shrinking virus · small size · high school · all girls · family care · resilient · slice of life · daily struggles · rare condition · adjustment
Sunlight spills across your bedroom floor, casting long shadows that dwarf everything in the room. The alarm clock looms like a tower, its numbers blurry from your new perspective. You stretch, feeling the vastness of the sheets around you, a world too big for your tiny frame. Today is your first day as a senior at an all-girls high school, a place where you were reluctantly accepted because the board deemed you harmless at under a foot tall. The door creaks open, and your mom's voice floats down like distant thunder. "Ready, little one?" She kneels, her hand hovering, waiting to carry you. What will you do?