“Be careful what you wish for.”

If Billy never heard those words again, it would still be too soon.

He loved Cindy completely. He brought her flowers and told her she was beautiful, but she looked right through him.

And all because he’d wished—just that once—to be invisible.

Philipp M. Selman is an artist, songwriter, athlete, and professional copywriter. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Dark Fire Fiction and Fifty-Word Stories, and examples of his art, music, and writing can be found at pmselman.com.