The New Decameron

The original Decameron,  written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th Century, was a collection of 100 tales, each of which was supposedly narrated by one of ten young men and women hiding from the plague in a villa near Florence.

So what are we doing now, in our contemporary self-exile, but sitting around and telling each other stories?

Maya Chaabra had the idea of making a new Decameron for COVID-19, and she and Jo Walton set out to do exactly that, by asking for contributions from their writer friends, while Jo wrote the frame story that stitched them all together.  Today they published their twenty-sixth story, “Occurrence at Rahul’s Canteen,” an excerpt from Fleet Elements, my next Praxis book.

Hey, you can read it for free!  Though since the stories are on Patreon, you have the option of becoming a patron of the project, and kicking some change toward the creators.

 In addition to my story, there are stories from Jane Yolen, Mary Robinette Kowal, Usman T. Malik, Candace Jane Dorsey, Taos Toolbox’s very own Effie Seiberg, and a great many others.

Check in every day for something new.