Tag Archives: James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction

No. 70: IMAGINE…DREAMING AS A KING, INSPIRING AS A GANDHI, UNITING AS A MANDELA (or simply – using laughter to lighten another’s load)

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      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 parents Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  … Continue reading →

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NO. 69 A FOUNDLING’S LIFE: FROM TRAGEDY TO LARK TO TRIUMPH

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh I am James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction – a true Fiction.  Typhoon  tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphaned foundling, taken in by new loving parents, Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  Now, I … Continue reading →

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No. 68: BOOKS

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Raji Singh

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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No. 67 Like the New Year, Life is Full of Beginnings

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh THE CARPER’S TALE   (From Tales of the Fiction House) 1826  Daylight for just 15 minutes and already summer’s heat has dried dew from the Cincinnati pier.  A stoop-shouldered ancient mariner in an age-cracked slicker gamily trudges the … 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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LEATHER, WHIPS, AND GUN-RUNNING ON THE RANGE – WHERE THE ARMS ARE BOUND

Posted on December 1, 2013 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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ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Posted on November 17, 2013 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 moon.  … Continue reading →

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SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Raji Singh

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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“SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature pine coffin, hardly bigger than a jewelry box.  It’s simple, the kind that entombed … Continue reading →

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Charles Darwin – ‘The Beagle Has Landed’, the Evolutionist Encounters the Editor

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Raji Singh

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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