Shrink

An ear-piercing cackle jolted us back to conscience. "My head hurts," " Mine too, but where are we?" "Finally! I've found it!" a familiar voice interrupted our conversation. "I, the great Victor, have invented the solution to shrink any creature to ant size!" As the scientist uttered these spine-chilling words, he looked in our direction with an evil etched on his face. No! This was not the kind, young man who offered to drive us back …

…shrink until he became a bite-size creature. He shouted frantically. " You reap what you sow." I shot back, with a grin of mischief. As he kept shrinking, his words faded into the distance. Gingerly, I picked him up and dropped him into a jar, which Pete had found. Contentedly, I brought him home and we took turns looking after him as pet. We were free from his clutches, but he was not free from ours!