Ben thought he would try the experiment again, except this time he would go a little further. He returned to the computer and tapped again at the keyboard. Once more he clicked on height modification. He considered for a moment: tis time he would see how it felt to be truly short and typed
"five foot five"
setting the change to last for a full 24 hours.
He was about to click "modify" when on a whim he took the cursor back and changed what he had typed to
"five foot three"
Again he hesitated. How would it be to be a whole foot shorter, even more than a foot..
"five foot one and a half"
Without thinking further he clicked on modify and dizzy with excitement and ran to the full length mirror in his bedroom to watch what would happen next. As before for a moment nothing happened then he felt the tingle. Within a few seconds he dropped more than a foot in height. His silk boxers no longer hung loosely as they had done at the now comparatively large height of five foot seven but dropped smartly to his ankles.
"Wow..." said Ben, in a voice that was disconcertingly higher and lighter than he was used to.
He had shrunk in proportion he noticed and every bit of him was now beyond doubt "small"
He pulled the boxers up and held the in place. Picking up his suit and shirt he began to dress. His previously close fitting business clothes now hung on him like a sack. He looked ridiculous but the feeling of the manly clothes pooling around his now shrimp like frame was oddly exciting. He shucked off the giant suit and holding tightly to the boxers he went back to the couch. He laughed out loud when he saw that not only was there no chance of his being able to prop his feet on the arm rest in the way that he had been used to but he could no longer even reach the opposite end with his feet, indeed he was more than several inches short.
He longed to compare himself with other men.
Dare he leave the apartment?