Eon P. M. Comma Makes His Way

Eon P. M. Comma Makes His Way

Eon P. M. Comma (super hero) immigrated to the United States when he was in his three hundredth and fifteenth year.  He’d left a well-informed agrarian society in Europe full of loved ones; a sufficient number had passed on to their reward.  The large farming community they’d settled in England is still known today as Little Echo.  The name etched its way across the area, from east to west, as far as the community spread.

Emmanuel and Rachelle Dots first introduced the Comma name when they found the need to acquire an altogether different one, one that was not familiar in the locale from which they fled in *1586.  They were by no means hardened criminals, but opportunists that found it to their advantage to participate in a circle of local mischief.  The fortitude of this action motivated the founding fathers to make a thorough study of the complete parish, going from house to house, searching for the ones implicated.  Eon’s ancestors were thus running for their lives, when they found what would become Little Echo.  Eon’s parents fled across two parishes before they found the rough barren countryside upon which they came to rest. 

Once settled in their new surroundings, the Dots took special care to guard their identity.  They took possession of a house that had belonged to a family named Homma; they’d traveled a great distance from Wales six years earlier.  Both husband and wife fell ill of a grave ailment earlier that month and died within yards of each other and minutes apart; their bodies hadn’t been discovered until the Dots came upon the house a couple days after they’d fallen into death’s hold.  They’d left no grieving relatives, being alone in this world.  They did however leave a house full of their possessions, which gave the Dots a great start in their new life as the Comma’s.

It was a unique spot to be in.  By taking advantage of the Sovereign’s good graces, the Dots were blessed and given a fresh start without a lot of hardship.  They were thankful for all the help that came their way.  One blessing especially sweetened the pot, and laid a final yes and amen to the Comma family’s advantages.  The nearest neighbor lived farther south, several miles across a raging river, which was swollen twice its normal size from the spring rains.  They remained shielded in their lonely surroundings; this, alone, was the greatest security of all.

Emmanuel found the remains of the two unfortunates outdoors.  Martha had collapsed by the well and Peter inside the barn.  His pitch fork was still in his grasp, as if he’d been wont to finish his chores before his calling home.  The corpses’ had not begun to stink, yet they were hard, unyielding and craving a decent burial.  Emmanuel complied, and buried the bodies beneath a grove of field maples.  The knowledge that the graves could easily be observed by anyone strolling behind the barn concerned Emmanuel; so he fashioned a haystack over the graves from the hay Mr. Homma had recently troubled himself over.

The Comma’s didn’t look all that different from the deceased couple.  Martha hair was blond and slightly bronze toned to Rachelle’s soft auburn tresses.  Their fair complexions and gently sloping noses matched perfectly.  They could have been mistaken for sisters.  The men resembled one other in build; both had strong muscular arms and shoulders, slim hips and long legs.  Peter’s hair was straight and thinning, his beard contained kinky waves; Emmanuel’s were both thick and curly, and remarkably similar in color to Peters.  The Dots were uncertain they could pass inspection if scrutinized; they worried about possible relatives of the deceased family visiting, not knowing their history.

The impostures took over the Homma homestead, and over the next one and a half decade’s, Rachelle bore thirteen children.  Eon, their last child and eleventh boy, was struck by lightning when he was sixteen; his whole molecular makeup altered, which left him with powers of a super nature.  The lightning strike left his body weak and wonting.  His powers manifest through his mind and he was found to be a tremendous influence in his community and surrounding areas.

Eon single-handedly pushed England up a dozen notches pertaining to education.  He wrote the entire formula concerning his family traditions, which were used to guide the citizens into compliance with his Comma placement proposals.  These rules were taught by the mind strengthen and conditioning techniques Eon developed through his super power capability.  Learning to apply Comma traditions correctly used special methods of influence Eon gathered by feeding information into his power electron utilization processors.  The resulting activity created brain waves which sparked interest in the minds of the people and gave them instant ability to make the right choices on demand.

Cleverness in helping the people make the right choices also effectively put his treble mind boggle tools into action.  These tools furthered the process in mind over matter, and metered out a mass production of waves measuring velocity at a rate of 60,000 cretins of rant per person, per second.  This type of tool superimposed awareness and flexibility over ignorance and stubbornness not only in the present generation but also gave the children of the next generation power to know Comma traditions and make placement instantaneously.  The people held him in high regard for his genius.  Eon influenced the province with his incredible powers of command, and the people changed through the Comma traditions.

Eon, by the end of the nineteenth century, felt he had taught his England all he could, so he moved on to another part of the world to experience new things.  He’d lived through a lot of sorrow as one family member after another, for ten generations, died, leaving the younger ones to take over their households; Eon looked forward to lessening the sorrows in his life.

As he went around the different states in America he’d run across bits and pieces of the traditions he’d created for his homeland.  He found traces of the family traditions in news papers, in book’s and in all written material.  The people everywhere needed proper training and influence.  He set out to teach students in universities every tradition he’d formulated; he found only a few of his family traditions in their textbooks.  So, his work began in America to help these like-tongued foreigners write and speak proper English through the use of the Comma family traditions.

His powers influenced the minds of the students in ways he’d never thought possible without the processors and tools he’d used on the people in England.  Since the students had already known some of his traditions they were more susceptible to his powers than he’d dared hope.  His powers were stronger here than in his own country.  He united his mind with their minds to create other traditions that helped complete the Comma family placement formula.  He planned and designed a tool he’d thought of one evening while trying to solve his need to communicate his ideas more efficiently.  This tool transformed brain waves into ultra receptors.  The students could translate ideas into simple frequencies which gave his traditions another dimension to work with.

His method to increase his power of influence worked; his students had found ways to use his traditions he’d never taught before.  The students wrote a new tradition on how to not use the tradition in the Comma placement proposal in certain works, and still confirm the traditions.  Now, he’d never thought about a lack of his traditions being a good thing, but mixing minds with these students taught him how to not use placement in short form, and still satisfy the tradition.  Eon found this to be powerful stuff.  They had a name for this method called “Doing Without”.

The years flew by and Eon wrote more traditions and discovered more powers in his already vast store.  The students, by discussing the traditions among themselves, brought influence and wonderful power into their lives, and they grew psychologically because of it.

Eon lives on and on, doing his important work to influence his traditions upon the people, generation after generation.  His super powers never weaken, and he always gives his best, which helps the whole world grasp the right usage of the Comma placement proposal by learning the family traditions.

Our super hero Eon Punctuation Mark Comma never gives up, and will never stop leaving his traditions where they can help others make the right choices when they are writing.

Eon will never die; he is like all Super Heroes.  He is here to help anyone in need.  We are fortunate to have been influenced by the Comma family traditions.  We can know better where to place a comma, and where not to place a comma, just by reading the rules, which are here to influence us and help us do our best work.


*Date "comma" was first used: 1586.


This is a short story for the second contest in comma class.
Prompt: A super hero with the word “comma” in his or her name.

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