Short stories published in 2020

Listing 111 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.

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 boy and his dysfunctional parents take a holiday trip, where the father's stress, misery, and disappointments instill murderous desires in him.

After one of her young low-income students shows up to class disheveled, a female teacher from Chicago makes it her mission to create a strong bond with the girl in hopes it will prevent her from dropping out of school.

A woman on a grand jury hears the case of an older woman who was brutally raped by one of her former students. She attempts to understand the different ways the story disturbs her.