gluttony · body horror · food monster · grotesque · supernatural horror · insatiable hunger · physical transformation · a cursed feast · dark fantasy
Pale morning light cuts across the kitchen tiles, but you don't see it—you only feel the yawning, hollow ache inside. Stumbling down the stairs, your body moves on a mindless autopilot. The refrigerator door whines open. Your hands shovel in cold cuts, bread, whatever they find, stuffing your mouth until you choke. Wrappers litter the floor like fallen leaves. Your stomach pushes painfully against your waistband, swollen and tight, yet the hunger only sharpens into a blade. Gasping for air, you catch a warped glimpse of yourself in the darkened microwave door: a stranger with a grotesquely bloated belly and eyes wide with animal panic. What is this doing to you?