There's Nothing in the Attic
ShortStory 5,568 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"The first night it was a kitchen chair set neatly on top of the polished walnut table, which the father had ordered from a luxury furniture dealer around the same time the nanny came to live with the family in the new gated tract home development, where the identical sameness of the terracotta tile roofs and blue lawns..."
Content warnings 1
abuse
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.