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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. 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. 69 A FOUNDLING’S LIFE: FROM TRAGEDY TO LARK TO TRIUMPH

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh I am James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction – 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, I … 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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No. 67 Like the New Year, Life is Full of Beginnings

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh THE CARPER’S TALE   (From Tales of the Fiction House) 1826  Daylight for just 15 minutes and already summer’s heat has dried dew from the Cincinnati pier.  A stoop-shouldered ancient mariner in an age-cracked slicker gamily trudges the … Continue reading →

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Charles Darwin – ‘The Beagle Has Landed’, the Evolutionist Encounters the Editor

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Raji Singh

UNEARTHING THE FICTION HOUSE by Raji Singh (Raji Singh is on promotion for his novel Tales of the Fiction House.  Enjoy this posting that inaugurated his whimsical short story blog site.  We will return soon to his recounting Shelva Fiction’s … 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. 50: CINCINNATI’S FIRST INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE– A Whimsical Tale.

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Taking a break from Shelva’s stories of old Russia. Here is a short holiday excerpt from my novel, Tales of the Fiction House, now in trade paperback. Cincinatti, July 4, 1826 The Cincinnati wharf-shack sways in … Continue reading →

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No 46: CAPTAIN POLLY AND CECILY COBRA GO ‘AFLYIN

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      The founder of Fiction House Publishing, my great-great grandfa James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, visits Moscow in the 1870’s.  He meets my great grandmother, Shelva, a little girl.  So infatuated with tales he spins, variations on creature … Continue reading →

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No. 44: TALES OF THE MOSCOW NIGHTS

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh (my great grandmother Shelva’s little girl wonderings and wanderings) Many are the nights in the 1870’s summer that mine brutter Ivan must be away – at the mandatory for boys Youth for Czar Conclaves.  He is such … Continue reading →

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