From the category archives:

Fiction

Saying Goodbye to Doctor Toboggans

by Brent on June 19, 2008

in Fiction

After a long time of holding out faith, hope, and various restraining orders, it appears that Doctor Harold Toboggans is finally and truly gone.

Even the renowned Memphis Psychiatric Recovery Team has called off their search and concentrated their efforts instead on comforting his former clients during their time of grief and newly reclaimed cash flow…

Doctor Harold Toboggans-dry humor and funny psychology

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Nightlife

by Brent on May 20, 2008

in Commentary, Fiction

I entered the establishment off a crowded thoroughfare. The place was dark, only the occasional splash of illumination painting the stark white walls. The scent of teenage aftershave mingled freely through the sparse crowd.

Music, blunt and pulsating, saturated the air like a rhythmic fog, filling every breath, every pore, with barometric waves of insistence…

Humor Noir - a first at the Comma

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The Prodigal Author Returns

by Brent on April 10, 2008

in Fiction

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome myself back to my own blog after my cruel and all too usual sentence of domestic servitude.

Having paid several installments upon my debt to society, Camille the Hot Comma Momma has seen fit to parole me, not so much out of any sense of clemency I suspect, but rather to meet with certain humor-thirsty Comma-addicts, address their needs, and with any luck inspire them to recovery, wholeness, and life outside our front yard…

Riot of needy readers demanding the return of Brent to The Comma

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Brent Replacement Therapy – A Guest Post

by Guest on March 24, 2008

in Fiction

By Don Lewis

My apologies for this interruption. I realize that you have arrived here at the.um…(flip, flip) Ominous Comma website feverishly hoping that your visit would bring a little desperately needed levity to your otherwise odious and ultimately inconsequential lives. Naturally, we at DONCO care about you, the Jocularity End-User. That is why I have taken the time out of my inordinately busy and extremely important schedule to inform you of the exciting changes that are coming soon to the Opulent Comma…

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Taking Economic Responsibility For A Spin

by Brent on February 25, 2008

in Fiction

Buck-O-Quest: Part 1

Approximately one year ago I informed you that I had discovered the secret of the U.S. economy…

I want to apologize to all of my readers. To those currently engrossed in this article, to those yet to discover this blog, and even to those whose best attempts at reading so far have been limited to glassy stares in the direction of diaper packaging.

I have let you all down…

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Holiday Recovery

by Brent on December 31, 2007

in Fiction

For many, the holiday season is a time of pain and emotional suffering. Broken hearts, ruptured spleens, and damaged livers litter the roadsides of this nominally festive season, leaving untold numbers collecting the discarded refuse like convicts under a particularly cruel sentence of community service.

And always, since the advent of human society, the only cure for such torment has been time. Or occasionally death.

Until now…

Organ Needles

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