The Diminished

The only thing that keeps mankind at the top of the food chain is his size and intelligence. When you take one of those away, you fall so far down the food chain that you're sucking mud. The government promised it was temporary. They lied. When former Navy SEAL Allen Wayne volunteered for the experimental program, he was promised a temporary sacrifice for his country and a guaranteed reversal. Instead, he woke up to a devastating betrayal. The reversal was a myth, the program was a trap, and he was left stranded in a world that was suddenly entirely too big. Now, Allen finds himself thrust into the ultimate position of leadership, responsible for the survival of a desperate group of civilians who stand no more than six inches tall. In a world where a standard blade of grass is a defensive barrier, a common domestic animal is an apex predator, and the very government that engineered them is hunting them down, tactical survival takes on a brutal new reality. Armed with nothing but his military training, raw resilience, and the fierce determination to keep his people alive, Allen is forced to face the ultimate operational choice: stay and be hunted, or find a way to leave it all behind. They were stripped of their stature, but not their will to fight.