can’t tell if that was a no shake or a yes shake o the head, or even if the blurry figure was the dad ad could hear the speaker. The only thing to do is to tell us how it felt to confess, or how it felt to attempt to. hmm.. i have an idea..

Very sad and does a nice job using a fantastical device to explore the regret and pain that can occur after loss, along with possibly how an active imagination can interpret ambiguous cues.

That second sentence is a fragment and doesn’t work. Could use a minor edit.