"I knew that we had been hundreds of miles south-west of Easter Island on the night of the fire, in a part of the Pacific where there is no other land; and certainly this couldn’t be Easter Island. What, then, could it be?"
Clark Ashton Smith, The Uncharted Isle
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"the dreamless undersea of a dog-tired slumber"
Clark Ashton Smith, The Uncharted Isle
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"as the boat drifted slowly toward the nearest beach, I was mainly preoccupied with the clarifying and assorting of my recollections. These gave me more trouble than one would think."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Uncharted Isle
#shortstories
#shortstorysaturday
#shortstorysunday
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SundayBookChoices
#ShortStorySunday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
5 of 8 #SundayHashtags
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Another #ShortStorySunday is here! If you've read a great short story recently, or have had one of your own published, pop a link below.
"I do not know how long I had been drifting in the boat."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Uncharted Isle
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#shortstorysaturday
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It's been too long since we did a #ShortStorySunday! Here is "The Adventures of BLUE EAGLE", Episode 9: "The Superhero Trophy Hunter". Hope you all enjoy this kid-friendly, nostalgia-filled #superhero tale, completely FREE!
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#freereads #superherofiction #shortstory
Sunday Short. If you drive in Houston, you know this guy. #Shortfiction #shortread #shortstorysunday #fiction #writer #writerlife #substack
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"...going to the mirror, he saw therein a face that he knew no longer for his own... Obexah, dying on the altar, saw Namirrha battling with his own image, and the spectacle moved her to mad laughter like the pealing of bells of ruined crystal."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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Me, attempting the small talk thing:
"Now it seemed that the tongue of Zotulla froze in his mouth, as a mandrake freezes in the rime-bound soil of winter; and he could find no reply to Namirrha’s courtesy."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
#ShortStorySunday
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SundayBookChoices
#ShortStorySunday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
5 of 8 #SundayHashtags
🐖 "the flesh of that boar which the Torturers of Uccastrog are wont to pasture on the well-minced leavings of their wheels and racks...my cooks have spiced it with the powerful balsams of the tomb, and... )the hearts of adders and the tongues of black cobras.”
The Dark Eidolon
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"Kingly cadavers in robes of time-rotten brocade, with worms seething in their eye-pits, poured a blood-like wine into cups of the opalescent horn of unicorns."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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"the priests came in greater numbers than before, and thronged the hall of audience so that the paunches of the foremost were straightened against the imperial dais and the buttocks of the hindmost were flattened on the rear walls and pillars."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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In case anyone needs encouragement if they're a slow reader & get discouraged when some people whizz through books on social media — I've been reading the same short story for 2 weeks, The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith. I get distracted, but his prose style is mesmerising.
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It's #shortstorysunday! Share the short stories you've read or had published recently below 👇
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SundayBookChoices
#ShortStorySunday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
5 of 8 #SundayHashtags
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It's another #ShortStorySunday! Share a link to what you've read or had published recently below (don't drop a link and run, take a look at what other folks are sharing too!)
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SundayBookChoices
#ShortStorySunday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #ShortStorySunday - Writing the Rites - my #bookreview for "Life: A Love Story" by Elizabeth Berg, on my #bookblog now. Many thanks @RandomHouse for the ARC of this lovely #literaryfiction #womensfiction #novella via @NetGalley. #2026NewReleaseChallenge
"he was told that a strange prodigy had occurred during the night; but, being still bemused with wine and slumber, he comprehended little enough of its nature"
Reading The Dark Eidolon because I didn't finish it last #ShortStorySunday & frankly I have little energy to get up
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Thanks for doing this!
My own story over at RHP is something I'm very proud of, but so far this year, all the Stone's Throw short stories are beasts. The anthology is going to be a monster.
#ShortStorySunday
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It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction!
If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday
#SundayBookChoices
#ShortStorySunday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
5 of 6 #SundayHashtags
Hyenas feeding in grassland, scavenger birds waiting in the background 📷 A_Peach https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_peach/11104922363/in/photostream/ accessed 8 March 2026
"...finally he came to a small oasis, where dwelt the wizard Ouphaloc, a hermit who preferred the company of honest hyenas and jackals to that of men."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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#BookChatWeekly
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"Narthos was ridden down and trampled under its hooves... he lay senseless for many hours, while the people passed him by unheeding... he limped a little thereafter all his days, and the mark of one hoof remained like a brand on his body, fading never."
CA Smith, The Dark Eidolon
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"He spoke with a wild air of excitement, with a morbid and semi-maniacal intensity. His obsession convinced me that he was more or less unbalanced; but there was a delusive logic in the development of his ideas."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Devotee of Evil
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Short story Sunday. Have you ever wondered how teenagers get in so much trouble? This story won't help.
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The Last Championship
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“You have been looking at my books” he observed immediately.“Though you might not think so at first glance, on account of their seeming diversity, I have selected them with a single object: the study of evil in all its aspects, ancient, medieval and modern.
CAS The Devotee of Evil #ShortStorySunday
"the shelves were congested ... with anthropology, ancient religions, demonology, modern science, history, psychoanalysis & ethics ... romances and ... Manichaeism ... Byron and Poe; and Les Fleurs du Mal jostled a late treatise on chemistry"
CA Smith, The Devotee of Evil
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