The Previous Comma

Do you know what I miss?
I miss not blogging.

What I mean by that is that I miss the sense of possibility and expectancy and wonder that I felt when I was first studying up on blogging, back before I launched the Ominous Comma.
In those days I was reading lots of books on writing, and lots […]

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TobboganSeach part 3
The story so far:
Led astray by the cute and convincing Comma Girl, I hauled my family cross country in a bold humanitarian effort to find Doctor Harold Toboggans.*

The Charming Culprit
After a long journey and a diligent search, I must have been ready to call off the whole thing off. To tell the truth […]

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TobogganSearch recounted - Part 2
Despite serious misgivings, I was persuaded by my youngest child to travel to Nevada in search of Doctor Harold Toboggans. It was a long and painful ordeal, far in excess of anything Dr. T could reasonably expect from anyone who had ever met him.
After an unpleasant beginning, delightfully documented in part […]

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In the face of suffering, hardships, and countless adversities the Comma clan and myself, its road-weary patriarch, have returned at last from the ill-fated TobogganSearch, to the malarial cheer of our Memphis headquarters.

The Ominous Comma’s Memphis Headquarters
The trauma of our ordeal has left me with large gaps in my memory, no doubt for my own […]

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The Quest for Toboggans has taken a slight, twenty-four hour and counting, hiatus as the intrepid Comma Clan find themselves indefinitely embedded within the Los Vegas Airport

Although the structure itself looks as if it escaped from a science fiction adventure, the experience so far seems to have been narrated by William Gibson rather than […]

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