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No. 74: VALENTINE, COME WITH ME TO THE KISSING TREE

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Who would ever think? A broken furnace boiler leading to my first real kiss. Oh, there’d been plenty on the cheek – by mother, all the aunties, by my imaginary muses, Rrrose Heather, Mama Lucy, and yech … 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. 72: CHEF R.K.’S GOURMET SURPRISE

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphaned foundling, taken in by new loving parents, Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  Now, … Continue reading →

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No. 71: USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO FIND YOUR PASSION

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphaned foundling, taken in by new loving parents, Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  Now, … Continue reading →

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No. 70: IMAGINE…DREAMING AS A KING, INSPIRING AS A GANDHI, UNITING AS A MANDELA (or simply – using laughter to lighten another’s load)

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphan foundling, taken in by new loving parents Dr. Ben and Indira Singh.  … Continue reading →

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No. 68: BOOKS

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Last week: It’s 1826, Cincinatti.  4-year-old orphaned foundling Carper is taken in by a sea-crusted ancient mariner. In only a few minutes Mariner and Carper are at Mariner’s isolated ‘STATEROOM.’ A barnacle on the backside of an … Continue reading →

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“SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature pine coffin, hardly bigger than a jewelry box.  It’s simple, the kind that entombed … Continue reading →

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THE DISPUTIN’ RASPUTINS OF THE HIGH SEAS (AND THEIR WALK-OFFS)) – A HALLOWEEN SPOOKER UNEARTHED FROM THE TALES OF THE FICTION HOUSE

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh The High Seas players: The Pirates- a scurvy lot Their Capt’n- a lice-ridden fiend Captain Polly – Capt’n’s enslaved parrot Turt- a good-natured land sea creature – almost a garnishment for the pirates’ meal The Captives:  Buzzard, … 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. 56: HERE COMES THE PUSSYCAT PARADE (And Other Matters) – PART 1.

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh  ON YOUR MARK…      Mel Blanc – the elastic voice of Bugs, Porky, and so numerous other cartoon characters:  His classic song, Here Comes…I’ll wager its inspiration came from the grand cat parades inaugurated, first in America … Continue reading →

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