The Man No One Sees

He is present and unacknowledged, a man the room looks through. It may be a literal vanishing or a life so quiet that people have stopped registering him. This is not a prowl. It is absence learning the cost of never being addressed, told with a softness that makes the loneliness sharper. / One woman begins to notice the place where he stands. That attention can restore him, or it can prove he preferred the safety of being impossible to disappoint. He has to choose before she decides he was never there.