Edited to add: Argh. I haven’t really been out of my routine that long and yet I forgot to put in any kind of intro! 🙁
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Just Call Me: Invisible (100 words)
I’m invisible, not Ralph Ellison-invisible, but the invisible that occurs when a woman turns 50. Even now, I’m sure you don’t see me sitting in this car outside the bank. At first, I was miffed, but then Connie and I discovered the silver lining.
Connie dives into the back seat. “Go!”
I nonchalantly drive away.
“How much did you get this time?” I ask.
“A few million.”
Visible, I had morals. Invisible, Connie and I are multi-millionaires.
Over mojitos we laugh as a police spokesperson says: “Available video shows no unauthorized person entering the bank vault.”
Invisible even on tape.
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Sascha Darlington
Categories: fiction, Flash Fiction, FRIDAY FICTIONEERS
Oh so funny! I am seriously liking the unexpected turn of your recent writing. Wanna rob a bank???
Sure…as long as I can drive the getaway car.
Now that is great and so true. Love it 😊
Thank you!
A fun and unexpected twist on this prompt. I guess we really don’t look at who’s sitting in a car parked among many other cars. Hiding in plain sight. I can’t quite figure out how Connie didn’t trigger anyone on the video, though. Maybe she’s just very good at looking like she knows what she’s doing 🙂
It’s part of the satire of older women being invisible, even on video they just don’t show up. Thanks, Linda!
HaHA! The invisibility bonus!
🙂 yep! Thanks, Anne!
Dear Sascha,
I simply love it! Nuff said. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, so much, Rochelle!
Intriguing
Thank you, Phyllis!
Your welcome. It was very intriguing!
You may just have given a few ladies of a certain age an idea or two! Nice one Sascha
ut on. Thanks, Keith! 🙂
Funny and acerbic
Thank you, Neil!
What a fantastic take on the prompt, Sascha! Love it. Though I refuse to be invisible 😉
Somehow that does not surprise me, Dale! 😀
Thanks for reading!
Haha!!
That’s what I’m talking about! Yes!
😀 Thank you!
You are welcome.
Damn, why didn’t I learn of this earlier? 😉 Next heist I’m in.
Okay. The more the merrier! Thank you. 🙂
Wonderful use of humor. Love the “Even now, I’m sure you don’t see me sitting in this car outside the bank” part.
Thank you so much! I appreciate that. 🙂
Being invisible isn’t so bad after all!
Fun story.
Just have to figure out how to make things work for you. Thanks for reading! 🙂
Great story, Sascha. If you think 50 is invisible, try 60 or over. I was well over 60 the last time I went to the U.S. The guards at one of the airport exits didn’t check my purse. That was some years ago. It might be a different story now. I hope so. 🙁 — Suzanne
I haven’t tried recently. I always look suspicious. (Maybe I don’t anymore…just invisible.)
I am one of the Invisibles and I am not sure if I like it. Well done!
Thank you. You just need to find yourself a gang of other invisibles. 🙂
It’s a good superpower to have 😉
I think so! 🙂 Thanks, Iain!