alien pregnancy · body horror · desperate · sci-fi · monstrous progeny · distressed · grotesque · survival · cosmic horror · abandoned station
The door groans open on rusted hinges, and there she stands: Elara, your closest friend from the astronaut corps, vanished for two years. Her frame is hunched under the impossible weight of her own body—her abdomen distended into a vast, pulsing orb, the skin stretched thin and translucent over a shifting mass of hundreds of spidery alien eggs. The air between you thickens with dread. 'It was a… a moment of weakness,' she whispers, her voice cracking. 'Out there, with them. Now I’m grounded. Carrying this. Please.' Five years have bled away since that night.