Tag Archives: Raji Singh

No. 37: WE MEET AGAIN, MINE COSSACK ENEMY.

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  (My dear, sweet immigrant Great grandmother, Shelva; as a new bride in the 1890’s writes…) Greenhorn am I, to so many of the ways of mine wonderful new country, Amerika.  Even greener when it comes to knowing … Continue reading →

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No. 32: HOW EFRAIM EPHRAIM CAME TO RESIDE AT THE FICTION HOUSE

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Another story from my Russian immigrant great grandmother, Shelva Fiction.           We return home from our traveling sales.  The hooves of the horses pulling our patent medicine wagon, they rumble below us.  “Clip cloppity.”  Their gentle … Continue reading →

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No. 31: IT TAKES A NUCLEAR VILLAGE

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Enjoy an excerpt from the galleys for an upcoming book Fiction House is publishing in 2013.  This scene fits well with the whimsical nature of this site. The film studio announcer clears his throat, “hhrum, hhrum.”  … Continue reading →

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No. 28: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE FIXER ELIXIR (continued from last week)

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Will the unjustly incarcerated Doc and Shelva Fiction be saved from the noose?  Will the Sheriff’s wife Millie get the Doc’s potions to their accuser before vigilantes arrive?      From the jail cell, Doc Fiction instructs … Continue reading →

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No. 26: THE MAGIC OF LUNY MUM: IT IS ALL AROUND US.

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh   It’s the 1890’s.  ‘Ol Efraim, he’s a teller of tales and a crier of wolf from way back – a hypochondriac to boot.  He’s on his deathbed, so he claims.  My great grandparents Doc and Shelva … Continue reading →

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No. 25: THE MAGIC OF LUNY MUM

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      (It’s the 1890’s.  My great grandparents Doc and Shelva Fiction find themselves far from home, wrongly jailed for selling an allegedly defective batch of patent medicine elixir.  Shelva’s pregnant and sick.)          Luny Mum beams … Continue reading →

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No. 24: THE LIFE SAVING ELIXIR, So Near, Yet So Far Away

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist Fiction House Publishing) The content of this piece – from the writings of Shelva Fiction, my Russian immigrant great grandmother – exist only in fragmented segments.  I discovered them while archiving the Fiction House.  … Continue reading →

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No. 21: GREAT GRANDMOTHER FICTION WAS A WRITER? WHO KNEW?

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Tucked away in thimbles, squirreled into deep recesses of musty cubbies; used for padding in cracking old button-top shoes:  Buried and forgotten in all these places for over 100 years are bits and pieces of writing by … Continue reading →

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No. 20: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

Posted on December 9, 2012 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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No. 19: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART I.

Posted on December 2, 2012 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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