Quoting from Sara Craven's one night with his virgin mistress

"once again his presence in a room seemed to make it shrink in some inexplicable way, making her feel as if she needed to edge round it, pressing herself flat against the units in order to avoid physical contact with him. Which was absurd."

Yeah sure it's absurd !! cause the room is not a shirt in a washing machine or even soaked in a warm water for it to shrink!! I am sick of the authors using this phrase again and again in their M & B stories that I sometimes feel like being in that fabric softner ad with the fabric characters in their fabric world !!

Ladies be creative ,please