“I wonder if I
took a wrong turn in Albuquerque?”
Christopher Columbus* #quote
Today I rocked someone's world. They told me to pick up all that
gravel I threw into their yard. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Kinda-Sorta Invisible-ish Man
To succeed and yet completely fail at the same time. Doctor Isaac
Oldton made himself invisible yet everyone would certainly see where
he was at all times. A marvelous compound he called it. Something to
change his form invisible. He developed it to sell to the military to
allow perfect stealth soldiers. And he tested it on himself to prove
his compound's power to the world.
Oldton vanished, no one could see him, but the camouflage usually
involved something like an elephant, or a ball of fire. Perhaps
something less subtle like a giant hand or Elvis dancing with Abraham
Lincoln. He could claim invisibility, as no one could see Isaac
himself, but some other sight would be where he was. Every person
would see an unreal mirage and cameras would pick up strange images
of their own.
The Kinda-Sorta Invisible-ish Man took so many forms. Even multiple
people looking at him at the same time would see something different.
The accounts of the Oldton's shapes are varied and endless in
variety. Bill Clinton wearing a suit made of pizza. Aliens. Giant
books. A dust cloud. An angel. Ice cubes connected together in the
shape of a human, waving and smiling.
Isaac's clothes were hidden by the mirages. He tried painting
himself. The compound's strange properties changed the air around him
making him impossible to see. The illusions functioned almost like a
bubble around him. If he held something close enough the illusion
would hide it as the compound altered the air around him to create
the illusion. The scientist trapped himself in a void of
invisibility. Even though people saw photos of him once they forgot
what he looked like as they now knew him as the walking oddity.
He forgot what he looked like. Eventually he grew to accept it
though. That, and at least now he never felt judged on how he
dressed. He lost appearance and vanity in one fell swoop. He now
smiled at his useless mirror as he saw a dragon wearing a top hat.
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