Disappearing

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He had become so adept at going unnoticed that one day he simply disappeared.

His neighbours never saw him enter or leave the small flat, but life went on as normal.

No one noticed his absence.

Days passed, then weeks.

Dust gathered on his few belongings while, outside, the world remained oblivious to one less soul inside.

Jake's invisibility had become total: a solitary existence in which he avoided anyone noticing him had finally erased all traces of his time in this world.

Now all that remained was the memory of the invisible man who slipped silently into nothingness when no one was watching.