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lamnatos , 8 hours ago to bookstodon

Any Lovecraft (maybe Poe?) nerds around?

20 years ago I read a short story where the narrator (or their romantic partner?) painfully turns into a plant right at the end.

There was a graphic description of the character slowly receding from worldly matters until one night under the moon they stood still, struck a pose like a plant and then turned into one.

I don't remember much else from it, just the end that stuck with me all these years.

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pokitty , 4 hours ago

@lamnatos @bookstodon That sounds a lot like Clark Ashton Smith's "The Demon of the Flower" - http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/41/the-demon-of-the-flower

franciscawrites , 2 months ago to bookstodon

Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

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pokitty , 2 months ago

@franciscawrites @peachfront @bookstodon "Second Variety" is in the U.S. public domain, so it's readily available online. I like Standard Ebooks' PKD collection, which has it, but I imagine it can be found many places.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-k-dick/short-fiction