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Behind the Curtain: The Moment That Became The Invisible People
I once walked past a man sitting on a curb outside a donut shop.
He was hunched forward, surrounded by plastic bags and silence, utterly still—like someone the world had already forgotten. In my hands, I held a dozen donuts and a box of coffee for some real estate associates I barely knew. Professional networking. A gesture of courtesy.
I saw him for only a second… and kept walking.
But halfway to my car, something stopped me cold. It wasn't guilt. It was clarity. I had just assigned value to two very different people. I deemed my colleagues worthy of warmth, sugar, and time. And this man? I had instinctively decided he was less. Less deserving. Less human.
That realization unraveled me.
I turned around, bought more donuts and fresh coffee, and handed them to him without a word. He looked up, nodded slightly, and disappeared down an alley—becoming invisible again.
That moment never left me.
The Invisible People was born from that collision between instinct and conviction. It's fiction—a sci-fi mystery with shadow corridors and unseen forces—but its heartbeat is real. It asks: What if those we ignore were not just forgotten but taken, absorbed into something larger? What if their invisibility had a cost for us all?
The truth is, invisibility is rarely about the unseen. It's about the unacknowledged. We learn to slide past those who make us uncomfortable—veterans with cardboard signs, mothers with children huddled outside bus stations, elderly men sitting alone on park benches. They fade from our awareness not because they cease to exist, but because we choose not to look too long.
Writing this book forced me to look closer. To remember. To ask uncomfortable questions about how we assign worth to one another.
The invisible people are still here. This story is my way of making sure we see them.
— Jeremiah MoonThe Invisible People
He was hunched forward, surrounded by plastic bags and silence, utterly still—like someone the world had already forgotten. In my hands, I held a dozen donuts and a box of coffee for some real estate associates I barely knew. Professional networking. A gesture of courtesy.
I saw him for only a second… and kept walking.
But halfway to my car, something stopped me cold. It wasn't guilt. It was clarity. I had just assigned value to two very different people. I deemed my colleagues worthy of warmth, sugar, and time. And this man? I had instinctively decided he was less. Less deserving. Less human.
That realization unraveled me.
I turned around, bought more donuts and fresh coffee, and handed them to him without a word. He looked up, nodded slightly, and disappeared down an alley—becoming invisible again.
That moment never left me.
The Invisible People was born from that collision between instinct and conviction. It's fiction—a sci-fi mystery with shadow corridors and unseen forces—but its heartbeat is real. It asks: What if those we ignore were not just forgotten but taken, absorbed into something larger? What if their invisibility had a cost for us all?
The truth is, invisibility is rarely about the unseen. It's about the unacknowledged. We learn to slide past those who make us uncomfortable—veterans with cardboard signs, mothers with children huddled outside bus stations, elderly men sitting alone on park benches. They fade from our awareness not because they cease to exist, but because we choose not to look too long.
Writing this book forced me to look closer. To remember. To ask uncomfortable questions about how we assign worth to one another.
The invisible people are still here. This story is my way of making sure we see them.
— Jeremiah MoonThe Invisible People
