[Report This]Date: February 05 2025 6:32 PM Title: Chapter 15
This and Marooned are the only current stories on here that I periodically check for updates. I can hardly wait until the next installment, whenever that may be. Perhaps in a week or two, LOL? One can only hope :)
Author's Response:
I've not read Marooned. I'll have to give it a look. I appreciate you checking in through my sometimes spotty schedule. I try to post every monday at this point, but it depends on what stories I have that are both ready to post and I feel like I want to post. As for this story, we're still at least a couple weeks from Chapter 16. The commissioner and I just started talking over what they wanted to see next.
I appreciate your continued patience and thanks so much for reading!!
[Report This]Date: February 04 2025 12:56 PM Title: Chapter 15
Tftc! Damn, this story's giving me anxiety, great job!
Author's Response:
I get that way sometimes too. When I was reading MXP20's "Downsizing," the early chapters gave me insane amounts of anxiety. I hope that this will only lead to a satisfying surge of relief before the story's over.
Thanks so much for reading!!
[Report This]Date: February 04 2025 5:12 AM Title: Chapter 15
Genuinely another fantastic chapter, I'm looking forward to more interactions with Natalie, hopefully some less aware and seeing how this nightclub adventure goes and whether ryan will be dragged along.
So much potential!
Either way, glad to see the story still going and excellently written, easily my favourite
Author's Response:
Thank you so much. I'm never really in the know about the direction of future chapters beyond the one that's coming next, but I think its safe to say that we'll be seeing some more Natalie in the next couple chapters.
Stay tuned and find out! Thanks for reading!!
[Report This]Date: February 04 2025 3:28 AM Title: Chapter 15
I really want Natalie to shrink. See how she copes with it.
Author's Response:
Ooooh, that would be cathartic, wouldn't it? Not sure how likely we are to see something like that, but it's definitely a fun thought!
Thanks for reading!!
[Report This]Date: February 04 2025 2:49 AM Title: Chapter 15
I think i'm seeing not only Brooke's problem, but maybe the problem with the whole Miller family in how headstrong and independently minded they all are.
Amanda is the best of all 4 of them at curtailing this and re-assessing herself, which Ryan should count his lucky stars for (even if so far he's probably the second best at this) and I can only imagine Ryan will be more and more finding his more pleasant moments in the next few weeks being when he's talking to Amanda on the phone.
Brooke herself is proving to be a double edged sword in that, while she doesn't inherently think less of Ryan FOR shrinking down like his own mother does, she also is a bit self absorbed and flat out has blinders up for the new difficulties he faces in avoiding danger from unobservant full sized humans which...she is very unobservant and flat out unsympathetic at many stages through this chapter. Just the behavior of a still growing teenager to be fair, but it comes off much harsher when she doesn't account for her brother's new limitations. Not irredeemable though.
Natalie though...I don't know if redemption is in the cards for this, as the staff of the shrink clinic put it, 'frigid bitch'. But man, part of me is glad she isn't in this chapter as much, i'm really anticipating and dreading in equal measure another bout between her and Ryan, and I really just hope things work out for poor little Ryan more than likely after this two weeks with the dread mom and ignorant sister.
Author's Response:
Yeah, they're certainly a stubborn bunch, aren't they. I do think that the bulk of this narrative is driven by poor communication and an unwillingness to think that oneself might not be correct at all times.
Amanda is definitely the most even mannered one of the bunch, though I don't think that Ryan is out of pocket for reacting poorly when everyone seems to be disregarding his wants/needs at every turn. I do think that Brooke is located pretty firmly in the middle between her mother and sister, though I think that if she's given a chance to really see and reflect on how her actions impact someone that she allegedly cares about, she'd be more inclined to land in Amanda's camp. But the real fun of a story like this exists in the moments that lead up to that sort of character growth.
And Natalie? Yeah, she's... alot. I actually had to tone her back a bit from the initial pitch that the commissioner gave, because she was bordering on genuine supervillian levels of cruel. We've been discussing the specific reasons why Natalie feels the way that she does, and because things are so up in the air, I cannot say whether or not she'll ever receive any sort of redemption arc, or if something like that will come before she does something too reprehensible to be redeemed. I think that you and I may be of a similar mind when it comes to things like this. I was frustrated beyond belief reading another story where the protag had a ruthless mother. I was getting overwhelemed with stress before finally she got her just desserts and it felt like a weight lifted from my shoulders. So, I'll just take your disdain for Natalie to mean that she's serving as an effective antagonist :)
All I can say is stick with it if you can. Ryan's got plenty more good times ahead. Thanks for reading and thanks so much for the review!!
[Report This]Date: February 04 2025 12:11 AM Title: Chapter 15
Another great chapter. Love all the bits of detail especially how he was forced to see his own moms ass in just a little thong. Hoping he finds himself seeing Natalie in just a thong a few more times while he's staying with her ;)
Author's Response:
I'm not sure that I agree with Natalie's choice to wear her thong to work, but hey, this is smut after all :) Thanks so much for reading, I think we'll be seeing a good bit more of Natalie before these two weeks are over.
Thanks for reading!!
Date: February 03 2025 11:53 PM Title: Chapter 15
Great chapter! Cant wait to see what the results from Brooke going out and getting drunk with her friends is gonna have on Ryan.
Author's Response:
I do believe that we will be seeing a bit of Brooke's friends coming up in the next couple of chapters. Stay tuned to find out more!
Thanks for reading!!