A new episode of the Deckameron podcast is available today! This weeks episode...

‘Fiends and Lovers, Part 1’

Baba Yaga lays down some home truths for Isabel. Rosamund takes exception to the witch’s tactics and seeks the help of a friend. Baba Yaga begins her telling of ‘The Fiend.’ Young love may be great, but as they say, you can’t eat it. Or can you? Inspired by a story from W.R.S. Ralston’s _Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore_ (1887).

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-deckameron/id1517329243 (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-deckameron/id1517329243)

The Deckameron: A Year of Otherworldly Tales is a weekly serialized story by Seana Kozar, featuring four characters from folklore who are stuck in our world during lockdown and decide to take turns telling a story every week on a text-based adventure site. Think Black Mirror meets Once Upon a Time, the Slavic and Celtic edition. The instigator is Baba Yaga, who _really_ wants to get home. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, the old-school text-based storytelling app is an omniscient AI named Moot who is a collector of endings...

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-deckameron/id1517329243 (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-deckameron/id1517329243)

Credits Story, narration and theme : Seana Kozar

Sound design and editing : Graham Bevan

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