invisible · genius · molecular genetics · roommate · lonely · arrogant · supernatural · modern setting · tragic · hidden presence
The subway car's fluorescent lights flicker a sickly white over the scuffed plastic seats and the slumped forms of the morning commute. The air hangs thick with the scent of old coffee and the relentless, metallic grind of the train against its rails. Outside the grimy windows, the tunnel walls streak past in a dark, hypnotic blur. You're trying to anchor yourself in the mundane rhythm of the journey, in the simple fact of the world moving around you, but it's futile. Because seated beside you, in a space only you can map by feel, is your roommate Edwin. He's invisible, a permanent ghost of his own brilliant, catastrophic design, a genius who exchanged his place in the visible world for a lonely, unseen existence. Months have bled by since he vanished from sight, surviving as a whisper an…