Alice needed to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city for a weekend. She figured that it would be a fun time to head to the coast, relax on the beach, and forget about the worries and troubles of her 9-to-5. She did a bit of research and found a particular town that looked perfect.

She never could have expected that there would be a monster lurking in the picturesque waters.

The beach was full of tourists just like Alice when it suddenly attacked. There was no warning as a great blue behemoth rose from the depths and began devouring everyone in sight. Standing twice as tall as everyone else, the monster grabbed anyone within reach and shoved them down its gullet.

Alice was in utter disbelief, barely able to even comprehend what was happening. A few lucky tourists sprinted towards the boardwalk, but Alice was frozen. The animal part of her brain was incapable of choosing between fight or flight, instead opting to merely shiver in primal fear as the mammoth monster stomped closer.

By the time it arrived, the monster’s belly dragged along the ground. Alice was nearly bowled over by the great gurgling gut, and she could hear the unfortunate occupants' muffled voices from within. Alice’s heart was beating loud in her chest when an arm reached down and pulled her up by the scruff of her neck.

Dangling above the beach, Alice was face-to-face with the beast. It had an oddly cute face, with a mop of messy teal hair and odd-colored eyes. It had quite the ample chest as well - was it female? Alice didn’t have time to consider the possibility as the monster’s long, slimy tongue licked its lips, revealing a row of shark-like teeth.

Alice wanted to scream, shout, do anything to stop it - but her body refused to act. Instead, she could do little but watch as she was shoved head-first into the leviathan’s drooling maw. Its mouth was dark and humid, and Alice’s body was being savored by the same gooey tongue she saw just moments before. It seemed that her exposed skin was too tasty to immediately devour. She was held there for only a few seconds until, with one unceremonious gulp, she was sent tumbling down the monster’s throat.

Alice grimaced as she slowly slid downwards, unable to see anything in front of her. The beast’s esophagus was just as slimy as its mouth, but even more cramped. Her arms were pinned to her sides as she descended, with only the gooey glorps of the monster’s innards filling her ears. However, as she continued her journey down, more sounds began to fill her ears:

The voices of those the monster devoured before.

At first, they were just as muffled as when she heard them on the outside, but as Alice inched closer, the voices became more clear. As her face was pressed against a slimy sphincter, she could tell that there must have been at least two dozen people on the other side. Then, with a sickening squelch, her head was forced through the tight opening as she was deposited into the monster’s stomach.

Immediately Alice’s ears were overwhelmed with the sound of everything around her. Everyone was shouting in desperation, trying to be heard over the gurgles and groans of the beast’s gut. It seemed like the monster was packed to the prim, as Alice was shoved haphazardly into the side of another unfortunate tourist. It was even more cramped than before, as she was forced to lay awkwardly and uncomfortably at the peak of the mountain of meat.

The reality of the situation quickly dawned on Alice, realizing that she, along with everyone else, was doomed to be digested. Her breathing quickened, and she joined the chorus of anguished wails. Some yelled with anger, threatening the monster and vowing revenge should they escape. Others pleaded, begging to do anything in order for one more chance to live. Some merely cried, their whimpers drowning out the voices of those near the bottom of the beast’s belly.

Alice, through her hopeless shouts, began to hear another noise, this time coming from above. It was a slimy, slithering sound that meant only one thing: the monster was still eating. She didn’t even have a chance to react until she felt a leg push against her back, shoving her to the side as another body was piled into the monster’s stomach.

This continued for what felt like an eternity, Alice unable to see anything within the darkness of the beast’s belly. It continued to devour beachgoers, burying Alice under even more bodies as the already cramped gut became utterly claustrophobic. There wasn’t any room to move, as the tourists' frenzied squirms turned to little more than meek writhing.

Alice had the unfortunate privilege of being shoved right up to the monster’s slimy stomach walls. She could feel the stomach lining undulating all over her front, meaning that it was certain that the shape of her body was visible from the outside. Through the miserable conditions, she wondered if her horrified expression could be discerned as well, serving as a morbid omen of what awaited everyone in the monster’s gluttonous wake.

As the number of beachgoers within the beast’s belly continued to grow, the stomach noises became more intense. Instead of hungry growls and groans, the tourists were subjected to a constant cacophony of greedy gurgles and gluts. It could mean only one thing: digestion was getting started.

Alice could hear the voices at the bottom of the belly - those unlucky people who were the first to be eaten - begin to panic. Their voices reached a fever pitch as, with an impossibly loud groan, the stomach walls began to contract. Everyone within shouted as they were all mashed together, the monster’s stomach trying to compact its meals into a more manageable shape.

This continued for several minutes, with each subsequent contraction feeling even stronger than the last. Pained cries and wails echoed throughout the entire stomach, especially as those at the bottom were utterly dissolved through the weight of all those above along with the organ’s powerful muscles.

A morbid bubbling began to fill the air as more tourists succumbed to digestion. Slowly but surely, the goopy pool of chyme began to grow. Those subsumed by the rising tide of ooze melted away into even more of the thick, slimy sludge. Like an all-consuming blob, the malleable mass of gloop inched upwards, claiming one tourist after another.

Alice gasped as she felt the sludge touch her toes. She began to desperately wriggle, searching for some way - any way to escape a digestive doom. But with so many bodies piled above and around her, she could do little but give a token resistance. She knew it was hopeless, but what else could she do?

She was not expecting her movement to garner a response from the monster.

With her entire front half squished tight against the squelching stomach walls, Alice suddenly felt something large press against her torso. Her eyes went wide as the sensation moved up and down her body, realizing that the blue behemoth was stroking its belly. Tears began to well up in her eyes, feeling like the gluttonous giant was taunting her.

Then, without warning, Alice felt the pressure on her torso increase. It was only a little at first, but the force quickly increased. Alice began to scream, realizing that she was being pushed into the frothy muck that had risen to her knees. She had no one to blame but herself, knowing that it was her movement that garnered the attention of the monster.

It wasn’t just Alice that was getting forced into the lake of bubbling goop. All those around her were moved as well, getting sludged ahead of schedule. Many let loose one last shocked yelp before they were dragged down, melting with all the other prey into a blob of ooze that slurped down everyone it touched.

Only Alice’s head remained above, gasping for air until she was suddenly pulled under. She was pulled into the slimy mass of goo, feeling her body become numb as it melted away in seconds. Surrounded by liquid remains of who knows how many other tourists, Alice reflected on the choices she made that led her to this deplorable fate. If only she chose a different beach, a different town, a different weekend. Maybe it was always meant to be this way, and that she would have been devoured by the beast either way.

With the last bit of air escaping her lungs, Alice succumbed to the monster’s merciless digestion. Her body melted away, adding more mass to the sea of chyme that was rapidly filling the stomach. It took only a few more minutes for every last soul within to be subsumed by the sludge, leaving only the gurgles of a happy gut and the sloshing of several tons of ooze.

Deep below, near the base of the beast’s belly, a wet squelch signaled the beginning of the next phase of digestion. The duodenum opened up, allowing the thick, soupy remains of the monster’s meals to flood its intestines. A series of satisfied glorps and gluts echoed through the creature’s guts as they were filled like overstuffed sausages. Dozens of people were reduced to little more than bubbling sludge, and soon would be little more than fat on the monster’s ever-expanding waistline.

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“Hbwrorwurrurrroraororrrup!”

Zoi belched loudly, giving her stomach a satisfied smack. She smirked, watching the vast expanse of her belly ripple from the impact. She gorged herself on tourists earlier in the day, leaving her pinned beneath her gargantuan gut. After an entire day of eating and digesting, she could finally sit back and enjoy the warmth, familiar feeling of growth.

The giant shark woman groaned in gluttonous satisfaction as her efficient guts slurped down gallons of chyme, feeling herself swell with hundreds of pounds of flab every second. Gurgles and glups filled the air, drowning out the sound of waves crashing onto the beach.

“Mmmm… I love feeding frenzies…” Zoi chuckled, rubbing what little of her gut she could still reach. Just earlier in the day, she was stroking the very same spot after a particularly active snack started to act up. She still remembered the horrified expression on their face as the bulge slowly sank into the depths of her tummy after a single push.

“Serves you right, tourist.” Zoi stuck out her tongue. They probably deserved to be eaten anyways!