Short stories published in 2020

Listing 127 stories.

A drunkard with a habit of lying and the hope of an American dream tries to get his family out of Cuba across dangerous waters.

A teenage girl attends a party with her friend — but when her friend ditches her at the party, the girl realizes their friendship may not be the unbreakable bond she thought it was.

The youngest sister of three gives a future king a prophetic warning and must face a village that believes she is an evil witch.

In a dystopian future, an assistant to a movie star, who is also an immortal slave, must take pills that reveal her true monstrous form in order to help the movie star fight her battle with cancer.

In New Orleans, two sisters survive Hurricane Katrina, but one is left unalterably damaged by the storm.

After listening to advice from a psychic, a struggling artist visits her aunt with dementia and tries to understand the meaning behind her seemingly meaningless words and how they will affect her life.

A girl's brother commits suicide and she relives the moments leading up to his death as if he is alive again in the present.

A 13-year-old boy growing up in a Catholic orphanage in the slums of Bangkok learns that he is the final incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu and must battle the dragon Jade to keep the world green.

In the far future, a selfless woman helps a wary man flee from a destroyed Earth to the world beyond the solar system.

A programmer battles with a computer virus she once designed in order to take down the quantum computing business she previously built with her ex-husband.