The Decameron Project

AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SWEPT THE WORLD, WE ASKED 29 AUTHORS TO WRITE NEW SHORT STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MOMENT. Contents: Margaret Atwood - Impatient Griselda Edwidge Danticat - One Thing Tommy Orange - The Team Charles Yu - Systems Karen Russell - Line 19 Woodstock/​Glisan David Mitchell - If Wishes Was Horses Colm Toibin - Tales from the L.A. River Victor LaValle - Recognition Mia Couto - An Obliging Robber Uzodinma Iweala - Sleep Liz Moore - Clinical Notes Etgar Keret - Outside Paolo Giordano - The Perfect Travel Buddy Mona Awad - A Blue Sky Like This Leila Slimani - The Rock Andrew O’Hagan - Keepsakes Rachel Kushner - The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase Kamila Shamsie - The Walk Téa Obreht - The Morningside Alejandro Zambra - Screen Time Dinaw Mengestu - How We Used to Play Rivers Solomon - Prudent Girls Yiyun Li - Under the Magnolia Dina Nayeri - The Cellar Esi Edugyan - To the Wall Laila Lalami - That Time at My Brother’s Wedding Julián Fuks - A Time of Death, the Death of Time John Wray - Barcelona: Open City Matthew Baker - Origin Story