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by LittleAlisa » Sun Feb 08, 2026 2:28 pm
Reed was a senior researcher at Emca Tesseract Physaceuticals, a company best known for its production of Syrriknoumenosoros, a pharmaceutical that existed in four spatial dimensions. And having dealt with human test subjects of Syrriknoumenosoros (known colloquially in popular culture as Shrink), Reed was used to seeing people less than half a foot tall.
Still, when unexpectedly confronted with someone four and a half inches tall, his first instinct was to reach out and pick them up.
On Jasmine’s part, she was already having second, third and fourth thoughts about shrinking herself to win back her ex-boyfriend. The last man she expected to see was someone she had hoped would be her brother-in-law one day. So naturally Jasmine’s initial reaction to seeing a giant hand reaching for her was to curl away from it.
Jasmine’s reaction snapped Reed out of his stupor. Looking at Jasmine, Reed asked the question with the obvious answer. “Jasmine, what have you done?”
Jasmine started babbling, barely able to remain coherent. “Rob…me…I just wanted us back together…I got hold of some Shrink…”
Reed frowned at the use of the word “Shrink.”
Syrriknoumenosoros had a lot of useful medical applications, but the primary focus of the public was on its recreational use. Since Syrriknoumenosoros was fairly expensive, the number of people who could use it recreationally was limited. So naturally a bootleg version (known as “Shrink”) was being produced in offshore labs and sold through dealers. The problem with Shrink was that there was no guarantee about its consistency. And, since it was being taken without proper medical supervision, there was no guarantees of the results.
Jasmine had been rolling the dice when she had bought and taken her dose of Shrink.
“I thought you were saving yourself for marriage?” Reed asked.
Jasmine blushed at the fact that her virginity had obviously become conversational fodder amongst Rob’s family.
“Shrink sex isn’t like real sex,” Jasmine managed to stutter out.
Reed gave an internal sigh. The current Prime Minister had been accused of an affair with an international intern. The prime minister flatly denied the affair. When it was discovered that the prime minister had had an “encounter” with said intern after the latter had taken a dose of Syrriknoumenosoros, the Prime Minister had countered that Shrunken Sex wasn’t real sex.
The youth of the nation had taken that distinction to heart.
Reed wasn’t worried about semantics at the moment. He was worried about someone he knew having taken the street version of Syrriknoumenosoros. The fact that it hadn’t killed her was a good thing. But now he was worried about the drug wearing off. Syrriknoumenosoros removed itself from the body in measured stages. There was no telling how Shrink was going to interact with Jasmine’s body.
But Reed was determined to make sure his younger brother’s ex-girlfriend survived her encounter with Shrink.
