Short stories of early 2020

[mrissa]

As always, please feel free to chime in with what you've enjoyed in the comments. I haven't gotten to even close to everything, so omissions should not be taken as pointed but as opportunities.

Stephanie Burgis, Burning Bright (Daily SF)

Rebecca Campbell, Thank You For Your Patience (Reckoning)

Rae Carson, Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse (Uncanny)

L Chan, Field Reports from the Department of Monster Resettlement (PodCastle)

Aidan Doyle, The Tail of Genji (Robot Dinosaur Fiction)

Catherine George, Calling on Behalf of the Dark Lord (Translunar Travelers Lounge)

Essa Hansen, Save, Salve, Shelter (F&SF)

Innocent Chizaram Ilo, Rat and Finch Are Friends (Strange Horizons)

Alex Irvine, Chisel and Chime (F&SF)

Jennifer Mace, Upon What Soil They Fed (Syntax and Salt)

Tony Pi, These Wondrous Sweets (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

Aimee Picchi, Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math (Daily SF)

C.L. Polk, St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid (Tor.com)

Waverly SM, The Last Good Time to Be Alive (Reckoning)

John Wiswell, Tucking in the Nuclear Egg (Nature Futures)

Comments

[davidgoldfarb]

I think it was someone on File 770 who pointed me at this one: Monster, by Naomi Kritzer

[rmc28]

I really enjoyed "La Bête" by Leah Bobet in Strange Horizons: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/la-bete/

[I am slowly getting through the Decameron Project stories but I enjoyed Leah Bobet's contribution - I think it was story #2 - so much and this was linked from her author bio on the project.]

I also rather liked "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar" by Rich Larson, with warnings for gory violence: https://www.tor.com/2020/01/15/how-quini-the-squid-misplaced-his-klobucar-rich-larson/