Tag Archives: Captain Polly

No 43: MY FIRST THRILL OF THE WAGER

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (My great grandmother Shelva recounts her first taste of gambling as a girl in Moscow.) A long corridor stretches past my bedroom.  One night I awake to a series of ‘thumps’ there.  I get out of bed … Continue reading →

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No. 42: THE QUESTION TARNISHING MY GOLDEN MOSCOW SUMMER

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Raji Singh

Happy Mother’s Day,Shelva, and all mothers! by Raji Singh (In slices of life Great grandmother Shelva serves vignettes about her building friendship with her future father-in-law ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, when she was a pre-teen.)                       “Are you planning to kill the … Continue reading →

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No. 41: CONCERTO PETITE FOR MISS SHELVA

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh     Horrified by deathly choices she believes Blackjack Fiction is making, Shelva writes of her pre-teen epiphany that gives her courage to confront him. *     *     *      It is only an impromptu three-minute piece that Pyotr … Continue reading →

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No. 35: MEMORIES MIDST BOMBARDMENT

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  (My great grandmother Shelva’s accounts of strange happenings – triggered by her hired hand’s building of his ‘Man Cave’ circa 1890’s)     Ever since I leave Moscow, I dream of this Eden land now I live.  Mine … Continue reading →

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No. 34: EFRAIM BUILDS HIS MAN CAVE, PART 2

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (Witnessed and written by my great grandmother in the 1890’s)      I look out the window of the Fiction House.  I cannot believe what mine eyes beholt.  Never, ever in Moscow could I have imagined I’d be … 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. 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. 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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