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CINCINNATI’S FIRST INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE – A WHIMSICAL TALE

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  Welcome to our annual 4th of July parade from  Tales of the Fiction House. Have a wonderful holiday! Cincinatti, July 4, 1826 The Cincinnati wharf-shack sways in a light breeze. Close your eyes, you’ll think you’re drifting … Continue reading →

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THE GLUMS

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Feeling blue? This will lift your spirits! Here’s an 1820’s tale about my great-great-grandfather, The Carper.  (An excerpt from Tales of the Fiction House) *   *   *   THE GLUMS – is what the Mariner sees in Carper … Continue reading →

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FATHER’S DAY SCENTS AND SENSIBILITIES

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (A Favorite from our family’s past.  Happy Father’s Day!)   *    *    * PART I – FATHERS’ SENSIBILITIES I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from my parents and my … Continue reading →

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CAPTAIN POLLY’S LORE OF THE LINDIAN WOODS

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Raji Singh

by Captain Polly (as overheard by Raji Singh) National Pet Week is here.  Join us as one of our favorite pets (though she would be greatly offended to be called that) shares an adventure. *     *     * You cannot stop … Continue reading →

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PET TO HUMAN DEDICATION: WHY WE HAVE NATIONAL PET MONTH

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In honor of National Pet Month, a Fiction House reminder of those furry, feathery, leathery, or fishy special residents in our hearts… I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from … Continue reading →

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MAY DAY ON THE BAYOU IN POEM AND STORY

Posted on May 1, 2016 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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EYES OF A LIFETIME: A BAYOU POEM

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Farewell to April and another National Poetry Month. And Farewell to Lucius Abel.  That last day with him, his Mama relives every day. *     *      * All is dark. Just one thing she sees – her son’s … Continue reading →

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A-TAX ON SYNTAX: HAPPY TAX WEEKEND

Posted on April 17, 2016 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 Ephraim, lounges alone … Continue reading →

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A BAYOU GATOR’S REMINISCE – A LIMERICK

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh   April is National Poetry Month.  We at The Fiction House celebrate with a poem from Tales of the Fiction House.      *     *     * I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon … Continue reading →

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BEST ACTOR AWARD

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh     Esteemed resident of the historic Fiction House, Kunta Kinder, is world renowned for his artwork – painting, carving, sculpture.  His dangerous pre-Civil War work as an African-American Abolitionist ‘Conductor’ in the slave states demonstrates his acting … Continue reading →

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