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  The people of this tiny city were hard workers. They’d built high rises that touched the sky, prospered, and started tiny families. It was easy to forget that they were almost microscopic compared to the regular world.
  Abby was on the porch of her new apartment, sweeping the years of dirt and dust that the previous owners never bothered with. A small reflection on the floor caught her attention, and as she approached Abby was amazed to find a tiny city -barely the size of a quarter- nestled on the porch. Most infestations of tiny people she had discovered were living like bugs, barely scraping by eating the crumbs of big people. These had built an entire city, some of them looked like they lived in better houses than she did!
  Panic swept the city as this godlike figure approached them. Her footsteps were earthquakes, and she stood over them immeasurably tall.
  ‘They came so far,’ thought Abby. ‘Almost a shame to end them…’ She considered, tapping her bare feet at the edge of the metropolis. But Abby preferred her pests squished; there was no room in her world for tiny people that acted like regular humans. It amused her that for all the tiny people’s advances and struggle, she could erase it all with a step.
  “I guess I’ll just get rid of you all now…” Abby said, bringing the ball of her foot over the city center. She watched the tinies with curiosity as they ran through the streets, trying desperately to evacuate with no hope of outrunning her. She was a goddess to them, thought Abby, satisfiedly. The goddess put her weight down slowly on the city, the buildings tickling her sole as she leveled their world. With a final push, she brought foot down on the tiny town, feeling the hundreds of thousands of people flatten into her sole.
  The final moments of the tiny people below were filled with hopeless terror as the sky filled with the meaty sole of the goddess.
  Abby wondered how many stories she’d just ended so casually. What they might have achieved if she hadn’t decided their fate was to die under her foot. But all that remained of the tiny people’s legacy would be scrubbed off in the shower that evening.

Description

  The people of this tiny city were hard workers. They’d built high rises that touched the sky, prospered, and started tiny families. It was easy to forget that they were almost microscopic compared to the regular world.
  Abby was on the porch of her new apartment, sweeping the years of dirt and dust that the previous owners never bothered with. A small reflection on the floor caught her attention, and as she approached Abby was amazed to find a tiny city -barely the size of a quarter- nestled on the porch. Most infestations of tiny people she had discovered were living like bugs, barely scraping by eating the crumbs of big people. These had built an entire city, some of them looked like they lived in better houses than she did!
  Panic swept the city as this godlike figure approached them. Her footsteps were earthquakes, and she stood over them immeasurably tall.
  ‘They came so far,’ thought Abby. ‘Almost a shame to end them…’ She considered, tapping her bare feet at the edge of the metropolis. But Abby preferred her pests squished; there was no room in her world for tiny people that acted like regular humans. It amused her that for all the tiny people’s advances and struggle, she could erase it all with a step.
  “I guess I’ll just get rid of you all now…” Abby said, bringing the ball of her foot over the city center. She watched the tinies with curiosity as they ran through the streets, trying desperately to evacuate with no hope of outrunning her. She was a goddess to them, thought Abby, satisfiedly. The goddess put her weight down slowly on the city, the buildings tickling her sole as she leveled their world. With a final push, she brought foot down on the tiny town, feeling the hundreds of thousands of people flatten into her sole.
  The final moments of the tiny people below were filled with hopeless terror as the sky filled with the meaty sole of the goddess.
  Abby wondered how many stories she’d just ended so casually. What they might have achieved if she hadn’t decided their fate was to die under her foot. But all that remained of the tiny people’s legacy would be scrubbed off in the shower that evening.