Tag Archives: Turt

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. 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. 38: ‘sss- SO WE MEET AGAIN, SHELVA,’ SAYS CECILY THE SNAKE

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh (the further adventuring of my great grandmother, Shelva Fiction) Last Week:  Shelva enjoys a warm soak in a just discovered hot springs inside her hired hand’s, Efraim Ephraim’s, man-cave.  Efraim partakes.  Their mule, Sir Winston leaps in.  … 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. 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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No. 20: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART II: WHAT CHILDS ARE THESE?

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh    (continued from last week) Abracadabra, Magi!  Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere in the desolate desert-scape, three kingly wise men:  Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar.  They’ve a star to direct them as they goad their camels across … Continue reading →

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No. 19: THE LINCOLN-DARWIN STUMP DEBATE OF FEBRUARY 12, 1809. PART I.

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      Steven Spielberg’s excellent portraying of America’s 16th President omits – probably because of cinematic time constraints – dramatic events of Abraham Lincoln’s Kentucky log cabin birth.  Those events relate directly to Charles Darwin’s birth in England … Continue reading →

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No. 16: CHARLES DARWIN MEETS TURT (‘naked and loving it’)

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) The upcoming passage comes from the galley proofs of; THE BEAGLE HAS LANDED by Charles Darwin.  Fiction House Publishing, 1838.  Memos I am discovering in the Fiction House archives indicate the … Continue reading →

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No. 15: HOW I GOT MY NEXT THOUSAND OR SO TATTOOS – TURT’S STORY

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor-archivist, Fiction House Publishing) If my friend Turt could write, this tale he would scribe…    I experienced unparalleled bliss as the kind ‘two-leg’ gently carved the very first tattoo into my shell.  The “scritch, scritch” scratched incessant … Continue reading →

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No. 14: PET DATING SERVICE GOES VIRAL (a headline we’d like to see)

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh Want to find the best mate for your Rex or Ol Tom?  Here at Fiction House Publishing we’re considering a new idea, online matching for critters. “Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.” “Trot … Continue reading →

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