Tag Archives: Satire

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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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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No. 111: WHY BUY THE COW, WHEN YOU CAN RENT IT FROM EFRAIM EPHRAIM?

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Fiction House’s internationally renowned and imitated business endeavor of the 1890’s, ‘Engage a Bovine’: It all started when my Russian immigrant Great Grandmother Shelva Fiction queried Captain Polly who was tightrope walking the clothesline as they … Continue reading →

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A PARROT’S LIFE (A Tale of Two Birds – continued)

Posted on December 15, 2013 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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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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No. 53: THE MAN VANISHES (on the way to the Czar’s Winter Palace)

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh     (These girlhood memories of Shelva Fiction’s 1870’s Mother Russia:  I do not know if she wrote them then, or maybe nearly 100 years later.  A lady recently told me she thought she once saw a movie … Continue reading →

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