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LEATHER, WHIPS, AND GUN-RUNNING ON THE RANGE – WHERE THE ARMS ARE BOUND

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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THANKSGIVING AT THE HOME OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S NE’ER-DO-WELL BROTHER

By Raji Singh (This is a popular repeat from last year) 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! *     *     * … Continue reading

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ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

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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SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

By Raji Singh  (Archiving the Fiction House…) “Messages, Sheralee and the other heroic carrier pigeons delivered in their Abolitionist flights, led to a victory in our Abolitionist fight.”  James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction Blackjack reaches across the shadows of time and … Continue reading

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CHARLES DARWIN’S VICTORIAN ROMANCE

By Raji Singh RESURRECTING THE FICTION HOUSE My hired ‘experts’ jokingly, good-naturedly call me an archeo-apologist.  It is because of my zeal for my reclamation project – that of unearthing and archiving files, notes, books – over a century’s worth … Continue reading

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

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. 57: THE CZAR’S PUSSYCAT PARADE

by Raji Singh      When Czar Alexander II puts on a Pussycat Parade, he spares no expense.  It is the 1870’s. My great grandmother Shelva recounts joyful girlhood memories of the grand promenade, midst a sinister rope haired man stalking … Continue reading

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

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. 36: BEWARE LADIES, THERE’S A SNAKE IN EVERY MAN-CAVE

by Raji Singh (my immigrant great grandmother, Shelva Fiction’s fear and musing on life in the 19th century Czarist Russia)     I am so afraid of snakes. As little girl, in Moscow, I greet kindly visitor friend of Papa.  He … Continue reading

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POST No. 33 : EFRAIM BUILDS HIS MAN CAVE, PART I

By Raji Singh These days, the man cave, is all the rave. Goliath screen tv’s to capture Gargantua footballers, and Pegasusical steeple chasing.  IRON BARS – on the windows and doors to keep out the misunderstanding spouse.  PLYWOOD BARS – … Continue reading

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