Quinn, Author at Kittysneezes

How To Be Lost

On November 21, 2014 by Quinn

This is how it is going to happen. You will wander further and further off the path of what your life was supposed to be until you are in an entirely alien landscape. Old friends will form search parties, flashlights and bloodhounds…

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Drabbles: Sweets

On November 14, 2014 by Quinn

Ice Cream She stood beside the ice cream truck, studiously examining the various frozen confections that were displayed on its side. There were so many choices and picking the proper one felt terribly important. She finally settled on a popsicle which consisted…

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Drabbles: Music

On November 7, 2014 by Quinn

Tune It was only the last thirty-five seconds, but after four barren years that was enough. She sat there in her banged-up car, and as his familiar voice wrapped itself around her she felt like he was her Jimmy Stewart, wrapping her,…

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Review: The Point (Definitive Collector’s Edition DVD)

On April 15, 2013 by Quinn

The album version of The Point, Harry Nilsson‘s children’s fable, was an integral part of my childhood. I have many fond memories of listening to that record with my dad, thrilling to the story of Oblio, born pointless in a world where…

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Review: Nanobots

On March 25, 2013 by Quinn

I am willing to make this declaration about Nanobots, They Might Be Giants’ newly-released 16th album: It is the one of the absolute best things they have done in the last 18 years. As someone who builds my life around this band,…

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The Secret World

On June 5, 2012 by Quinn

Mallory Square (Photo credit: flowercat) Even for an eight-year-old girl, Mallory Luminosity had an oversized imagination. So, when she told her father that she had discovered a secret pathway to another world in the woods their neighborhood bled into, naturally he did…

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Review: Join Us Preview EP

On May 2, 2011 by Quinn

After four solid years of waiting since their last “adult” (or, as I like to say, “real”) album, the more hardcore among the (notoriously rabid) They Might Be Giants fan community were so eager for anything from the band that even something…

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