Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Invisible

I wrote this for a 15 minute writing prompt in another group...
Imagine an hour ago in real time...where you were... What you were doing...at that precise moment you turned invisible. Describe what you were doing and the reactions of others during the time you were invisible.

Office lunch break.Eating alone at my desk.
Everyone else goes out except this harassed new intern with a workload beyond endurance.
At precisely 1 52 pm...I found I couldn't see my fingers holding a forkful of pasta....
Looking down I see my green leather seat.....but not my body slouched on it.resting on the floor are my suede black sandals peppered with glitters. Empty.
But of course! In a slow insane manner I clamber off my chair....I see my suede sandals in motion...
Where's my body? Its right here I can feel myself I can pinch myself. But I cannot see me. I'm invisible.
The boss and the other beautiful new intern come back. And finding an empty office they start kissing. Panicking I hide behind a pillar. Or rather I hide my lacy wisp of a white blouse my slate black skirt my gold locket and chain my wristwatch and shoes...
My fingers brush the start button of a printer accidentally...
And it starts rolling out streams of print outs...
My boss swearing leaves his little inamorata and approaches me and screaming in unison....our hollow terror makes hideous music....
I flee from the room down the service stairs panting in fright...
Looking into the hall way mirror I am mesmerized... I'm slowly ever so slowly morphing...getting back my fleshly form...
Like pieces of a missing jigsaw puzzle I fill out in all directions. Arms legs neck and startled haunted face.
Behind me.... A horrific gasp.
The janitor has fainted.

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(c) Amrita Valan 2015.

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