There was plenty of blame to go around, if there had been anyone left to seek a scapegoat.The president would have blamed the military officers on the scene. As the Commander-in-Chief he was ultimately responsible for the operation, he would admit, but only insofar as the decision to use lethal force was his. The burden of carrying out the operation fell on the shoulders of first the brigadier general who had overseen the Army Corps of Engineers work in isolating Eva Watkins and keeping her fed

Towering over the landscape around her, rising higher than any mountain for hundreds of miles, Naomi had eclipsed any gluttonous woman’s achievement before her. Even the women said to have grown large enough to cover cities with their fat (which few people today believed had actually existed, or at least were as large as the legends surrounding them said) couldn’t compare to the young woman who had flattened dozens of square miles with her incalculable tonnage. She had literally remade the f

The Queen was dead.Long live the Queen.After eating tens of thousands of people (at a conservative estimate) Keiko had eaten the single most consequential person to ever live. Monella the Supreme had declared herself the Empress of All Reality, and for years her conquest of universes had gone unhindered, proving her point. Until she met Keiko, agreed to a sumo match with her for the fate of Earth, and was promptly eaten by the mountain-sized young woman.The remains of Monella’s army and admini

A tube as thick as a monster truck tire lead to a nozzle the size of a bodybuilder’s thigh, clamped between Keiko’s lips and pouring gallons of pureed food every second. At random points throughout the day the city-sized sumo wunderkind would open her mouth wide and let a gaggle of people crawl into her mouth, sliding down her throat propelled by the food slurry. Then she would close her lips and resume gulping.Absolute gluttony. That was how Keiko defined her life now. She dedicated every w

Naomi just wanted to eat.This was not referring to her current state as a pinkish blob bigger than most cities. This was her chief ambition, had always been her chief ambition. As a child she possessed a gluttonous streak her mother had, in her best interests, done what she could to curb, but as she had grown up and become more self-reliant (especially once she discovered her ability to vore) Gwen had let slip her impulse to control her daughter, while Naomi had readily let her appetite off the

Trying to get control of Eva Watkins was like attempting to bottle a hurricane; she was certainly closer to a force of nature, surpassing any woman’s ability to eat and grow and still remaining mobile through all of this. If she had possessed even the slightest desire she could steamroll over half the state before a legitimate response could be mobilized against her.And even then those in the military were unsure of how effective arms or explosives would be. The typical woman possessed a certa

Keiko would never deny that her personality was driven by selfishness and an endless pursuit of satisfying her own desires. Aside from her parents she was ambivalent if not oblivious to the needs and moods of others; part of this was growing up rich and privileged, but primarily it stemmed from how her indulgence of her appetite so often involved eating other people. When you were accustomed to treating almost everyone around you as potential food you don’t spend much thought or emotion on the

When Melody crossed into her second time zone the people who had been confidently arguing that her unimpeded growth did not pose any real long-term problem started to fall silent. A single woman growing big enough to cover a city was unprecedented in the modern era, but the idea that she would stop growing soon became less and less certain as Melody... didn’t. She kept growing, to the point where it became a joke.Not a joke that was actually funny. Even before she outgrew Los Angeles Melody ha

In one corner of the world Naomi was a mass of fat and appetite, always hungry and doing what she could to be eating all the time, whether it be by hunting herself or increasingly relying on her servants.In another corner of the world two women of great appetite and desire for power were locked in battle. Neither of them was as immense as Naomi, one being 40 tons and the other over 50 compared to her nearly 200, but in terms of power they were both her superior. For both were magic-wielders, wel

Melody’s body, covering the entire San Fernando valley and rising higher than the hills surrounding her, quaked and bucked again, her many square miles of fat moving in long, slow-moving but incredibly powerful waves. Beneath her the ground mimicked her shaking, another earthquake rocking the lands that had comprised Los Angeles county and beyond. No one could see them, but more cracks and fissures in the earth were formed by Melody’s bellyquake.The ripples of the earthquake weren’t too he

When Melody was 50 tons, her fat spreading out so far and wide she could fill an entire apartment, she was considered one of the fast-growing stars in Hollywood. Not just literally – as she was gaining hundreds of pounds on a good day, and almost a full ton on a great day, there was no ‘consideration’ that she was getting fatter, it was just fact – but as a media darling. Her cable shows were burning up the ratings charts, and her social media posts were constantly trending as the most p

It was another day at Rexmount Studios, which meant that as chaotic as things were, as busy as things were, there must always be time for wank fodder. Sometimes Rex himself even got to enjoy it, though all too often work was, well, work.Today was more business than pleasure, for instance. There was just too much on the writer/director/producer’s mind for him to wrap himself in the fetishistic fantasies his studio was known for; too many obligations to others, too much going on in his real life

What was better than being a predator? Melody would have said nothing, until she realized there was one thing: being a celebrity pred.Before she had discovered she could eat people Melody had only a passing awareness of pred enthusiasts, the people who fawned over preds, offering servitude, financial support or even submitting themselves as food. Even when she came into her own as a pred her mind processed it in transactional terms, seeing the opportunity of selling her services to those wanting

It was all happening fast, but not so fast that the rest of the world couldn’t react.At over 200 tons Eva was fat enough to be seen from the air. Not quite from literal space just yet, satellite tracking of the gluttonous blob had to zoom in to pinpoint her, but not by much. As she ate she got fatter, making it easier to follow her even from afar.It was even easier closer up, of course. People in the city – those not fleeing the insatiable young woman, at least, due to whatever sort of ‘It

Modern woman or not, Gwen enjoyed being a mother. Not all of the jobs related to the title were pleasant – so many diapers to change, so many bouts of the flu or just snotty head colds – but it was ultimately worth it. And it helped that as her daughter grew up and became more self-sufficient Gwen’s jobs were reduced to primarily just being the home breadwinner. Keeping a roof over her and Eva’s head and keeping the fridge stocked wasn’t too much of an ask.Particularly when Eva’s sel

Even with the heater turned all the way up Ivan could see his breath, confirming what he already knew: the heater wasn’t working.No surprise. The truck was 20 years old, and they had been a hard 20 years. Driving around Russia, Serbia, Croatia and other disputed zones, bouncing from unit to unit that needed to keep it running because good luck getting a new vehicle, or at least a different one, held together by duct tape and spit and frequent cursing.All four tires were patchworks of rubber, t

“Good morning, Mom!”“Good morning, sweetie. Did you sleep well?”Gwen Watkins finished rolling one last breakfast burrito and put it on the serving tray, then carried the tray and jug of orange juice to the kitchen table where her only daughter was already taking a pair of chairs. Naomi poured herself a glass of juice while answering“Yep. I was up a bit late finishing my presentation for the History Club, but I didn’t have trouble falling asleep.”“I’d seen your light was still o

Keiko Saito remembered nothing of being a ‘Goddess.’ She remembered nothing of Eva and Naomi Watkins, just as her world had no trace of the twins, and she remembered nothing of weighing well over 150 tons. When she woke up in a new universe she behaved according to the only memories she had: that of weighing a little over 1,000 pounds currently, and of still being in high school.The absence of the twins’ presence in her life was, to her ignorance, the test the Japanese-American young woman

Eva, Naomi and Keiko were used to attention. Long before they became internet celebrities, well before they became the Three Goddesses, their ginormous bodies rising into the sky like hills, they were incredibly obese. Which in their world meant danger to some, rivalry to others, but never safe to ignore.The fatter they got the more attention they got. Not all of it was positive, but that which was good was very, very good. Grown immobile after a spectacular binge on hundreds of people at once,

“You sure you don’t want anything? Anyone? I’ve got so much food here...”“I’m good,” Brandy held up a hand, politely.She was tempted. Kara wasn’t blowing smoke, she was surrounded by food and eager-to-please servants. There were mountains of boxes of doughnuts and pastries, platters overflowing with pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, ham slices. A literal barrel of sausage gravy was being lugged by four servants up Kara’s belly, and if her dirty blonde sister told one or all fo

“

Don’t ever let someone tell you greed is bad. The whole of human history is shaped by greed, it’s what all accomplishments and discoveries are driven by. The desire for more is what brought us to where we are, and it’s how we’ll go even further.”




Janice had delivered her ‘greed is a virtue’ spiel so many times it was practically a reflex actio

“

What do I want with you, you must be wondering.”




Count Ibrahim

was right,

but Babette did not want to risk interrupting him so she said nothing. She had been raised to respect her betters, and as the count was an unknown quantity yet she found it better to be overly submissive rather than seen as flippant. When

From a pig farm to a noble’s court. It was the stuff of fairy tales, but no tale Babette had ever heard was like this.

This was like a dark mockery of the dreams she had as a child, her imaginings that she was actually a princess secreted away for her protection, destined to be retrieved by her actual parents and taken to a castle where she would be dressed in the most beautiful robes, sup on exquisite feasts and live a life of ease and luxury.

Haley’s adoptive mother had used the metaphor of a web to describe the world of business several times,

comparing the interconnected dealings of corporations and investment firms and so forth to the strands of a spider’s home.




“

It’s the way of business in the 21

st

cen

‘

Empress Haley’ stopped being a joke

as it transitioned into reality. While the city-sized heiress had enjoyed an eruption of celebrity after the glowing profile of her in a business rag with a small but influential readership, it was impossible for her to dismiss the fact that she was only a sophomore in college and had yet to properly enter the business world. Her ego came across as a joke at best and unearned prid

Haley’s ambitions only grew as she did,

a spiral of wanting and getting and wanting more that others might think was ultimately unsatisfying but that she found delightful. It was as if her life up until the previous summer, defined by a lack of desire and initiative, had been a set of shackles she had finally thrown off. Now that she was in a position to have everything she wanted she was taking it, and then demanding more because...

It’s a common trope that people discover themselves in college. Being away from the safety and comfort of home, meeting people of other backgrounds, experimenting with different substances and lifestyles; all this is to help ensure that higher education is as much a time of realizing who you are as it is acquiring the education and training to enter the workforce.




For Haley, her time of self-discovery had come during t

Testing the

limits of the food dispenser in her cage had claimed all of Katie’s attention throughout the night, but not

so thoroughly that she was unaware of the approach of dawn and the interior of the alien child’s room becoming illuminated.




Maybe it was her happiness from the seemingly infinite amount of food available, or

Joann’s prohibition on eating people outside of catering jobs was based on sound reasoning, and

with the bakery going through its second change in management on top of all the other upheavals nobody wanted to upset the boat.




But when one’s personal desires come in conflict with the good of the group, trouble will brew.

Katie

didn’t

realize she

had been

herding

the people below her until she saw a mass of them maybe

10

,000 strong gathered at the base of a

hill

. She had been toying with them a bit, letting

(What’s going on: after teaching Bianca Reggiano, daughter of the mafia kingpin Don Reggiano, how to vore Sofia has found herself being drawn into the brewing storm to succeed the mafioso despite her wishes to stay out of it.




Bianca can’t dispose of all her enemies alone and wants Sofia’s help; Ottavio, the middle child, has offered to make Sofia his wife if she’ll side with him; and

The blonde empress of the universe was not truly spherical, but she might as well have been for how little she looked even vaguely humanoid. And for how long it had been since she had looked human, for that matter.




The amount of fat covering Cindy’s arms was so great it matched the amount of matter making up any of the galaxies she had eaten. The amount of fat covering her legs was twice as abundant, but all that blubb

When Sofia had allowed herself to be wooed by her no account ex-husband (could she still call him an ‘ex-husband,’ she wondered, when at least some of him had stuck around on her hips or butt) the thrill of being close to the mafia – the actual, honest-to-God mafia – had drowned out the naysaying voices in her head.

The embarrassment she felt certain was due thanks to her husband’s infidelity was offset by the thrill of being so clo

When talking about

great

conquerors a common trope was to

describe them as ruling all they could see. There was no better analogy of a ruler’s reach than the horizon as a measuring stick.




For Cindy the horizon was her own body, her breasts spreading forth

millions of miles

Day

3

,000 of Pax Cindy wasn’t heralded as special by anyone. The milestone came and went

as if it were just another day – Cindy eating and getting fatter, the world at large working to feed her – and compared to Day 2,999 or Day 2,998 it was. But compared to Day 1, or compared to the years leading up to Cindy crowning herself queen of America, it was radically different.

Struggling to turn over and answer her phone, i

t didn’t escape Kara’s attention that she had been in this exact same situation

countless times before, just in reverse. Instead of her phone ringing it would be Kara causing the commotion, and instead of her being woken up unceremoniously her sister Brandy would be the groggy and annoyed one.




Answer

Cindy did not see herself as a conqueror, and she did not see her control over others as building an empire.




It was because she had been wealthy all her life. With the exception of that time when her father remarried and she had her stepsisters to contend with Cindy had lived a life of privilege and ease. She was used to others doing menial work for her, and even when she was

a servant in al

“

...

and m

ay all be consumed.”




“

M

ay all be consumed,” the assembled women echoed the chaplain, heads bowed.




Not all of them were military enlistees, which was obvi

Ruby, if she was being honest with herself, was

never

a well-practiced

huntress

.

Growing up her vore habits were defined by avoiding detection; not from her potential victims, but from any possible eyewitnesses that might be around. She only developed her skills at stealth and blending into crowds to the

“

Tony.”




“

Mmmmmmmm...”




“

Tony, eyes open.”




Tony opened his eyes.




“

(What’s going on: Priya was given a formula to make herself a couple feet taller by her sister Priksha. After deciding to hold onto it, she quickly reversed her decision

to teach some jerks a lesson. Right before eating them.




Now about eight feet tall, Priya considers what to do next.)





Priya pulled the

“

Do you still have room?”




“

Yeah. I’m good to go.”




“

You sure?” The man looked at his phone again. “It’s three adults. Average size, all of them, but... Three of them?”

The internal monologue running through Katie’s head was still going, telling her to keep eating and growing fatter, and the blonde giantess pear was eager to obey. But as singularly focused as her attention had been for hours now, even the insatiable gluttoness couldn’t miss that something had happened to her.




Something besides the impossible weight gain and height growth, of course.

“

Did they ask if there have been any further changes?”




“

They do every other day. I think they think they’re being sly, bringing it up as

an offhand ‘one more thing’ at the end of their calls, but they’re anxious.”

“

Shut up and feed me!”




Five simple words that changed everything.




Except things had already been changing before that moment. For months one young woman had been experiencing a shift in personality, the transformation not that remarkable

in what it was

Cindy

had once

worried she was too kind, which sounded a lot like answering the job interview question ‘What is your greatest weakness?’ with ‘I

work too hard

’ or ‘I’m too much of a perfectionist.’




Except

it was poss

Goddesses had greater power and wisdom than any mortal, but this did not mean they were above mortal foibles like jealousy and anger and frustration. As Sophronia found a universe with a lifeless Earth and inhabited it with copies of all the people eaten by Dakota during the latter’s ascension, the former cursed her erstwhile fellow goddess for leaving her with this chore in the first place.




“

Eating the sun took Bryce to a size that made her post-Earth figure seem like nothing,

but even as big as she was Tony could see all of her (facing forward, at least)

. From his customary spot on her shoulder

he saw

all the way to the tip of

his goddess-girlfriend’s

nose

Three-quarters of the United States and almost a quarter of Canada was populated by a single woman. Not because every

one else

had abandoned such a large swath of land, but because she had claimed all that territory for herself by covering it with her own fat.

When the sun cleared the apex of her belly the far side of her gut was still in darkness; when she woke up it was neither dawn nor night f