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Issue 24, April 2024
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Raptorial Bites, April 2024
This month’s read is Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” from his first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). The poem is ava…
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Book review link
Oops! Here is the correct link to my review of Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, from Issue 706 of The Big Issue: Note, if viewing the web version…
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Silence and symbiosis
Issue 23, March 2024
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Raptorial Bites, March 2024
This month’s read is Nick Antosca’s The Quiet Boy, which was made into a supernatural horror film, Antlers (2021). The short story was published…
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Ambidextrous ambitions
Issue 22, February 2024
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Raptorial Bites, February 2024
This month’s read is Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Island of the Immortals, published in Lightspeed in September 2011. Once you’ve read The Island of …
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Leave of absence
Issue 21, January 2024
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The Raptorial
The Raptorial
A monthly newsletter on writing, reading and editing. Each issue includes a writing prompt and a curated short story or short story collection for discussion.
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