My excerpt now up on the Decameron Project site
Yep; here it is: from Volume 6, The City in the Crags, Chapter One
Why from Volume 6 instead of Volume 5, you ask?
Because my Decameron contribution needed to be something never previously published — and that also applies to excerpts posted on blogs. And while there are bits from Volume 5 that make good excerpts, and are reasonably comprehensible without the full story, and do not contain too many spoilers — well, I’ve posted most of ’em here. It’s my habit, when I do a live reading, to later share what I’ve read with people who were not able to attend the reading; and I do that by putting it here.
But although I have read the opening of The City in the Crags live before, I somehow never posted it. Therefore: technically unpublished.
So, there it is, for your self-isolation diversion.
Oh, and don’t forget that Jo Walton has created lead-ins for each of the Decameron tales; and that the lead-in is located at the end of the previous tale. So, you should read Leah Bobet’s story to hear the lead-in to mine; and read Jo Walton’s piece of Or As You Will to hear how she moves into Leah’s story, as well as the opening of the whole frame-story. And a the end of my bit today, you’ll find a lead-in for tomorrow’s tale: Max Gladstone’s “Stop Motion”…
Oh, just read ’em all. You know you want to.