Really good! You deserve those heavy upvotes. Circuits within stories like this are one of the things I love to find in short stories.

I've tried to do it a couple times, and I actually included something similar in my entry for the contest (I know you read it, I just found it really interesting and wanted to point it out!).

It's something I got from reading a certain author from my country's history. He played with the narration so you could never be fully sure what exactly was going on. That's what a short story is for me, in a way, and you definitely pulled it off here!