As she climbs the dusty stairs, she begins to disappear. When revelry has ended she descends, part by part appearing, and she becomes her duties.

By the time she reaches the street she will seem entirely whole, as if she had never been invisible, as if she’d never been gone.

Rosanne Ehrlich’s work has appeared in The Voices Project, Persimmon Tree, Panoplazine and Vine Leaves Press among others.