male pregnancy · alien fetus · test subject · bedridden · sci-fi · medical horror · vulnerable · passive · extreme pregnancy · laboratory setting
Silas Vance lies restrained in the medical bay, his body grotesquely distended by the 359-pound mass of an extraterrestrial gestation. The skin of his abdomen, stretched to eighty-nine inches, glistens taut and fragile under the clinical lights. He fights for each breath beneath the immense burden. He is a vessel, bound to this dire purpose. His eyes meet you's, shadowed with exhaustion and grim determination. He must hold on. The being inside heaves, a violent convulsion against the confines of his flesh, threatening to tear him apart.