There’s no mystery why I love workplace settings for Size Fantasy. It’s where I spend most of my idle hours, daydreaming about Sizey scenarios. So many invidious hierarchies to be inverted. There’s no end to corporate shenanigans with the potential to inflict Size change on anyone. Corporate-speak was invented to conceal venal motives and unethical practices. Offices feature a constant flow of new faces and personalities; who deserves to be shrunk, who’s enough of a shit to shrink someone else? Why doesn’t someone just grow out of their cubicle, break through the ceiling, and put an end to all this bullshit?
The workplace is also extremely familiar to most of my readers. I don’t have to describe most environments or their contents, and some readers might recognize the buzzwords I use and anticipate how I will apply them to Size Fantasy. I’m comfortable enough with workplace characterization and plot that I used it for my longest story to date as well as my first story with a female protagonist. It’s a versatile setting, useful for horror or revenge plots. I’ve used it to process my own professional misadventures. and when inspiration unexpectedly strikes, the office is there.
How’s that project coming along?