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Christian Fennell

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Before the first light of each day wakes the possibility of everything.

Christian Fennell is the Editor-in-chief of The Nelligan Review. He is the author of four books: Torrents of Our Time, The Fiddler in the Night, LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America, and What I Know About the Human Race.

Christian developed early in life a love of reading, writing, and the outdoors. Today, he is pretty much nomadic, who just might do some more writing.

"One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion." ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Books:
Torrents of Our Time
"Whatever expectations one might have of a book of dark, realist short stories set in rural America, this collection defies them, and ins
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Cold Chaos: Stories From a North

COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North, is Nathalie Guilbeault’s first collection of short stories.

And I highly recommend it.

There's a reason The Seaboard Review named it the Best of 2025.

"What a powerful telling! A most necessary book." -The Seaboard Review

​Set in northern Quebec, where the author lived most of her adolescent years, the stories decompose the emotional and physical realities of living b Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.5 · 48 ratings · 36 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Fiddler in the Night

4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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Torrents of Our Time: Twent...

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What I Know About the Human...

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LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings6 editions
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"LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America is a fearless, unsettling, and deeply necessary novel one that confronts the fractures of modern America without flinching.

From the opening pages, the story grips with its raw emotional intensity. Following two children fl" Read more of this review »
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“For I am you, torn from our scars.”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“What I want, is contentment, without meaning, in honest work, and in life too.”
Christian Fennell

“It's always the miles, not time ...”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“I am a witness, and I am a participant, and yet, life suggests, there is more to it then just that. Find it.”
Christian Fennell, Torrents of Our Time: Twenty-Two Stories

“Great literature is written from the pulse of blood running through the veins of thought, and not by the meaning of it.”
Christian Fennell

“There is a danger in creating our pasts more than we lived them.”
Christian Fennell, In a Small Town

“In her future, will be these tears remembered.”
Christian Fennell, Tincture Journal, Issue Two, Winter 2013

“Read. Read a lot. Go home. Be quiet. Write. Write some more. It will soon be discovered if you are a writer.”
Tennessee Williams

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