The best American short stories 2020: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines

Godmother tea / Selena Anderson

The apartment / T.C. Boyle

A faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed / Jason Brown

Sibling rivalry / Michael Byers

The nanny / Emma Cline

Halloween / Marian Crotty

Something Street / Carolyn Ferrell

This is pleasure / Mary Gaitskill

In the event / Meng Jin

The children / Andrea Lee

Rubberdust / Sarah Thankam Mathews

It's not you / Elizabeth McCracken

Liberté / Scott Nadelson

Howl Palace / Leigh Newman

The nine-tailed fox explains / Jane Pek

The hands of dirty children / Alejandro Puyana

Octopus VII / Anna Reeser

Enlightenment / William Pei Shih

Kennedy / Kevin Wilson

The special world / Tiphanie Yanique.