Story · exiled ink!
The Prey
A speaker welcomes a newly captured creature to freedom while recalling war, hunting and the violence carried into another life.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- exiled ink!
- Source date
- Winter 2005
- Published language
- English · published translation
- Translation
- Nilou Mobasser
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.
Reading orientation
The welcome to freedom is spoken by a captor. As he addresses the newcomer, the narrator moves through memories of an underground trench, attacks and the pleasure another man described in killing. The contradiction between his assurances and his actions makes the address increasingly unsettling. Source 2
The end of war does not end the narrator’s language of hunting. He recalls leaving, a doctor disputing the bullet he believes remains in his head and the creatures he now possesses. Listen for how reassurance, desire and violence occupy the same voice rather than resolving into a reliable account. Source 2
Publication and language
The magazine explicitly credits Nilou Mobasser as translator. The retained em4 and em3 files both carry a Winter 2005 appearance of The Prey; they are not counted as two stories or assigned separate dates from their filenames. The Plunderer is a different Persian narrative. Source 1 · Source 3
Sources & credits
- The Prey · publication
exiled ink!. Winter 2005. English · published translation. By Ghazi Rabihavi. Translation credited to Nilou Mobasser.
- The Prey · reading evidence
A speaker welcomes a newly captured creature to freedom while recalling war, hunting and the violence carried into another life. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.
- The Prey · alternate magazine PDF
Alternate publisher PDF with the same title, Rabihavi byline, Nilou Mobasser translation credit and Winter 2005 date. Filename numbering is not publication chronology.