Sly Lisp program only shows first prompt

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I'm following along with the book Practical Common Lisp and I'm getting unexpected behavior. The code is the following:

(defun prompt-read (prompt)
  (format *standard-output* "~a: " prompt)
  (force-output *standard-output*)
  (read-line *standard-input*))

(defun prompt-for-cd ()
  (make-cd
   (prompt-read "Title")
   (prompt-read "Artist")
   (or (parse-integer (prompt-read "Rating") :junk-allowed t) 0)
   (y-or-n-p "Ripped [y/n]: ")))

The program is supposed to prompt a user for a title, accept a title, prompt a user for an artist, accept an artist, etc. until the user has entered all the information. Just running prompt-read in the REPL successfully prompts the user for the desired prompt and returns the result. However, this is my output from running prompt-for-cd: enter image description here

My program still accepts input, but it stops prompting the user after the first prompt.

Compiling and loading the file where I define the functions seems to show the prompts that should have been shown to the user the last time I ran prompt-for-cd. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like: enter image description here

After some investigation, I noticed that this is only happening in Sly's REPL. Here's the output of the program when I just load the file with SBCL: enter image description here

How can I get console prompts to work as expected in Sly?

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