She cut herself falling off her bike. Instead of blood, wires spilled out.

She wondered if her childhood was a lie, fake memories coded into her psyche. If her parents were androids too.

The last one was easy to test.

She taped a metal detector to the doorway and waited.

C.M.F. Wright (@cmf_wright) is an avid fantasy reader and sentence wrangler. Her short stories have appeared in Fifty Word Stories, Syntax & Salt Magazine and the VSS365 Anthology.