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Around the year 1350, with Europe in the throes of a bubonic plague epidemic, a book of stories called “The Decameron” captured something of what it was like in Florence, Italy: the devastation, the fear, the resolve, the hope.
In 2021, with the world struggling through another pandemic, a new collection of stories aims to chronicle what it felt like in San Diego.
Called the San Diego Decameron Project, it includes 100 stories written by county residents as part of a contest organized by the San Diego Public Library, Write Out Loud, La Jolla Historical Society, and San Diego Writers, Ink. The collection went online Tuesday, on the organizers’ websites, and will be published in book form later this year. They also will be added to the library’s digital archive.