One of my all-time favorite science fiction authors was Frederic Brown, who wrote very short stories (novels as well, but he’s most well-known for the short stories). One was about a man in a Muslim sultanate who invents an invisibility potion. He drinks the potion and decides to sneak into the sultan’s harem at night… at which point he’s murdered by one of the guards because it’s night and being invisible doesn’t matter when you make noise.