Tag Archives: humor

#163: CINCINNATI’S FIRST INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE – A WHIMSICAL TALE

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  Welcome to our annual 4th of July parade from  Tales of the Fiction House. Have a wonderful holiday! Cincinatti, July 4, 1826 The Cincinnati wharf-shack sways in a light breeze. Close your eyes, you’ll think you’re drifting … 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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CAPTAIN POLLY’S LORE OF THE LINDIAN WOODS

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Raji Singh

(as overheard by Raji Singh) You cannot stop Captain Polly’s storytelling chatter. We here at the Fiction House don’t mind. The children like her tales. So do us adults. Better than t.v. – cheaper than movies. Captain Polly’s the Mark … Continue reading →

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PET DATING SERVICE GOES VIRAL (A HEADLINE WE’D LIKE TO SEE)

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh In celebration of National Pet Month, we’d like to refer you to what your pet REALLY needs! (Repost) *     *     * Want to find the best mate for your Rex or Ol Tom?  Here at Fiction House … Continue reading →

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PET TO HUMAN DEDICATION – WHY WE HAVE NATIONAL PET MONTH

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from my mother and father on board a sinking ferry near the Lindian coast. I alone survive. I become an orphan foundling, taken … Continue reading →

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MAY DAY ON THE BAYOU IN POEM AND STORY

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh To acknowledge the end of National Poetry Month and welcome May Day and Mothers, here is a poignant story of a mother’s lament *     *     * “Tis 1800, there ‘bouts, early morn. Today Thibidioux chil’ to be … Continue reading →

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A BAYOU GATOR’S REMINISCENCE – A LIMERICK

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In Honor of National Poetry Month Just one of the 1,001 Tales residing for all eternity in the Fiction House. The butterflies’ nemesis, the gators. *     *     * See purty buttahfly – see dem flits. Onst our … Continue reading →

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AN APRIL 15 A-TTAX ON SYNTAX

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      We’re in the Ides of April, National Poetry Month.      Here’s a little celebratory prose and verse,      To lighten the burden of the tax day curse.      It’s the 1890s. Fiction House’s hired hand, Efraim … Continue reading →

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THE BUTTERFLIES, A POEM

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh (In honor of National Poetry Month)   I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphan foundling, taken in by new loving … Continue reading →

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The Fiction House Presents Larkish verse for April, National Poetry Month

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Raji Singh

ANTIGONISH by Hughes Means, 1899   Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away…   When I came home last night at three, The man … Continue reading →

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