Colm Prunty

Recent Posts

  • May 01, 2026

    Hokum

    I was hyped for this, after Oddity legitimately scared the hell out of me in a way that few movies have for a long time. But first: I missed the first ten minutes, give or take. This is because I strolled confidently into the cinema foyer two minutes after the advertised start time, hopefully missing a few ads, only for the ticket scanning guy to say “this ticket isn’t for here”. Not only was it not for here, I had somehow bought a ticket to see it in a cinema that was neither the one I was in, nor the one I had intended it to be in. I had gone to the wrong one twice removed and had to burn it to the subway to try figure out where this mysterious third cinema indeed was. The show was underway when I arrived, so I don’t really know how much I missed, but for the first time in my life I was thankful for the relentless onslaught of ads that we all have to put up with.

  • April 06, 2026

    The Week In

    It’s Monday, but it was a four day Easter weekend. On Friday it went above 20 degrees, and the entire cohort of neighbourhood children (give or take) emerged as if from hibernation to ride bikes around the school running track. It was nice. Then today it snowed a little.

  • March 29, 2026

    The Week In

    Yeah I skipped this last week, and didn’t write anything. My actual goal of getting into the habit of writing, working more on the longer form work, failed completely. I looked at my current project and I entirely dropped it on January 2, despite it being in pretty good shape. So that’s probably it for the shorts, unless I get inspired and smash something out. It’s also the time of year where all the fresh resolution energy has thoroughly washed away, all the loose ends and stray tasks are piling up, the clean lines are being rubbed away. It is, if I’m to go full Business Dickhead, the end of Q1.

  • March 16, 2026

    Short Writing Week 11

    “I’m afraid your brother is dead”

  • March 15, 2026

    The Week In

    Consumption