Deborah Prum

Writer-Developmental Editor-Painter

DISPLACED

DISPLACED Photo Courtesy of Farid Ershad 0:00 / 0:00 Displaced Mid-August last year, when Fatema* answered her cell phone, she heard her sister Shaima’s frantic voice, “I’m at the airport. Can you bring me my passport right now?” Not a simple request. On a normal day, it would have been dangerous for Fatema, who was […]

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JACK\’S GRANNY AUDIO FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES

JACK’S GRANNYA STORY FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES 0:00 / 0:00 Jack's Granny  Some grannies knit and some grannies bake bread. But Jack’s granny plays the banjo.             Jack’s Granny settled into her rickety rocking chair and began to fiddle with the tuning pegs on her banjo.  Both Jack and his granny could hear excited

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BOOK REVIEW: MY MONTICELLO BY JOCELYN NICOLE JOHNSON

MY MONTICELLOBOOK REVIEW Jocelyn Johnson’s novella, My Monticello, is a soul-nourishing story that begins on a spring night in the near-future after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in 2017. White nationalists have returned to town. They are burning down houses and brutally attacking people of color. Da’ Naisha  Love, a descendant of Thomas

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