fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
After some failed errand-running that involved a hockey girdle, the state of California, and a monkey company (don't ask), I ended up at a Mexican place for lunch. More specifically, a Qdoba. And I think they tried to kill me. Now, let me get a couple things out in the open here. First: Obviously, whatever homicide [...]
I'm a fan of long-form reviews. I think it's kind of crazy that we ask reviewers of books and albums and games to render a verdict in only few days on art that may have taken its creators months or, more likely, years to create. How could you process all of that information, how could you [...]
It's been eight and a half months since Caitlin and I bought our house and, admittedly, we've been very busy in that span: we adopted Jersey, we got married, we painted, and then the basement flooded. The confluence of all those events meant that we haven't had a whole lot of time (or, perhaps more importantly, [...]
How do I know I'm old? Not because another birthday has come and gone and not because I'm married or own a house. Certainly not because I put on a tie every morning (you need not be old for that). No. I know I'm old because I get upset when I'm not allowed to be [...]
While we're on the subject of my sister's bizarro gifts, and since I've only recently recovered from a bit of a cold, I think it's time that I tell the tale of the Curse of Pocahonto. Like many of my strange childhood stories, this one begins on a No Moms Allowed camping trip. In this particular instance we were [...]
For reasons that are not entirely clear to even me, I spent a small chunk of last night playing Red Faction. To those of you unfamiliar with that title, suffice to say that it's a video game from 2001 and, perhaps unsurprisingly given all the technological advancements in that medium in the past 13 years, [...]
It's been seven years since I last got ready for a new school year. Well, as a student, at least. After college I spent my first two years as a "professional" - yes, with quotes - working in a university environment with my schedule still dictated by academia. So I'm five years removed, if you're [...]
I've read The Lord of the Rings a number of times. As a result of all that repetition, I've internalized most of the story's primary aspects and plot points. And though I've not read it with the same frequency, I've also read The Hobbit a not-insignificant number of times. So I was surprised to find, [...]
A disclaimer: there is an old axiom about stones and glass houses that certainly applies here. I have achieved much less as a writer than, of all people, tennis legend Moncia Seles who - and pardon my surprise at this - has published two young adult romance novels. (I should specify that Seles co-wrote the books with James [...]
Caitlin and I are far from the only people to have experienced the joys of water damage. Talking to a number of people who'd had similar experiences we learned a lot of things about how we might be able to prevent or react to similar problems in the future. And though we've known all along [...]
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