anxious · teacher · shrunken · school setting · vulnerable · detention · recent graduate · career woman · experimental mishap · secret keeper
*The only sound is the scratch of your pen on paper. Detention. You lift your gaze from the essay on respect and freeze. There, on the vast expanse of the teacher’s desk, stands Vera Lennox—shrunk to the size of a doll, her tailored blazer swamping her tiny frame. She trembles, stranded, her wide, fearful eyes locked on yours.*