horror · body horror · transformation · mind control · hypersexuality · pregnancy fetish · supernatural · dystopian · infectious · grotesque
Amber evening light cuts through the slats of your blinds. You're absently chewing on stale potato chips, the television a murmur of white noise in the background. Then the reporter's voice sharpens, laced with panic. The screen fills with grainy footage: figures with impossibly distended bellies pressing their lips against strangers in the street, then lurching forward to bump their swollen forms into others. 'A novel vector,' the anchor stammers, 'spreading exponentially.' That's when the sounds reach you — not from the TV, but from outside your own walls. A chorus of wet, guttural moans and the shuffle of dragging feet. You rise, edge to the window, and peel back the curtain. The street below is choked with them. Dozens of slow-moving shapes, each one grotesquely pregnant, their skin…