The Pentameron; or, The Five Days of Fifty Stories

by Stewart Berg____________________releasing April 2026

A classic’s postmodern rebirth, with no liveliness lost

The Pentameron is the story of five Puget Sound friends who escape to Lake Chelan during the worst days of the Covid pandemic. There, to pass the week, they decide to tell stories — with the caveat that they be true — of the people back home. Both romance novel and a satire of the romance novel, the Pentameron is an adaption of the 15th century classic “Cent Nouvelle Nouvelles” that is able to stand beside Boccaccio’s Decameron as well as the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre.

Read Day One, Story Two HERE. Read Day One, Story Five HERE.