"Ladies and gentlemen, Penny"

Several of the group were still looking somewhat shocked , staring through the closing doors behind them. A light in front of them was focused on a large collection of  glass tubes and pipes all connected in a complicated arrangement, resting on a wooden bench. A few recognised it as a still.

A small girl walked out dressed in a flesh colour bikini. She was carrying a small step ladder which she placed by one end of the contraption. She climbed up carefully, looking hesitant, shy even. With great care she stepped into the open end of a glass funnel at one end of the contraption. Lisa nodded and reached forward to light burner in the mechanism under the girl's feet. Its tight blue flame cast an eerie grey light around the room. For maybe a minute or more nothing happened and then it dawned on a couple at the front that the girl was getting shorter. Sure enough a trickle of tan goop was running through the first glass coil and Penny seemed to be shrinking. She smiled nervously saying nothing.

The small crowd watching in silence. They could see under the gadget and walk all around it. They could reach out and touch the girl, she was living flesh and blood. Yet before there eyes she was melting into a thick jelly and being drawn through the glass coils. A gentle plume of steam was rising from the funnel. By the time that Penny's waist had reached the the rim of the funnel a  glass flask at the far end of the glass pipework was starting to fill with the flesh colour ooze. 

Penny was falling into the machine faster now. She smiled nervously as her chin slid into the glasswork, reaching up with her left hand she waved a final goodbye as the last of her was drawn in.

It took perhaps a minute or two for the fluid to travel right through. Lisa killed the flame and walked over to the flask at the far end which was now full to the neck. She picked it up. It was not much more than a foot high or round. As it cooled a face began to coalesce in the bottom corner of the glass. bent impossibly into the shape of the flask. A foot appeared by her ear, a hand above that, feint outlines of hips thighs arms legs and chest visible in the solidifying mass of tan. 

"Say goodbye Penny"

The wide eyes blinked twice. Lisa popped a cork in the flask and walked away as the next set of doors opened......