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    Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century
    Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century
    Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century
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    Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century

    By Lenny Everson

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    This little guide tells you how colons and semicolons can be used and abused. It notes that "nobody’s going to hang you for a comma splice." But it does drift into the part where the rules wander into that dark borderland between logic and outright silliness. And it includes a picture from a plastic privy in Maine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLenny Everson
    Release dateAug 28, 2011
    ISBN9781465937292
    Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century
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    Lenny Everson

    List of Completed Works by Lenny Everson (As of November, 2014, over 36,000 copies of Lenny's works have been downloaded.) Novels • Death On a Small, Dark Lake. 67,700 words. Our hero snags a body in a remote lake. • Death on a Rocky Little Island 71,500 words. Our hero convinces a friend to take a canoeing trip to the 30,000 islands. • Mount Moriah 50,000 words. A strange sequence events involves a priest, a poet, a CSIS agent, a space alien, four horny teens, among others. My most fun fiction. • Last Exit to Pine Lake. 45,000 words. A dying writer goes back into the bush to off himself. Grimly literary. My best fiction. • Ally Oop Through the Ulysses Trees. As much fun as Mount Moriah! • Marley Was Dead: A Christmas Carol Mystery Novelettes • Granite and Dry Blood. 9,700 words. Our hero wants to write a book on Massassauga Park. Various people would prefer that he didn't. • Death on a Foggy Spring Portage. 11,800 words. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Screenplays • Murder on a Foggy Spring Portage. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Plays • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. A short (20-minute) play for two actors. Full-Length Poetry Books • The Minor Odyssey of Lollie Heronfeathers Singer. A middle-aged woman tries to connect with her aboriginal ancestry. • In The Tavern of Lost Souls. Four poets meet at a grungy bar once a month to give their poetic answers to random questions. • Love in a Canoe. A set of five chapbooks and a songbook about the love of canoeing. With illustrations. • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont are Dead. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. Includes the play. Poetry Chapbooks • Encounter in a Small, Old Cemetery. Autumn. Midnight. Poet visits a small, old private graveyard. Best poem I ever wrote. • Fire and Ashes. Poems about life's flames and regrets. • The Empty Tarmac of a Long-Abandoned Airport. Poems about having a midlife crisis. • Love Poems A compilation • Pray for Me: 22 Poems Probably Slandering God and Jesus • Ballads from an Unlucky Fisherman: Poems from a fisherman • Tweetable Limericks. 60 limericks small enough to be tweets • Hiking Poems. Co-Authored Poetry Chapbooks • Who Would Be a God? ...

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      Semicolons and Colons - Lenny Everson

      Semicolons and Colons: A Guide for the 21st Century

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      Copyright Lenny Everson 2011

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