Raiff Taranday
@raifftaranday.bsky.social
Writer, globetrotting elementary school teacher
https://escapepod.org/2024/02/08/escape-pod-927-how-to-pass-as-human/
https://escapepod.org/2024/02/08/escape-pod-927-how-to-pass-as-human/
My story is out now on Escape Pod. Check it out and maybe one day you’ll pass the Turing test!
Salutations, fellow sapients! Today for your most sapient of pleasures we bring you the Escape Pod original story "How to Pass as Human" by Raiff Taranday, which I'm certain will be of great value to all of you humans and cats out there in the audience.
Escape Pod 927: How to Pass as Human
QUERY: Locate file 8548.213 (“How to Pass as Human”) WARNING: File 8548.213 (“How to Pass as Human”) has been flagged by the Synthetic Regulatory Commission as Code 444 Forbidden Data.
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February 12, 2024 at 11:45 PM
My story is out now on Escape Pod. Check it out and maybe one day you’ll pass the Turing test!
My short story “Colony” is out in the January 2024 edition of Savage Planets.
They had me take out all the swears but at least I got to keep the violence!
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They had me take out all the swears but at least I got to keep the violence!
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January 2, 2024 at 2:49 AM
My short story “Colony” is out in the January 2024 edition of Savage Planets.
They had me take out all the swears but at least I got to keep the violence!
issuu.com/asgardianvan...
They had me take out all the swears but at least I got to keep the violence!
issuu.com/asgardianvan...
How getting published makes me feel
December 12, 2023 at 3:56 AM
How getting published makes me feel
Godzilla Minus One whipped ass. Very good film. Has a refreshingly poignant dudes rock message.
December 3, 2023 at 3:08 PM
Godzilla Minus One whipped ass. Very good film. Has a refreshingly poignant dudes rock message.
It’s a shame all the money & privilege in the world can’t buy an ounce of integrity
“Palestine is the most vivid manifestation of the colonial condition upheld in the 21st century … If the Holocaust is the paradigmatic case for the crime of genocide and South Africa for that of apartheid, then the crime against the Palestinian people must be called the Nakba.” —Rabea Eghbariah
The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.
www.thenation.com
November 22, 2023 at 3:48 PM
It’s a shame all the money & privilege in the world can’t buy an ounce of integrity
My ghoulish short story ‘Naraka’, adapted into podcast form. Give it a listen if you’re a ghoul or a fan of the epistolary story style.
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www.spreaker.com/user/1493480...
Naraka by Raiff Taranday
A Japanese couple receives a letter about their impending death. The man who wrote it has an interesting story to tell.
Raiff Taranday is an emerging author and veteran elementary school teacher from
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November 18, 2023 at 10:05 PM
My ghoulish short story ‘Naraka’, adapted into podcast form. Give it a listen if you’re a ghoul or a fan of the epistolary story style.
www.spreaker.com/user/1493480...
www.spreaker.com/user/1493480...
Do you think this mountain is single?
November 16, 2023 at 12:41 AM
Do you think this mountain is single?
My second published story, “In the Mango Grove”. It’s got sacred prostitution, the death of a sage, & is my dad’s favorite thing I’ve written.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2023/03/fict...
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2023/03/fict...
October 30, 2023 at 5:23 PM
My second published story, “In the Mango Grove”. It’s got sacred prostitution, the death of a sage, & is my dad’s favorite thing I’ve written.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2023/03/fict...
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2023/03/fict...
Criminals often make the best cops but the inverse is rarely true
October 27, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Criminals often make the best cops but the inverse is rarely true
Thinking of ways to make some extra cash while I continue pursuing my writing dream.
Do they still hire off-season caretakers for evil hotels?
Do they still hire off-season caretakers for evil hotels?
October 25, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Thinking of ways to make some extra cash while I continue pursuing my writing dream.
Do they still hire off-season caretakers for evil hotels?
Do they still hire off-season caretakers for evil hotels?
My first published story. Check it out if you’re into existential dread or identity-erasing sex.
I wrote it when I was 21, nothing but a young man w/ a very depressing dream
I wrote it when I was 21, nothing but a young man w/ a very depressing dream
Literary Magazine
www.therumen.com
October 25, 2023 at 1:11 PM
My first published story. Check it out if you’re into existential dread or identity-erasing sex.
I wrote it when I was 21, nothing but a young man w/ a very depressing dream
I wrote it when I was 21, nothing but a young man w/ a very depressing dream
Excited for Spooky Season!
October 24, 2023 at 2:33 AM
Excited for Spooky Season!