The Woman With No Face
ShortStory 5,528 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Ankuin knew she was in a sim by the mineral taste in her mouth. The other tells were more subtle: the fractal pattern of moss on the cave wall, the cyclical rhythm of the rain on wet fronds, and the lyrical birdsong piercing through the dense forest. Most people wouldn’t notice such details, because most people didn’t have a reason to doubt their senses."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Fantasy, where the author gets the click.