SIMULACRA

hint fiction (n): a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story.

It moves and speaks like my father. Yet in sunlight, it casts no shadow. And at night, from its room, I can hear mother crying. Afraid I pull the blanket over my head and pray mother will be the same in the morning.

Author's Note

hint fiction (n): a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story.

I tend to always go over the 25-word limit.