Ten little epidemiologists (crime stories to help our little grey cells get some exercise in lockdown) House of darkness (horror stories to scare us in the isolation) The human comedy (humorous stories about toilet paper and other adversities) Healing and healer’s talk (stories about magical illnesses and healings) Historic plagues (stories about plague and other misfortunes)īrave new world (stories about a world we don’t recognize anymore) Love in the time of corona (love stories during the epidemic) Heroes of our time (stories about solidarity) In space, no one can hear you scream (stories about isolation) The idea was that the site would be a “virtual countryside” where our writers could tell their stories to the audience, choosing from the ten different topics. This way, we wanted to create a cultural event which would be completely online, open ended and active during the time when everyone was supposed to be home and isolated from their usual communities. During these increasingly uncertain times in March of 2020, three young speculative fiction writers came up with an idea to create a new publishing platform for local writers, inspired by Boccaccio’s legendary work. The online literary event Decameron 2020 was created as a reaction to the sudden closing down of cultural events and subsequent lockdown in Croatia.
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