Jaclyn Ramsey

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“On The Nature of Shrinking” by Jaclyn Ramsey

Submitted to Contest #139

“I told you, Sophie, see? I told you, I’m shrinkin’.” The old man squinted through his spectacles at the fresh tick mark etched into the door frame just half an inch below another measurement mark. Neglected pale-yellow paint chipped away from the walls over the years like the elasticity of his skin, reflecting his age back at him. He shuffled across the room back to his wife’s bedside. “There! Now the proof is on our walls.” Sophie hardly had the energy to give her husband a full grin anymore. She was draped beneath her favorite quilt from...

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