Chapter one

As the wind whips around Jake he thinks back to all that's happened to him in the past year. He thinks about how he wound up this way… tiny… Ever since Medico started producing those god awful pills things have just gotten worse and worse for him. As he gains more and more conscience he remembers fully what happened to him.

Before all of this happened Jake was a shy guy he didn’t have many friends but he was super smart he attended MIT’s quantum physics department and overall had a good life he lived alone in a one room apartment and had a well paying job at a diner. And he hated heights with all his heart and overall just had megalophobia.

But then about a year ago a company called medico started making pills for the disease that has been going around recently, cinnamaldehyde, a disease that only people with a certain active phenotype could get. The pills came with an… unexpected side effect. Shrinking… 

When he was diagnosed with cinnamaldehyde his doctor recommended Medico’s pills. He politely declined and said he was fine. Although as the symptoms got worse and he knew if he didn’t take some pills he could die. So he got some at his local pharmacy and took them.

about a week later he felt infinitely times better but them saw something on the news that shook him down to his very core “as the cinnamaldehyde virus starts to shrink and people build a natural immunity to it people who aren’t so lucky who needed to take the Medico pill to fight it start to experience other side effects after around six months such as shrinking.”

Jake immediately felt a chill down his spine “shrinking h-how is that possible?” as he painstakingly continued to watch the news broadcast he realized this isn‘t fake news. He thought I'll just request some workplace accommodations and be done with it. I'm probably just going to be like a foot shorter or something.

One week later he saw something even scarier on the news “the people who took the medico pills have now fully shrunk down to the size of six inches and the president declared that they are now B class citizens and shall be kept as pets because they cannot fend for themselves”

“Oh no o-oh no” Jake felt tears running down his face. He pulled out his phone and checked what reddit had to say. From what he could understand. The president decided not to make cities because there were only about 600 affected. He put his phone away and thought for a second.

“Okay it takes six months to shrink and I've wasted one so five months left to find out what to do”

“People have started calling the small people ‘tinys’ and any tiny without a home will be caught and apprehended then taken to adoption centers and any one who is going to shrink will also be apprehended put in solitary confinement until they shrink and then put in the adoption system” blared the tv

“Shit what if i get a bad owner there's no one who will take me in unless..”

He then decided to go to his friends and ask him what they thought of all this. who knows maybe one of them thought they were still human instead of pets he could stay with them so he picked up his phone and texted his one good friend, Violet, who he knew he could trust and said “hey you wanna go get some grub” and she replied “sre”