fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
[This post contains spoilers for Ender's Game.] Technically, the climax of Ender's Game takes place when Ender uses the Little Doctor on the bugger home world, destroying it and, in the process, ending the Third Invasion. The story's stakes are highest here---worn past the limits of his endurance, Ender makes a final push of what [...]
"As long ago as forever, as far away as Selidor..." It's fitting that Ursula K. Le Guin's The Farthest Shore has its own vernacular for "once upon a time" because, of all of Le Guin's heroic tales, The Farthest Shore is perhaps the most archetypal. The story traces the arc of young Arren, a rural [...]
Ursula K. Le Guin, my hero, died on a Monday. On the Wednesday that preceded her passing, only five days before her death, I sent her the only piece of fan mail I've ever written. In it, I struggled to contain and express the boundless praise and thanks due to a woman who, despite our [...]
Songs & Stories 