Description:
 
Lacey and her husband Frank work at Johnson Robotics, where rival research teams race to perfect shrinking technology. After a public scandal derails one team, Frank secretly builds his own working shrink ray at home—keeping it completely off the books. What starts as a private marital experiment quickly becomes something far more useful when workplace rivalries turn ugly and the competition needs to be . . . reduced. A sharp, darkly playful story of corporate intrigue, secret technology, and the very personal ways a couple can settle scores once size is no longer an equalizer.
 
(shrink ray, workplace rivalry, size difference, revenge, vore)
 
Excerpt:
 
Lacey hadn’t been working at Johnson Robotics long when she met Frank, fell in love, and promptly married him. Most people would have waited a few years, but not those two. Those two were inseparable. She rarely saw him around the office, but that was to be expected. She did clerical work, a little marketing, and a whole lot of public relations. The researchers in the lab were just now getting their good name back after a series of short, but damaging newspaper articles. It wasn’t even Frank’s team who was involved in the mess, but Johnson Robotics as a whole had been slapped on the wrist—and slapped with heavy fines, as well.
 
There were three teams in-house, and they were all working on shrinking technology.
 
The teams were all given novelty names—Team Gulliver, Team Alice, and Frank’s team—Team Stature. They were all named after literary and comic book size-changers. Team Gulliver, led by a ruthless and handsome man named Brett Gentry, had been the closest to perfecting miniaturization technology. But when it was leaked to the public that they’d been testing on cats, and that the cats promptly exploded after shrinking a mere ten-percent, the research halted. This was a lucky break for Team Alice and Team Stature, as Team Gulliver was disbanded and their assets shared openly with the remaining two teams under Johnson Robotics. Frank had learned rather quickly what had gone wrong with their tech, and worked tirelessly to fix it.
 
“Do you think tonight will be the night?” Lacey asked Frank one evening before she left. They worked near opposite shifts, but the hours he’d been putting into the research lab meant that there was a heavy overlap.
 
“I’m hoping. The inanimate objects are shrinking by fifty percent with no adverse effects. At least none we can see.” He was stuffing his face with ramen noodles while reading over the research data.
 
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8,214 words
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