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Just in time for Valentine's Day,
the Guardian in London has
reviewed and raved about
The Secret Language of Sleep.
And, for the rest of the week,
you can buy it for $5!

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Pieces by
Teddy Wayne.

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My Pitches for Political-Satire Skits Playing on President Obama's Foibles Keep Getting Shot Down
(5/6/09)

Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years
(3/23/09)

From The Clog: Manchester, Vermont's Insider Gossip Blog for Plumbers
(1/13/09)

Your Best Friend in a Romantic Comedy Is Always There for You
(12/4/08)

The Audacity of Despair
(10/28/08)

Your Candidate for Class Treasurer Has Something to Disclose
By Teddy Wayne and Greg Wayne (10/8/08)

Soberly Written Documents Rendered as Comic-Book Dialogue!
(8/7/08)

Short Imagined Monologues: A Former WWF Wrestler, Now a Suburban Realtor and Parent of Three, Campaigns for PTA Chair and Battles His Instincts
(6/10/08)

The Catcher in the Retirement Home
(4/17/08)

"Page Six" Gets Extremely Personal
(3/11/08)

Ashton Kutcher Fan Fiction: "The Middle School Dance" by Melissa Bell, Age 13
(2/7/08)

Ishmael the Comedian
(1/9/08)

Short Imagined Monologues: An Inarticulate, Self-Consciously Ironic Voice of His Twentysomething Generation Makes an Opening Statement for His Client in a Corporate-Fraud Case
(11/13/07)

We're Huge in Europe
(10/2/07)

Debate for Emperor of the Upsilon Sigma Star System
(8/27/07)

Why There Will Never Be a Lactose-Intolerant President
(8/6/07)

Ivan Lendl, Former Tennis Champion and Current Landscape-Painting Teacher in the Goshen, Connecticut, Community Center
(6/1/07)

Planned Parenthood's Plans C, D, E, F, and G for Iraqi Insurgent Control
(4/13/07)

My Interactive Call Center
(3/23/07)

I'm Starting to Suspect That a Dungeons and Dragons Player Named "Elgdorf the Mage" Is Abusing His Wikipedia Editorial Privileges
(10/26/06)

Perhaps I Should Stop Naming the Protagonists in My Semi-Autobiographical Fiction After Myself
(9/18/06)

Why There Aren't Many Right-Wing Observational Comedians
(5/22/06)

Feedback From James Joyce's Submission of Ulysses to His Creative-Writing Workshop
(5/9/06)

Parallels Between My Living Through Two Years of Middle School and the Two Terms of the Bush Presidency
(3/21/06)

Listmania!: Other Books Useful (or Not) for Americans to Read, Beyond William Blum's Rogue State, by Osama B-L
(1/23/06)

History's Most Lopsided Trades, as Renegotiated by Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane
(1/16/06)

Ten Reasons Why You, Audrey Tautou, Gamine French Star of Amélie, Should Date Me, Teddy Wayne
(10/24/05)

Urgent Proposal
(8/30/05)

Where Are They Now?
(8/9/05)

Bawdy Best-Man Speeches, Given by the Actual Best Man on Earth at the Time
(6/9/05)

Awkward Interloper of the Realm: Christmas Day With My New Girlfriend's Family As a Circa-1982 Text-Based Computer Adventure Game
(5/23/05)

Yahoo's MAILER-DAEMON Automated Reply for Failed E-mail Delivery Is Getting a Little Too Intimate
(4/12/05)

Short Imagined Monologues: 2008 Presidential Stump Speech of Billy Bush, Cousin of George W. Bush and Access Hollywood Entertainment Reporter
(3/16/05)

The Fabulous Friends: Conservative Christian Groups' Least-Favorite All-Star Cartoon
(1/27/05)

Welcome to Cancún!
(1/24/05)

Johnson's Life of Boswell
(12/15/04)

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