The following is transcribed from a recording of an interview between Doctor Malcomson, Head of Psychiatry and Professor Grant, Head of Covert Operations Research (C.O.R) shortly after the mentioned experiment.
At first I was elated, the formula was correct, the chemicals were in the exact amounts determined by my secret calculations, the mixture hadn’t killed me when I drank every last drop of it, the atoms of my body mutated into a transparent state and the experiment had worked.
I was now invisible to everyone!
As I was fading from sight, I could hear the applause and shouts of “Congratulations Professor” from my team of co-workers and the Military Leaders who had financed the work.
But I discovered that invisibility had a major problem.
I had forgotten that we see things because light photons reflect off the back of our eyeballs.
My eyeballs were now transparent, so the photons just passed straight through the back of my eyes!
Just as I was invisible to everyone else, they, the room we were in, the floor, ceiling, walls, sky, ground and the entire universe, were all invisible to ME!
It is MORE than just DARK.
THERE IS A COMPLETE ABSENCE OF LIGHT!
To make matters worse, if that’s possible, in my haste to impress everyone, I kept all my notes and calculations in my head instead of writing them down, for fear someone else would find and use them to beat me to the result, plus, I have not made an antidote.
I am doomed to stay this way until I die.
Professor Grant has not been seen, or heard from, since the interview.
This story is copyright protected Ⓒ 2014 to Chris Graham
aka The Story Reading Ape
Any resemblance to actual living (or deceased) people is purely coincidental
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Oh my! This one deserves a follow-up.
I didn’t know you had made a place to post your collected stories, Chris. I’m glad you put a link on the lovely “Lettuce” story today.
Break over; back to work again. Mega hugs.
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ooh, this is well eerie, great story it reminds me of hollow man 🙂
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Loved it!
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Thanks Michelle 😀
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Chris, this is excellent! I love it! @v@ ❤
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THANK YOU Viv 😀
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This is fantastic. Amazing what can be done with a few well chosen words. Masterful, Chris.
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THANK YOU Nancy 😀
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Reblogged this on theowlladyblog.
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This is a neat little piece! Even worse than Jekyll and Hyde! He sure didn’t think things through before he acted, did he? I wonder how he ate! Would people see the food going into his mouth, passing through the esophagus, and being digested? And I won’t even mention what might happen at the other end! Also, people ought to be able to see his clothes! LOL
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LOL I left his clothes on because this is a Family Friendly Blog Lorinda 😀
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Loved it. Wondered since The Invisible Man from way back if anyone worried how he could see. So what happens now? He can’t see nor move around, can’t eat, sleep… What’s left. Excuse the giggles. The poor guy turns to dust?
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They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek that Professor everywhere 😀
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😀 😀 😀
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Lol. They forgot about the eyeballs when they filmed the Invisible Man. A clever twist.
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That’s what made me think about the practicality of it Loretta lol 😀
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