Maladaptive Camouflage
ShortStory 1,601 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Ask me something only I would know.” You say this to your wife because you know you’re human. You can feel it in the familiar ache in your back, and the fear writhing in your guts. You feel it in the cold seeping into your bare feet from the kitchen floor. You know you’re real because you remember."
Content warnings 3
body-horrordeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.