Inappropriate Punctuation

"And they sat down to eat a juicy, barbecue slathered, steak."

Some authors like to use the comma a little too much. In stories with many run-on sentences, they abuse the comma and make it beg for mercy. It's obvious they never tried reading their stories aloud to see how silly it sounds.

''Challenged, the brown-coated redhead put one hand just below hir ribs and opened hir mouth. Nothing came out. "Geez, where's my stomach?" Others snickered as shi moved hir hand about until shi found what shi was looking for. "Okay," shi said and gave out with a strong, but not overly loud, belch .'' -Taurger's Tale (www.furry.org.au/chakat/Stories/Taurger.htm)