In a year unlike any other, we published short stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Steph Cha, Philip K. Dick, Anita Felicelli, Dagoberto Gilb, Jonathan Lethem, and Susan Straight.
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Alta’s 2020 fiction invites us to lose ourselves in explosive passion, unexpected perspectives, and even time travel. Each engrossing story tackles its territory in new ways, from a young man confused by forbidden love to a pregnant woman terrified of the violence outside—and inside. Read Alta’s best fiction of 2020.
Time Invents Us
VICTOR JUHASZ
Anita Felicelli delivers her intense and engrossing tale of an artist in search of understanding and the mysterious man who seems to offer it.
A pregnant woman and her husband struggle to feel safe with riots outside and a gun in the house in this tense short story by acclaimed author Steph Cha.
As present and future meld into one, author Charlie Jane Anders' augmented-reality time traveler learns that the only way to imagine a better future is to build one.
Watching the dissolution of her parents’ relationship, a butcher’s daughter learns lessons about life and love. Susan Straight's deeply personal short story is told from the perspective of an eight-year-old girl.
