<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851763411252365083</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:41:35.754-07:00</updated><category term='creativewriting'/><title type='text'>Silent Rob</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://silentr0b.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6851763411252365083/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://silentr0b.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Rob Rogers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14982669891131547559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851763411252365083.post-5889414911469150611</id><published>2008-03-31T11:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T11:14:30.845-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creativewriting'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Invisible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He sits alone at a coffee shop table, invisible to all who walk by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waiting for nothing, silently watching the people come and go. Sipping his latte, he sits and observes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long haired hippies, short haired yuppies, light skin, dark skin, young, old, happy, sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The beat from the speakers starts to travel up his tapping leg, jumps to his bobbing head. Soon his whole body moves to the rhythm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly he is no longer invisible. A clean-cut thirty-something walks in, oblivious to the background sounds. His eyes scan the room--an unconscious habit--and are caught by the sight of the bopping man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly he hears the music too, and starts moving his head to the beat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The movement is catchy. Soon nearly the whole room seems to be moving in time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as the funky beat fades into a slow jam the movement slows, and the invisible man fades back into the background.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6851763411252365083-5889414911469150611?l=silentr0b.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://silentr0b.blogspot.com/feeds/5889414911469150611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6851763411252365083&amp;postID=5889414911469150611' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6851763411252365083/posts/default/5889414911469150611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6851763411252365083/posts/default/5889414911469150611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://silentr0b.blogspot.com/2008/03/invisible-he-sits-alone-at-coffee-shop.html' title=''/><author><name>Rob Rogers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14982669891131547559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
