Challenge
$100 Challenge of the Month XIX
You have the gift of invisibility, telepathy, or flight for the next 24 hours. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Stipulations of Invisibility
He stepped on a land mine.
It blew off his leg.
He came home to nothing.
Had no choice, but to beg.
When he asked for recompense,
they politely deferred.
Now he counts his coins
on a park bench, unheard.
She carried her child
through rapists, cartels.
How could she know
they’d be locked in separate cells?
No pleading, no request
could deter her crying.
Now they send her back
to a land of the dying.
He called the police
when he heard shots fired.
But on their arrival,
a judgement transpired.
Before he could speak,
he was brought to the ground.
Now their knee is on his neck.
No pulse to be found.
“The state of being ignored;
not taken into consideration.”
Who demanded
we agree to this...
stipulation?
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