New Decameron: Roz Kaveney
THE BALLAD OF THE SCAVENGER
By Roz Kaveney
The midwife shrieked and dropped her. Port wine stain
A stripe diagonal from temple past her cheek
Onto her neck. Her f...
2020-07-01 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Decameron Project posts
Update on New Tier: Reposts Start July 1st
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: After consulting with Patreon tech support, I've confirmed that Patreon doesn't allow charging specific tiers for content available only to that tier. So the orig...
2020-06-28 18:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostThank You!
A hundred stories. I can hardly believe we really did it. When we started, we kept thinking we could stop at any time. We had no idea how long this was going to go on for. Two weeks. A month. Every...
2020-06-24 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron One Hundred: Jo Walton
Not an Extract From Or What You Will
By Jo Walton
Tish is painting a fresco in a back room of the Palazzo Vecchio, a room by the stables used for mending saddles and harness...
2020-06-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Tamara Vardomskaya
Tamara Vardomskaya is a short fiction writer who has been published at Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and GigaNotoSaurus. She is an alumna of the 2014 Clarion Writers' Workshop in San Diego. She...
2020-06-22 13:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Nine: Tamara Vardomskaya
Letter To My Unborn Children
By Tamara Vardomskaya
When your Russian great-grandmother knew she would have your grandfather
in Moscow
in 1944
exhausted from...
2020-06-22 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: John Wiswell
John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His work has previously appeared in Nature Futures, Fireside Magazine, and ...
2020-06-21 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Eight: John Wiswell
Wet
by John Wiswell
You remember little girls in raincoats in the middle of Phoenix summers. This one was hyperventilating into the shiny yellow hood of her coat and flailing...
2020-06-21 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Judith Tarr
Judith Tarr's first novel, The Isle of Glass, appeared in 1985. Since then she’s written novels and shorter works of historical fiction and historical fantasy and epic fantasy and s...
2020-06-20 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Seven: Judith Tarr
To Ride Beyond the Wide World's End
By Judith Tarr
Madog was a bard of Gwynedd, back in the days when the Romans were still a clear and all but present memory. He had a fine ...
2020-06-20 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Caroline M. Yoachim
Caroline M. Yoachim is a prolific author of short stories, appearing in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld...
2020-06-19 13:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Six: Caroline M. Yoachim
Dreams as Fragile as Glass
by Caroline M. Yoachim
Masumi walked barefoot on the beach with her daughter, Hikaru, scanning the sand for pretty shells or a glint of sunlight on...
2020-06-19 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Kari Maaren
Kari Maaren is a writer, cartoonist, musician, and academic whose first novel, the YA fantasy 2020-06-18 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
New Decameron Ninety-Five: Kari Maaren
The Girl Who Had No Story
by Kari Maaren
“Not again,” said Sophie from the front passenger seat as the “Detour” sign came into view on the right.
Mary, back in ...
2020-06-18 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Four: Megan E. O'Keefe
Burn Long Into the Night
Megan E. O'Keefe
The frame’s construction was plain, the empty outline of a simple door, and in truth it was not necessary. Yet still the talisman of it broug...
2020-06-17 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Megan E. O'Keefe
Megan E. O'Keefe's fantasy debut, Steal the Sky, won the Gemmell Morningstar Award and her space opera debut, Velocity Weapon was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Her next novel, Chaos Vecto...
2020-06-17 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Pamela Sargent
Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and Sidewise Award, and was honored in 2012 with the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contrib...
2020-06-16 13:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Three: Pamela Sargent
"The Drowned Father," first published in Polyphony 6, Copyright 2006, 2015
by Pamela Sargent
The airline had promised reimbursement for his ticket, but Lucas w...
2020-06-16 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-Two: Jo Walton
Or What You Will, chapters 4 and 5
By Jo Walton
4. Three Anecdotes
Once upon a time -- have you ever thought about that formula? Why is it "upon"? We hear the phrase...
2020-06-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Ninety-One: Alter S. Reiss
FOREIGN GODS
By Alter S. Reiss
New Decameron Ninety: Ada Palmer
Library Advice
by Ada Palmer
Dear Ms. Linacre,
I was delighted to hear that you have secured funding to travel to Fossa sul Tebere to chase down this supposed Petrarch ...
2020-06-13 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: S.B. Divya
S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. Divya is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of...
2020-06-12 13:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Eighty-Nine: S.B. Divya
MACHINEHOOD
by S.B. Divya
30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery.
31. No form of intelligence may own another...
2020-06-12 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Leah Cypess
Leah Cypess is the author of four young adult fantasy novels, starting with Mistwood (HarperCollins 2010), and of an upcoming middle grade fantasy novel, Thornwood, scheduled to be published by Ran...
2020-06-11 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Eighty-Eight: Leah Cypess
Distant Like the Stars
by: Leah Cypess
Every important moment of my life has happened in front of a Door.
That’s not true, of course. But right now it feels that way....
2020-06-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: A.J. Hammer
A.J. Hammer has a B.A. in Classics from Princeton University and has worked in the field of education policy. She used to be a short track speed skater, but now writes fantasy. Her work can be foun...
2020-06-10 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Eighty-Seven: A.J. Hammer
An Exaltation
by A.J. Hammer
Whenever a ship rose into the sky her heart rose with it.
It wasn't, exactly, that she wished...
2020-06-10 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Info: Tina Connolly
Tina Connolly's books include the Ironskin and Seriously Wicked series from Tor, and the collection On the Eyeball Floor from Fairwood Press. She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World...
2020-06-09 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew Decameron Eighty-Six: Tina Connolly
Texts From My Mother About The Alien Invasion
by Tina Connolly
Mom: hi honey what do u put in your banana bread when you make it?
- M... 2020-06-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Info: Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and SFF writer based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is also an Associate Editor at Escape Pod and was recently a Capital City Press Featured Writer for 2019...
2020-06-08 13:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post