Tag Archives: archeo-apologist

THE GLUMS, PART II

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Feeling blue, part 2? This will lift your spirits! Here’s an 1820’s tale about my great-great-grandfather, the Carper. (An excerpt from Tales of the Fiction House) *    *    * Mariner spins and spins for Carper. … Continue reading →

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FATHER’S DAY SCENTS AND SENSIBILITIES

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (A Favorite from our family’s past.  Happy Father’s Day!)   *    *    * PART I – FATHERS’ SENSIBILITIES I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from my parents and my … Continue reading →

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A HALLOWEEN SPOOKER: THE DISPUTIN’ RASPUTINS OF THE HIGH SEAS (AND THEIR WALK-OFFS))

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Unearthed from the tombs of the Fiction House, a Halloween re-treat. *     *     * The High Seas players: The Pirates- a scurvy lot Their Capt’n- a lice-ridden fiend Captain Polly – Capt’n’s enslaved parrot Turt- a good-natured … Continue reading →

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FATHER’S DAY SCENTS AND SENSIBILITIES

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh PART I – FATHERS’ SENSIBILITIES I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from my parents and my realities strip away. I enter another world, one of imagining, surviving. Eventually new, … Continue reading →

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APRIL FUELS POETRY

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh The gods of words have decreed it: April is National Poetry Month. Here at the Fiction House we enjoy telling tales. Some are poignant. Others are just plain tall. We like mixing in a little verse with … Continue reading →

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No. 111: WHY BUY THE COW, WHEN YOU CAN RENT IT FROM EFRAIM EPHRAIM?

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Fiction House’s internationally renowned and imitated business endeavor of the 1890’s, ‘Engage a Bovine’: It all started when my Russian immigrant Great Grandmother Shelva Fiction queried Captain Polly who was tightrope walking the clothesline as they … Continue reading →

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THE DISPUTIN’ RASPUTINS OF THE HIGH SEAS (AND THEIR WALK-OFFS)) – A HALLOWEEN SPOOKER

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Unearthed from the tombs of the Fiction House, a Halloween re-treat. *     *     * The High Seas players: The Pirates- a scurvy lot Their Capt’n- a lice-ridden fiend Captain Polly – Capt’n’s enslaved parrot Turt- a good-natured … Continue reading →

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No. 107: AN OCTOPUS GARDEN – PART III, FINALE

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Raji Singh

Raji Singh’s Lore of the Lindian Woods        Torn from her home by a tsunami, young Ollie Octopus comes to live in the Lindian Woods pond. She cannot leave it and return to the sea. She would be out of … Continue reading →

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A PARROT’S LIFE (A Tale of Two Birds – continued)

Posted on December 15, 2013 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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A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh LAST TIME – Golden Boy as Willamina, escorted by ardent admirer Jake, a beau in hoping and pro-slaver, infiltrates the pro-slavery picnic.  He is attempting to ascertain their plans to take over the government of ‘Bleeding Kansas’ … Continue reading →

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