Tag Archives: Abolitionists

No. 51: UNCLE VANYA DISCOVERS THE FALLACY IN FALLING FOR A FEMME FATALE TOO QUICKLY

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      …when last we see Uncle Vanya’s ‘Sweet Willamina’:  It’s 1850’s, America. Instantly Willamina transforms into dastardly ‘Dollar Bill’, thief extraordinaire, scourge of the west.  The quick change artist is William/Willamina AKA ‘Golden Boy’ Golden, adventurer, best … Continue reading →

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No. 49: PART III – UNCLE VANYA MEETS THE GOWNED GUNSLINGER TURNED WORD FLINGER: An Ill-Fated Romance Midst a Just Cause

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (Publisher, Fiction House Publishing)  My great grandmother Shelva’s girlhood writings.  The 1870’s. I wonder.  Do schoolchildren in America learn about their Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as we in Moscow?  They should.  It was something evil as … Continue reading →

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NO. 48: CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK – UNCLE VANYA MEETS THE GOWNED GUNSLINGER TURNED WORD FLINGER

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) Unearthing, almost daily, more stories and whimsical histories of Fiction House residents and writers.  Continuing here is my great grandmother Shelva.  She’s a little Moscow girl of the 1870’s, going on about Uncles … 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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No. 5: SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh “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 puts his hand on … Continue reading →

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