Tag Archives: Shelva Fiction

No. 86: MOTHER’S DAY MAGIC

Posted on May 10, 2014 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. A thousand minus one perish. I alone survive. I … Continue reading →

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No. 73: OLYMPIC GLORY – GOING FOR THE PYRITE

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Raji Singh

  by Raji Singh A curious letter to the editor appeared in the Moscow Times-Oppressor on May 1, 1895 under this banner headline: ‘BRAMBLE SURFING FOR SUMMER AND FUTURE OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES?’      The query by my great grandmother, Shelva … Continue reading →

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NO. 64: TCHAIKOVSKY SAVES MY LIFE AT THE CZAR’S PALACE – PART 2

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Shelva’s girlhood memories of her first, most unusual, ball.  It’s St. Petersberg, Russia.  The 1870’s. OPUS 3:  BLINK, AND THE WHOLE WORLD BLINKS WITH YOU      Maestro Pyotr Illych escorts me down the winding marble staircase of … Continue reading →

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No 63: TCHAIKOVSKY SAVES MY LIFE AT THE CZAR’S WINTER PALACE

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (Shelva Fiction’s girlhood writings – the 1870’s.) OPUS 1:  THE APPROACH      “Ahh!  The Royal haven in St. Petersburg:  The grandness that is its Elizabethan Baroque style with stately ivory columns, glass smooth, far as the eye … Continue reading →

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No. 62: THE MAN RESIDING IN THE SECRET ROOM OF THE FICTION HOUSE – PART III

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Accidentally trapped in the secret room and awaiting Nanny to come unlock the door so she can nurse Jamoy, her infant son, Shelva recalls: *     *     *      Just when you are sure the Rope Haired Man … Continue reading →

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No. 61: THE MAN RESIDING IN THE SECRET ROOM OF THE FICTION HOUSE – PART II

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Shelva Reminisces:      The ‘slamming’ shut, the resonant ‘clicking’ lock of the upstairs door: TRAPPED !  ALONE!  In the secret basement room of the Fiction House. Despite your trembling, your fear, you try to stay calm by … Continue reading →

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No. 60: THE MAN RESIDING IN THE SECRET ROOM OF THE FICTION HOUSE – EXHIBIT ‘A’

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Per my archeo-apology endeavors: I am yet tying together archive data concerning the Rope Haired Man stalking my great grandmother, Shelva.  The incident occurs at the First International Cat Boxing Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia.  It is … Continue reading →

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No. 58: THE CZAREVICH’S TALE OF THE TRAVELLING FICTION HOUSE

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh 1870’s St. Petersburg, Russia.  My great grandmother Shelva tells of her frightful girlhood experience, stalked by a mysterious Rope Haired Man.  From fear, she faints, awakening to… *     *     *      Peter the Great in fresco reaches … Continue reading →

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No. 57: THE CZAR’S PUSSYCAT PARADE

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      When Czar Alexander II puts on a Pussycat Parade, he spares no expense.  It is the 1870’s. My great grandmother Shelva recounts joyful girlhood memories of the grand promenade, midst a sinister rope haired man stalking … Continue reading →

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No. 55: THE TWISTING TALE OF THE ROPE-HAIRED MAN

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Shelva writes passionately about traumatic girlhood experience with a mysterious rope-haired man.  She is in a private compartment, aboard the Moscow train with her Papa.  St. Petersburg bound.  It is the 1870’s.                                 *            *             *      … Continue reading →

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