Later-Comma

Later-CommaIn the course of my reading of contemporary fiction I have developed a wonderful little hobby: the collecting of later-commas. The later-comma, in case you don't know, is that ingenious literary device used by popular writers in place of the more descriptive passages that might get a novel banned in Boston. The character's (usually two: one male, one female) become involved in an extremely compromising situation and then, instead of the juicy paragraphs the reader is anticipating, the...