DEBORAH PRUM

PODCAST-MOVIE REVIEW-THE LAST REPAIR SHOP 0:00 / 0:00 Last Repair Shop                     The Last Repair Shop is an award-winning documentary. The film tells the story of four amazing individuals in the Los Angeles school district who repair musical instruments then put them into the hands of students who otherwise would not have the opportunity […]

PODCAST-MAISON MAGIQUE Photo Courtesy of  M.J. Tangonan 0:00 / 0:00 Maison Magique   MAISON MAGIQUE was published in Streetlight in April 2024.             I have a five-year-old grandchild who lives in Paris. Recently, she informed me that when she plays tag at her schoolyard, to avoid becoming “it,” all she must do is scurry to a […]

PODCAST-THE DAY THE VIRGIN MARY APPEARED ON MY CAFETERIA WALL Photo Courtesy of Gaetano Cessati 0:00 / 0:00 The Day the Virgin Mary Appeared on My Cafeteria Wall The Day the Virgin Mary Appeared on My Cafeteria Wall was first published in the Blue Ridge Anthology:  Poetry and Prose of Central Virginia Writers, 2010.   […]

DAMSEL-MOVIE REVIEW 0:00 / 0:00 Damsel Movie Review Damsel is a girl-power fairy tale that will make you think twice about ever entering into an arranged marriage. The movie opens as Elodie (played by Milly Bobby Brown from Stranger Things) is promised to Prince Henry by her father, Lord Bayford. The arrangement is purely financial. […]

PODCAST MY BRIEF LIFE OF CRIME Photo Courtesy of Drew Taylor 0:00 / 0:00 My Brief Life in Crime Jean De La Bruyere says, “If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.” This was true in my case. My first brush with crime happened when I was eight years […]

This essay won first prize in the Golden Nib for non-fiction and just appeared in the 2023 edition of The Golden Nib, an anthology of the work of Virginia writers. 0:00 / 0:00 Love Is Blind-ish             Last winter, we bought a car that came with many safety features, including a blind spot monitor. Unfortunately, […]

Our House in the Cornfield 0:00 / 0:00 Life on Aspinook (First published in The Blue Nib Journal.  Re-printed with permission.)             For four years, I lived in a little white Cape Cod perched atop a bluff above Johnson’s Cove on Aspinook Pond, a small body of water that spilled out of the Quinnebaug River.  […]

MOVIE REVIEW: BANK OF DAVE 0:00 / 0:00 Bank of Dave   Bank of Dave is a true-ish story about a successful van salesman named Dave Fishwick. He’s a native of Burnley, a former mill town north of London. During the global financial crisis, Dave gave low-interest loans to his fellow townspeople, all of whom […]