Short Stories Tributes to Clark Ashton Smith

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2005

Dennis L. Siluk

“And so it may be asked by healers how one philosopher gets his immunity to a certain disease, and at what price; and there is… ” (9 December)

Simon Whitechapel

“Évariste Laroche had been destined for some high professorship in a French or German academy, but was orphaned at the age of fifteen when the… ” (30 June)

Susan Denholm

“Down the shrunken river Sangwa to the high-towered city of Aubacor, on a flesh-searing day of high summer, came the wizard Yuudakh, steering a coracle… ” (28 February)

2004

James Ambuehl

“1Although it had been many a month since Satampra Zeiros, master-thief of all Hyperborea had set eyes upon his latest in a long string of… ” (31 July)

James Ambuehl

“1Satampra Zeiros looked back and squinted into the desert sun, staring off into the distance. The dust-clouds billowing high into the sky told him that… ” (31 May)

Joshua Abramsky

“Millennia of civilisation, countless cycles of ease and pomp beneath a lushly warm Miocene sun that still warded Mhu Thulan against the slow white serpents… ” (1 May)

Sam Guisbourne

“In his youth, when the Emperor had visited the far southern province of Gnerrultan, there had been talk of Formigiddan Asphuul acting as assistant guide… ” (1 April)

Frederick J. Mayer

“"Wake-up! Had this dream stopped?..." click. With a morphean thanatoid mind shroud temporarily removed and a simple yawn, Dr. Koh Rei-am turned the machine off… ” (1 March)

Sam Guisbourne

“"Even here my enemy pursues me," the priest Quullaleloth murmured to himself, watching the black sand stir as a fortuitous conjunction of opened doors allowed… ” (29 February)

J. Erik Hall

“Super Bowl Sunday can be a lonely time for a man who has little interest in watching the game. In years past, I would have… ” (31 January)

Robert Gibson

“"It is indeed unfortunate, Dr Royden," said Professor Sherman of the Interplanetary Survey, "that visitors are not at the moment to be allowed to travel… ” (31 January)

2003

Simon Whitechapel

“To slytte, at ye Momente of pæderastick Paroxysme, ye Throate of thy Mounte, pourynge ye Whyle ye steamynge Flux of thy Senna-stimulated Bowelles, this, &… ” (1 December)

Simon Whitechapel

“In the moments since the binding of his hands and feet the faces of the massed rows of spectators, towering towards a sky burning harsh,… ” (1 December)

2002

John W. Patterson

“Hylum Sendak was used to it by now. The dark, the cold, the sticky white things drifting by, and that buzzing sound in his head… ” (1 October)

Simon Whitechapel

“It was in such things that the hand of Providence was seen clearly at work, Thomas de Tourcrémée, the Dominican Prior of the Monastery of… ” (1 October)

Simon Whitechapel

“Of the great city of Nraqlommbeth few tales speak in these latter days, and these briefly, referring to it only as the setting of a… ” (1 September)

Fermín Moreno González

“Once there was a time of hopeful quietness in Memphira. It was then that its yoke-enslaved denizens dared to look up at the unmoved divinities… ” (1 January)

2001

Fermín Moreno González

“People say that Zalahar, the Forgotten amidst the dunes, Shahir Empire last embers, forgot for some time Yalaud's cult, favouring a new kinder-faced god.Thus, Mnibo's… ” (1 January)

2000

Darius Klein

“Inside the palanquin was delightfully cool and dark; the emperor, with his hand of tapering bony fingers, pushed aside the red linen from the window… ” (1 July)

Garnett Elliott

“One warm spring morning, the reeve Hugh de Manchefort was out among his gardens supervising the early planting. Amidst flowering chamomile and carefully cropped bushes… ” (1 February)

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