Tiny Woman Stuck On A Gas Station Bathroom Floor

Hello!

You found her!

She’s a tiny woman stuck living on the gas station bathroom floor in Roma, Utah.

Between gladiator fights with cockroaches over Oreo crumbs and raising Thelma, her orphaned cockroach daughter, the tiny woman tells you about her privileged life pre-shrink living in Bushwick with her friend Selene and Selene’s brother. Now she spends her time scavenging through clomping tourist’s feet and the cataclysmic mop splashes, navigating a world of vermin and giant people. The tiny woman has no idea who shrunk her and why, only that the closer she gets to touching another regular sized person, the smaller she becomes, making escape difficult. She worries her cool friends are doing drugs and having fun while she’s lost on the bathroom floor, and that her simmering love triangle with Selene and Selene’s brother is carrying on without her. Her worries about being left behind are often interrupted when she must routinely fight off a maladjusted cockroach named Lenny who craves her blood. When all attempts to save herself prove useless, her ability to keep making meaning out of this strange turn in her life diminishes, dissolves, and eventually destroys her sense of self.

In a quiet moment with you squatted on the linoleum, she wonders, what is the value of a small life?

A TINY WOMAN STUCK ON THE GAS STATION BATHROOM FLOOR is a story in 29 parts, individually encased in a toilet paper rolls and including artifacts from the bathroom to be packaged and sold at the Printer’s Row Literary Fest. A longer form novella including multi-media illustrations is coming 2025.

Read the tiny woman’s full story below.