secret basement room of the Fiction House. Despite your trembling, your fear, you try to stay calm by … Continue reading →

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No. 60: THE MAN RESIDING IN THE SECRET ROOM OF THE FICTION HOUSE – EXHIBIT ‘A’

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Per my archeo-apology endeavors: I am yet tying together archive data concerning the Rope Haired Man stalking my great grandmother, Shelva.  The incident occurs at the First International Cat Boxing Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia.  It is … Continue reading →

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No. 59: THE ARCHEO-APOLOGIST AT WORK

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      This week I take respite from Shelva in the 1870’s, from the Rope Haired Man stalking her at the International Cat Boxing Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, and from the handsome young Czarevich who comes to … Continue reading →

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No. 58: THE CZAREVICH’S TALE OF THE TRAVELLING FICTION HOUSE

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh 1870’s St. Petersburg, Russia.  My great grandmother Shelva tells of her frightful girlhood experience, stalked by a mysterious Rope Haired Man.  From fear, she faints, awakening to… *     *     *      Peter the Great in fresco reaches … Continue reading →

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No. 56: HERE COMES THE PUSSYCAT PARADE (And Other Matters) – PART 1.

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  ON YOUR MARK…      Mel Blanc – the elastic voice of Bugs, Porky, and so numerous other cartoon characters:  His classic song, Here Comes…I’ll wager its inspiration came from the grand cat parades inaugurated, first in America … Continue reading →

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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. 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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