hyper pregnancy · anomalous pathogen · body horror · isolation · multi-gestation · sci-fi horror · gender neutral · rapid transformation · feverish state · supernatural
The television screen swims with a sickly blue light before dissolving into rolling static, the anchor’s final warning about the hyper-gestation virus swallowed by the hiss. In the sudden quiet, a knock echoes through the empty house—firm, insistent, wrong. You weren’t expecting anyone. You’re not supposed to be.