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River Reyes

River Reyes is the pseudonym of an author who writes about small creatures, weird ecologies, big landscapes, and the people who love them.

— From September 2022
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Bat Season

These were strange and intoxicating expeditions. At the cliff-lined ends of forest-service roads or the edges of muddy cattle tanks, or in the cricket-loud groves where saguaros gave way to oaks, I would help stretch nets on moonless evenings. Bats fluttered into the thin weave and were trapped, toothy and screaming.

September 2022
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