Tag Archives: Shelva Fiction

No. 42: THE QUESTION TARNISHING MY GOLDEN MOSCOW SUMMER

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Raji Singh

Happy Mother’s Day,Shelva, and all mothers! by Raji Singh (In slices of life Great grandmother Shelva serves vignettes about her building friendship with her future father-in-law ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, when she was a pre-teen.)                       “Are you planning to kill the … Continue reading →

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No. 41: CONCERTO PETITE FOR MISS SHELVA

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh     Horrified by deathly choices she believes Blackjack Fiction is making, Shelva writes of her pre-teen epiphany that gives her courage to confront him. *     *     *      It is only an impromptu three-minute piece that Pyotr … Continue reading →

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No. 40: AN INVITATION FROM THE CZAR: ‘COME BOXING WITH ME’

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh After the brutal Crimean War, to assuage the sometimes bestial nature of humans, a war-like sport rises to prominence in Mother Russia:  Cat Boxing. From the back alleys of Moscow, to the Czar’s lavish Palace at St … Continue reading →

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No. 39: THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING CATS OF MOSCOW

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (excerpted from my great grandmother’s treasure trove of writings about her 1870’s girlhood) Part I:  PORTRAIT OF CECILY – a frequent and honored guest at our table one Moscow summer. We always dress for dinner:  Mama, I, … Continue reading →

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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. 36: BEWARE LADIES, THERE’S A SNAKE IN EVERY MAN-CAVE

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (my immigrant great grandmother, Shelva Fiction’s fear and musing on life in the 19th century Czarist Russia)     I am so afraid of snakes. As little girl, in Moscow, I greet kindly visitor friend of Papa.  He … Continue reading →

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No. 35: MEMORIES MIDST BOMBARDMENT

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  (My great grandmother Shelva’s accounts of strange happenings – triggered by her hired hand’s building of his ‘Man Cave’ circa 1890’s)     Ever since I leave Moscow, I dream of this Eden land now I live.  Mine … Continue reading →

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No. 34: EFRAIM BUILDS HIS MAN CAVE, PART 2

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (Witnessed and written by my great grandmother in the 1890’s)      I look out the window of the Fiction House.  I cannot believe what mine eyes beholt.  Never, ever in Moscow could I have imagined I’d be … Continue reading →

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POST No. 33 : EFRAIM BUILDS HIS MAN CAVE, PART I

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh These days, the man cave, is all the rave. Goliath screen tv’s to capture Gargantua footballers, and Pegasusical steeple chasing.  IRON BARS – on the windows and doors to keep out the misunderstanding spouse.  PLYWOOD BARS – … 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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