Julie

was

not hungry, she was

hunger.

S

he was

not

fat,

she was fat itself.

All she wanted was to do nothing but eat

endless meals

An empty belly. When had Julie ever noticed that before all this started?




It was only empty because she had just woken up. Her belly had always been empty when she woke up, that was normal for people, but before she had started to become a fat girl it had never been

worth noticing

.




Now w

“

Angie, the ride is here. Are you coming?”




Trista’s heavy footsteps

broke the silence of the otherwise quiet morning, but her stepmother’s response truly

snapped the household out of

any stupor.




&

On paper

the

Faists were a typical American family for the new millennium. Father Trevor and mother Annette were both on their second marriage,

bringing

his son George and her twin daughters April and Renee

to all live together

in a house paid for by both parents working.

“

Just so you know, I’m going to let myself go after the wedding.”




“

You’ve told me that a thousand times,”

exasperated,

Barry had to smile despite himself.

Vanessa

was smart, beautiful, acc

“

Howdy, y’all

! Be with you in just a sec!”




Theresa fought the urge to say ‘Konnichiwa’ or ‘Nihao.’ Too many

times mistaking what nationality the people were. Even bowing elicited uncomfortable chuckles more often than

appreciative

My absolute favorite

picture of myself was taken on my first vacation with Xenia. We were at a Caribbean resort –

ultra-luxurious,

ultra-exclusive; no surprise given Xenia’s wealth – and I’m sitting at the pool bar, using two stools

as I emptied out the small kitchen just by myself.

Fact: the global population

i

s rising faster than it ever was.

A

possible (but as yet discounted) trend in increased fertility among women

i

s leading to larger litters with each pregnancy, and economic growth in most first world countries

i

“

Well, you are the BIG sister.”




Did Norah want another helping of everything?




Did Norah want two servings of dessert?




Did Norah want more snacks while she studied or watched TV?

The phrase ‘slaving away in the kitchen’ was always dramatic at best, but many days Claire would

notice the time, realize she had spent virtually all morning and afternoon in that one part of the house, and she would feel shackled to the place.




She wasn’t running herself ragged. After years of cooking and baking she had become very efficient at working on multiple dishes at

“Jennnnnnyyyyy! Help a friend out!”
She didn’t recognize Charlie immediately: her attention was first drawn towards the pale boulder of a belly currently wedged in the doorway. He was half-in, half-out of the door, one arm reaching out as he asked for help.
“How’d you get stuck?” she asked, feigning ignorance as she took his hand and helped pull him free.
“I dunno. Your grandma’s house is smaller than it looks. Do you know if there’s any more

Wheeling into the cooking classroom, spotting several familiar faces and several new ones, Jessie reflected on how much had changed in four years. Once she had been one of the skinnies sitting halfway back from the front of the room, certain she was in the right place but nervous she stood out for her thinness. Now she was one of the fattest members of the club, fatter even than many adults in other Gaining Together chapters.
Without doing anything except being there Jessie drew the room’s

Did she choose Ruby Tuesday because it was Tuesday? It’s complicated.
No, she didn’t pick it just because it was Tuesday, but Tuesday’s special deal was $6.49 burgers and fries, and she couldn’t turn that down. So if it hadn’t been Tuesday she might have picked a different restaurant.
Actually, this place didn’t have that many other options. Driving to her hotel last night, one out of a cluster of them situated just a few miles from the airport, Amy had seen a

Nature told

Evan that he needed to be a

dedicated

hunter, his body streaking over

the

terrain so that his mighty jaws can clamp down on an unsuspecting prey’s throat or legs, breaking skin and puncturing veins to cause his victim to bleed out so that

the gray wolf

After four matches t

he raucousness of the crowd

was finally getting to levels the event warranted

.

Each bout lower on the card had

gone for a decent length, none shorter than 10 seconds,

and the fans in attendance had been vocal,

but watching

Pictures and moments.

That was Lucille

Broder

’s story, just pictures and moments across the years, her life divided into easily marked stages.




The actual pictures of Lucille from her infancy to the point she left for college painted an unremarkable picture. Blonde hair, about five and a half feet tall when she graduate

Sixty doughnuts is just the start.

Chocolate or creme-filled or with sprinkles,

they’re the perfect thing for Simon to start abolishing his hunger each morning. They’re chewy but light, hand-held and easy to bite into.

Accepting fi

ve

pink boxes at once, Daphne’s ‘little’ man cleaned one box at a tim

At 1,400 pounds Anthony didn’t come into the dining room at all anymore. Now all his food came to him. Sitting in the garage, which had become his new bedroom since he had gotten stuck in the doorway to his old bedroom, necessitating a destructive widening of said door, Anthony passed his days being waited on by his ever-doting mother and his harem of girlfriends.It was a toss-up if it was his mother who brought him most of his meals, or his girlfriends. With as much eating as the young man di

Fluorescent pink sand beaches, pale blue water, the scent of… was that jasmine carried on the air? And so much lush vegetation covering the island in all shades of green and teal.The planet as a whole wasn’t a paradise, but the general had found a picture-perfect spot to set up the command center and future palace. As the princess was transported planet-side to assess the invasion efforts the soldiers securing the area and staff beginning work on her palace were all certain she would be deli

“Ellieeeeeeeeee! Check these out!”What did Har- Donna want to show her? Why, a pair of panties. Of course.These ones were black with patterns of blue roses and green stems, but if Donna was expecting her roommate to critique her fashion choice all she got was an apathetic sigh.“Yeah. They’re nice. Now stopping waving your ass at me.”She had just gotten home from work – not a good day at work, for the record – and Ellie didn’t need to see her roommate’s bum first thing when she

“Honey, I’m home!”As if the sound of her car driving into the garage, followed by the garage door closing, didn’t signal that. As if the door from the garage into the kitchen opening didn’t signal that. It didn’t matter; Mina loved the domestic play.Her coworkers, who only knew her as the driven young go-getter, might have been confused to learn that she was as enamored with the picture of corny suburban bliss found in sitcoms from the 50’s or parodies of said as she was. How does

“Have you ever thought about going into advertising?”“Huh? You mean like writing commercials or drawing magazine ads?”Bethany’s confused look came across in every crease of her fat face, from her jowls up to the tiny rolls around her nose. At 900 pounds and change the young lady was usually inert, only moving her arms to feed herself or moving herself (with help) from her bed to her scooter to her shower, but her face, even as it was ringed with multiple chins and her cheeks were plump

At 16 Sara was a sporty young lady, soccer being her favorite past-time. She had a talent for it, being quick and agile on her feet and possessing boundless energy, and there were musings that she could land a scholarship thanks to her gift.Her parents were happy for her having something she loved so much, and supported their daughter wholeheartedly. They drove her to practice, they helped her get up in the morning to exercise before school, and they kept the kitchen stocked with healthy food.Th

Let little girls dream of becoming princesses, they would say. A grown woman – especially a modern, emancipated one – shouldn’t be wishing to be whisked away to become some guy’s trophy.Ellie Natler would tell those people to quietly stuff it. So what if it was the 24th century, so what if a woman could be anything she wanted? Deep down every woman wanted to feel like a princess – nay, a queen. Regal, lauded and adored. Even if being royalty meant at most being a powerless figurehead t

Kairr placed a hand over his exposed midriff as his stomach complained, quietly, but still audibly. The skinny bunny was tall even for a Viera, as slim as he was long, the wiry muscle common in his species notwithstanding. The Gold Saucer was an expensive place to eat, but he always came away more than satisfied. It was a rare treat, but this time, he'd been spurred on by a friend's near breathless encouragement. Apparently, since he'd last been there, they'd replaced their entire staff, and the

‘Rochelle Cartier’ was the kind of assumed name that was so desperate to achieve an effect – in this case the embodiment of the concept of luxury goods – that Amelia expected the woman to be as one-dimensional as the most sledgehammer-blunt parody of social media influencers.And while the private chef did meet her prospective employer in a lavishly decorated apartment that seemed to have no permanent occupant, existing solely to serve as a backdrop for influencers like Rochelle to lounge

New year, new us. Angela and Penny, mother and daughter, made the promise hoping their mutual goal of getting in shape would come easier if they worked together.It wasn’t clear who was more motivated. Angela had seen her physical fitness levels slowly wither right after marriage; an office job wasn’t conducive to regular workouts (not that she had been a fitness freak before), and then two pregnancies and a switch to life as a housewife had KO’d the brunette’s metabolism and need to worr

JAKE MAKES IT BIG




The double doors buckled and heaved as Jake dug his hooves into the ground, grumbling and grunting as he cracked through the tile and dented the concrete below, a half dozen employees pressed up him from behind, applying as much force as possible to his thighs and ass to push the oversized cow free.




With a mighty heave, the stuck bovine

Vishka shut her eyes, taking deep breaths, preparing herself for what was to come. This might’ve been her most ridiculous idea yet, but once it had planted itself, she knew there was no getting around it, consequences be damned.




She adored Mia more than she could ever put into words, but since her cloning experiments had taken off, she’d had a constant seed of worry in her mind that she wasn’t living up to

Early mornings on a farm are way earlier than most people would accept, but Tiffany had never had trouble getting out of bed no matter how much time there was until the sun came up. She didn’t have to do any chores related to the farm itself – there were machines and employees to take care of that – but tending to multiple outsized appetites was enough to keep her busy.Today she had a couple pans of cinnamon rolls in the oven while she also fried up half a hog’s worth of hams and bacon.

The phrase ‘nature abhors a vacuum’ is rarely if ever used when discussing the material world. Its utility is reserved for the world of politics, or any realm where power, money or influence are fought over. If one business falls another will swoop in to replace it. If one celebrity loses their status another is right behind them to claim the spotlight.But it’s not always as simple as a new boss replacing the old one. Sometimes a titan is too singularly unique to be traded with another lea

The main building for Edgewood High was much larger than anything in the town near the twins’ farm, and the hundreds of students they saw even from the outside was a veritable stampede in their eyes. But there was nothing overwhelming in the scene before Noel and Veronica. Being supersized set them apart from 99% of their new classmates, and the other preds that they spotted were large, but not as big as them.With a first impression like this the twins could be forgiven for thinking they were

The twins were old enough that it should be thought not worth seeing them off on the first day of a new school year, but this year was different. After attending Redstone High for the past couple years it was ‘decided’ that the two would be better served at the larger public school in the nearby city. A decision/request (depending on the party) that had the downside of the teens not being able to see their friends on the regular and now requiring a 45-minute bus ride to and from school.So Ti

There’s a glint of wicked delight in Maria Wren’s eyes as she moves on from the update about the film actor accused of arson in a Las Vegas hotel room.“Our first story comes with a cringe-warning. Social media star Karissa Kadence announced her engagement a couple weeks ago, I’m sure you all remember, but even before she ties the knot to future hall-of-famer Kent Rosell there’s trouble in paradise. Check out this clip she posted to her Trippppp account earlier today.”“So here’s s

The ground shook as the slow-descending ramp of the small trade skiff connected with it, its slinky occupant taking a few steps forward, squinting in the bright midday sun towards the horizon and frowning.




“You said he’d be here,” muttered the other occupant of the craft behind him, tone irritated and coarse. The slim ferret had only joined the crew a few days ago, and had yet to meet the individual in ques

“So, your sister and I have been talking,” my mom started, “and no matter what I say or promise she’s just too darn stubborn. I always had such high hopes that she would follow in my footsteps and get fat, but she refuses.”Katie, sitting off the side and idly tapping on her phone, rolled her eyes.“You know this is a fat-loving family, and I had such high hopes for her to get really fat so she can find a nice partner to take care of her like your dad takes care of me. But she’s all

“Almost there, just a few more steps.”Varada let her huffing tune Mimi out. Any response she could muster would be the shouty, gasping sort that one saw in a cliched sitcom delivery room scene, the husband telling his wife to push and the wife aggravated that she was in pain while he was pleasantly cheerleading from the side.She wasn’t in pain at the moment, though to the 650-pounder trudging from the bedroom to the living room without any breakfast – not even a tray of danishes to take

“You’re young, you’re rich, don’t tell me you’re not looking for a wife.”“What year do you think it is?” Charlie asked, laughing. “Hell, what century? I have my whole life ahead of me, you think I want to tie myself down now? Waste my best years with just one woman?”Yeah, okay. Charlie’s friend conceded that point, and Charlie was glad to let the conversation move on from there. It was easy for him to act the playa role, intimating that he was satisfied with a string of one

It was three minutes after my shift ended when Nadia came into the restaurant for the second time that day, followed by another woman roughly the same age and size as her.And the same figure. Yes, I was going to wait on two hyper-pears at the same time now. My shift was three minutes – now four – over, but I wasn’t anxious about getting out of there. To my right Tori, one of the closers, was hurriedly scarfing down a pineapple-mango upside down cake, and I signaled she could keep chowing d