This story is currently in Early access on my Patreon and will come to DA on Feb 9th.

    Grace slowly opened her eyes as the morning light drifted in from the window. “Ugh.

What happened to my alarm?” She stretched out, her leg knocking over the television in the process. “Huh?”

              Grace hit her head on the ceiling, and the bed beneath her broke as she sat up. “What in the world happened? Did my room shrink?” She pulled her leg back. “Please tell me I don’t have to pay for that television.” She looked down at the crushed bed underneath her butt. “Or this bed.”

              She turned her head as her flip phone in her pocket began to ring. “Ugh, great.”

She tried to slip her fingers into her pants pockets. “Even my clothes are small? I can hardly get my finger into.” She grunted as her finger slipped into her pocket. “There we go.” Grace narrowed her eyes. “This thing is so tiny now. Where is the damn phone?”

              In frustration, she ripped her pocket open, her phone and keys flying into the air. “Crap!” She reached out widely to grab her phone, her arms knocking over the tables around her. “Fuck this small room.”

              She caught the phone in her palm, and to her luck, it flipped open. She gently lifted it to her ear. “Hello?”

              “Grace? Where are you? We said we would meet at the tournament grounds two hours before the event started. You are late, partner.”

              She looked around her now wrecked room. “Cassie I overslept I am sorry. Things are a bit out of control here."

              “Well, get down here. You have twenty minutes, or we are both disqualified. I am not going to be knocked out of this event because of you. You hear me.”

              “Ok. Ok. Don’t worry. I will be there.” The line went dead, and Grace sighed. “As soon as I figure out just how to get out of my hotel room.” She twisted onto her hands and knees, her legs pushing the dresser up against the window and crushing the television. “Fuck.”

              She crawled towards the door; she could hear the springs in the other bed give out as her knee fell upon it. A few moments later, Grace came to the small hallway which led to the doorway and groaned. “How am I going to squeeze through there?” She put one elbow into the closet and the other to try and open the doorknob. “Come on, you stupid thing.” Finally, after a few attempts, she jostled the door open and flung it to the side, right off its hinges. “Christ.

I wasn’t even trying.” She looked at her hands. “I should be a bit more careful.”

              Grace took a deep breath. “Ok, now to get out of here.” She slipped her right arm through the doorway and then took her left out of the closet. “So far, so good.” Slowly she shimmied her head through the hole. “I never thought I would have to do something like this in my life.”

              Once she had her shoulders through the doorway, Grace took a deep breath and put her arms onto the floor. “Ok. This should be easy now.” She suddenly felt a strange jolt run through her body as the cellphone in her room rang. “What was that?”