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Homunculus by Cayce Rated: R starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 73]
Summary: A tiny teenager is forced to live with his normal-sized family. Ignored by his father, he finds himself at the mercy of his sadistic stepmother and her friends, who delight in teasing and torturing him. His only allies are his bratty stepsister and the gentle housekeeper/babysitter with whom he becomes enamored.
Categories: Violent, Instant Size Change, Feet, Gentle, Humiliation, Adventure, Body Exploration, Entrapment, Slave
Characters: None
Growth: None
Shrink: Minikin (3 in. to 1 in.)
Size Roles: None
Warnings: Following story may contain inappropriate material for certain audiences
Series: None
Chapters: 36 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 139916 Read Count: 1338124
[Report This] Published: December 10 2006 Updated: October 21 2008
Reviewer: scienceismygame Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: November 28 2012 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Let me start off by saying that I completely, 100% agree with everything The GTS Reviewer said. You might as well re-read his review because everything I'm going to say builds off of it.

The plot and the characters are engaging and believable, not to mention cohesive (a rarity on this site). All the necessary plot threads are played out and closed, leaving just enough open and dangling all the way to the fantastic final chapter. I am at once left with feelings of satisfaction as well as yearning: satisfaction with the way things turned out, and yearning for more. And of course, the GTS sequences were sexy and well-written. The GTS Reviewer pointed out that, for the story's length, one might expect you to include more variety with less emphasis on feet. I agree, and the foot thing does start to get repetitive (it's a little odd that there's so many women in the same area with the same sexual fixation on Ray), but I'll give you credit since the sequences are written so well.

But the most compelling part of your story is your protagonist's self-awareness and insight. Constantly, he is asking questions of himself--and of the reader--as he probes his own sexual identity, as any teenager would do. Simultaneously, he faces (rather realistically) the psychological scarring of molestation, the reconciliation of his submission fetish with rape, and the struggle for survival when instant death hounds him at every turn. There's a delicious sort of irony in Ray's admission that the fantasy is nothing like the reality--that being dominated in the way Ray imagined is actually a lot more humiliating, scary, and life-threatening if one were actually three inches tall, when in fact his situation is the reader's fantasy, and the reader's reality is most likely a lot safer and less "exciting."

The truth is, you've spoiled me, Cayce. For me, there was always an invisible barrier between GTS fiction and literary fiction. I'd always believed there were only two kinds of GTS fiction writers: those who neglected the story, using it only as a thin justification for the fantasy elements to play out, and those who (intentionally or not) abandoned it altogether to craft a comedic or ridiculous series of escapades. The plot, and even the quality of writing, was always secondary. I thought I'd never find a GTS fiction writer who set the plot on equal terms with the fantasy, but here you've done it, introducing to us the union of intellectual and erotic entertainment, of plot and fantasy; and what's more, you turn the fantasy inward, exploring the psychological implications in a way that is simply fascinating. Usually I read a GTS story for the GTS parts, but I found myself reading your story for the plot, for the characters, for the writing... and of course, for the GTS parts also.

The tragedy of this story is that it will never escape the confines of this site, or the GTS community. I echo the sentiment of another reviewer that, were it not for the GTS content, it'd be awesome to see this published. But hell, if that Twilight fanfiction tripe "Fifty Shades of Grey" can sell, so could "Homunculus."



Author's Response: Wow. Thanks for such an amazing and thoughtful review, Science! First off, I'll cop to the the whole repetitive foot thing. That's definitely my kink, and what inspires me to crank out another chapter. But I tend to agree with most folks... when I go back and reread it, it does feel sort of repetitive and a bit hackneyed. I guess such is the risk of publishing a long work gradually over several months (or, in this case, years). But I still love this story, and I'm quite proud of the way it turned out (for the most part). I started writing with nothing more than a vague of idea of a plot (wicked stepmom, bullying stepsister, etc.), but once I found myself identifying with the character, I felt like it needed to be more than that. I love the GTS stuff, but my favorite authors have always been those who write beyond it and craft amazing stories (DX Machina, Nemo, and the long, lost Brandford, just to name a few). I appreciate you putting me a cut above E.L. James. I doubt I'll ever come out of the GTS closet to try and publish this stuff, but I'll certainly continue to contribute at the snail's pace I have so far ;-) Thanks again!

Summary:

An adventurous teen who just happens to be five inches tall has been stuck in homeschool all his life.  When he finally enters public high school and a new world of friends, bullies, and cliques, he quickly discovers challenges even bigger than he could've imagined.


Categories: Teenager (13-19), Young Adult 20-29, Adult 30-39, Mature (40-49), Couples, Giant, Legwear, Odor, Unaware, Adventure, Entrapment, Feet, Gentle, Humiliation, Maternal, Mouth Play
Characters: None
Growth: None
Shrink: Lilliputian (6 in. to 3 in.)
Size Roles: F/m
Warnings: Following story may contain inappropriate material for certain audiences
Series: None
Chapters: 82 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 179462 Read Count: 1060219
[Report This] Published: September 01 2011 Updated: May 26 2019
Reviewer: scienceismygame Signed
Date: December 26 2020 Title: Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Erica Justice

Deus ex Erica, eh? I will admit I am relieved to see Peter's torture come to an end for now, abrupt as that end was.

Can't believe it's been almost ten years since the start of this story. I've been following it intermittently in that time and just now caught up from where I left off a year or two ago at chapter 72 "Hell Wheels."

I really do hope you continue this story. I understand you're busy with commissions—unsurprising, given the quality of your oeuvre—but Peter's odyssey is something special, isn't it? Sexuality is obviously the raison d'être of this story (and indeed this site), but I find the description of the mundane details of Peter's experience and interaction with the world around him so much more fulfilling in a peculiar way. It's exceedingly difficult to find high-quality stories that seem to blend the sexual and the mundane as effortlessly as yours, although the genre has noticably advanced in the past decade—perhaps in part due to your influence!

Anyway, despite the large gap of time between the release of this latest chapter and now as I write this, I'm not worried you'll forget about this little side-project. I hope you find continued success, and I suppose I'll see you and Peter in another few years. Good luck!



Author's Response:

Thanks for the review. You're certainly hitting upon a feeling that I've of course had over the years, which is that I would like this one to have a finish, but for various reasons, I just don't have the time to dedicate to my own original stories like this one. For what it's worth, I do think it's likelier for this story compared to some of my other unfinished works to be completed, but I'm unable to commit to any kind of time frame unfortunately.