Tag Archives: new short stories

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 TALE OF AN EASTER LILY AND A DESERT RESURRECTION IN POETRY AND PROSE

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh April is National Poetry Month. For humans it is a time for Easter, Passover, and various human (‘two-leg’) celebrations. Plant, bird, butterfly, and creature (the ‘four-legs’) celebrate, too. They call it Transformation: The Time of the Great … Continue reading →

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CHARLES DARWIN MEETS TURT (‘naked and loving it’) Repost

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) The upcoming passage comes from the galley proofs of; THE BEAGLE HAS LANDED by Charles Darwin.  Fiction House Publishing, 1838.  Memos I am discovering in the Fiction House archives indicate the … Continue reading →

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY TALE– RRROSE HEATHER, A DAUGHTER OF OL’ IRE-LAND

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Just one of the 1,001 Tales residing for all eternity in the Fiction House. (James is a four-year-old foundling.  His ill fate causes him to loose his memory.  Turt is a long-lived sort of giant turtle, ferrying … Continue reading →

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THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh    (continued from last week) Abracadabra, Magi!  Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere in the desolate desert-scape, three kingly wise men:  Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar.  They’ve a star to direct them as they goad their camels across … Continue reading →

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THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809, PART I

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Steven Spielberg’s excellent portraying of America’s 16th President omits – probably because of cinematic time constraints – dramatic events of Abraham Lincoln’s Kentucky log cabin birth.  Those events relate directly to Charles Darwin’s birth in England … Continue reading →

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VALENTINE, COME WITH ME TO THE KISSING TREE

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Who would ever think? A broken furnace boiler leading to my first real kiss. Oh, there’d been plenty on the cheek – by mother, all the aunties, by my imaginary muses, Rrrose Heather, Mama Lucy, and yech … Continue reading →

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CHEF R.K.’S GOURMET SURPRISE

Posted on February 1, 2015 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 orphaned foundling, taken in by new loving parents, Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  Now, … Continue reading →

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