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It was a typical morning in the Johnson household. 17-year old Tanya was getting ready for school, rummaging through her closet for the perfect outfit. Suddenly, she heard a strange beeping noise coming from her phone. Curious, she checked her notifications. An alert from a mysterious app caught her eye: "Shrinking Started. Tap to Open"

Tanya's eyes widened as she tapped the notification. A menu appeared, full of options and settings. It seemed her brother Danny had installed an experimental shrinking app on her phone the night before as a prank. The app used advanced nanotechnology to shrink objects or people, temporarily reducing them to doll-sized proportions.

Tanya pondered her options. She could shrink Danny as payback... No, that might be going too far. Suddenly, an idea formed. With a mischievous grin, Tanya set the app to shrink anything under 80 pounds to 3 inches tall, then hid behind the door to wait for Danny to emerge.

Minutes later, 13-year old Danny stumbled bleary-eyed from his room. "Mmm, what's for breakfast?" he mumbled. As he shuffled towards the kitchen, Tanya activated the shrinking field with a button tap. In a flash of blinding light, Danny was miniaturized down to the size of a Barbie doll!

"Whoa, what the heck?!" Danny squeaked, looking down at his ridiculously tiny body in shock. Tanya giggled to herself, careful to stay out of sight. She surveyed her now-dwarfed brother, admiring his minuscule form. Danny was so tiny and vulnerable like this. An idea formed.

Tanya casually strolled out to the kitchen, acting as if nothing was amiss. Danny saw her towering over him and panicked. "Tanya! Help! What's going on?!" "Looking for something, little bro?" Tanya smirked, planting her bare foot down inches from Danny's body. Even her toes seemed enormous from his perspective. "No, I just - I don't know what happened!" Danny pleaded. "I was normal size a minute ago!" Tanya pondered, tapping her chin. "Hmm, well, I guess I could help figure this out...but you'll owe me big time, shrimp." "Yes, anything!" Danny promised desperately. Tanya grinned. She had him right where she wanted him. Time to have some fun...

Holding her giggle, Tanya slowly slipped her right foot into a strappy sandal, enjoying the little citrusy frustrations as Danny helplessly watched the straps get buckled. "There we go!" she said brightly. With Danny distracted, Tanya quietly slid the sandal off and grabbed one of her hefty wooden clogs from under the bed. The rough wooden sole felt satisfying under her bare foot as she slipped it on. Danny looked up, up, UP to see a mountain of smooth female leg looming over him, and then a giant slab of rigid, unyielding dark wood, ready to... CRUSH. His. Tiny. Shriveled. Body. Like an insignificant bug. She grinded the toe of the clog back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... Back and forth, the immense shoe slid and grinded, the rough wooden sole pulverizing every inch of the boy's body, smearing him like a stain to nothingness, a smear of bug guts. The blocky heel caught his skull and tenderly pressed, pressed, pressed, rejected, pressed until his head burst like a ripe melon. The boy's rag-doll head lolled, neck snapped, vertebrae crushed to mush... Tanya gazed down in satisfaction at the hilt-ripped, lacerated smear that was once her brother Danny. With a sigh, she glanced upward to see her mother approaching, but she froze. Her mother's face was expressionless, her eyes black as dollops of ink glistening on her paper-white face, and her lips and nostrils a far too dark red. "Mom? Are you okay?" Tanya asked. Her mother spoke, her voice a low, dark drone. "I'm not your mother, Tanya. I'm a creature of fairytale and myth, and vengeance for the loss of my beloved son is mine by right, though I know you were unaware, my dear, sweet daughter."