Tag Archives: Abolitionists

No. 77: NORTH TO CINCINNATI AND FREEDOM

By Raji Singh Last week: The realistic ante-bellum Underground Railroad journey of Kunta Kinder to free slaves. This week:  His surrealistic river rafting to freedom. *** One may wonder: When Turt’s not rollin’ down a Kentucky hill, strollin’ a parade, … Continue reading

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No. 76: BEST ACTOR AWARD

by Raji Singh     Esteemed resident of the historic Fiction House, Kunta Kinder, is world renowned for his artwork – painting, carving, sculpture.  His dangerous pre-Civil War work as an African-American Abolitionist ‘Conductor’ in the slave states demonstrates his acting … Continue reading

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No. 68: BOOKS

By Raji Singh Last week: It’s 1826, Cincinatti.  4-year-old orphaned foundling Carper is taken in by a sea-crusted ancient mariner. In only a few minutes Mariner and Carper are at Mariner’s isolated ‘STATEROOM.’ A barnacle on the backside of an … Continue reading

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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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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 – ‘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. 59: THE ARCHEO-APOLOGIST AT WORK

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

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. 55: THE TWISTING TALE OF THE ROPE-HAIRED MAN

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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