Stark’s job had always been a
mystery, his hours were never consistent, and I was almost sure he
didn't have one at all. Yet here I was on my own playing with my
settings and messing with Npcs. Too afraid to get into an online room
on my own and too poor to go do anything else. It was starting to
look like I was going to meet the mysterious pro prey without Stark
and that put me on edge.  Stark wasn't answering his phone and
his login remained gray and unmoving. He had been kind enough to

I was almost four months along
and nearing time to be moved to the company living facilities. I had
been talking to the shrink and we both decided when I hit four months
it would be best for me to move. I hadn’t lost any other babies
since the first one and had dared to get my hopes up. The shrink was
in contact with the doctor and let him know the things he needed to.
When I made the call for them to get ready to move me they already
knew.
At four months the doctor and
some techs came and got

I struggled against the rope
that had my hands tied together behind my head. It was useless as I
shivered against a small breeze that blew across my uncovered lower
half. I had removed my pants myself leaving on just my shirt as
instructed. Ten minutes before a nurse took my vitals, asked me about
my basic health, and helped tie my hands up in the rope before
hoisting me up on my feet. I wasn’t able to turn around so I stayed
still and lazily looked at the medical posters on the wall.
A tech w

Global access to Virtual Reality and the gear
to use it with has been around since I was about five. I remember my
father hooking up a few small children’s games for me to try and
the chatter around how it will change the world in the way the
internet had decades ago. Not many people had the income to afford to
keep up with the growing world of Virtual Reality, later to be called
the User Controlled Experience, or UCE. In high school prices had
dropped enough that my family was able to get an

It wasn’t my fault we were in
this situation, but I still felt I was to blame anyway. I braced
myself against the squishy walls that surrounded me as Jack made
quick time back to his office. He, well we, had just left his boss’
office where he was told he would have to stay late. This was never
good news in a normal situation and even worse news when you had a
five inch person in your stomach set to expand back before clock out.
I couldn’t say I was a fan of the situation either. My option

Dreaming was my biggest escape
from the stress in the waking world. I never looked into lucid
dreaming choosing instead to leave it up to my own imagination to
surprise me. I have dreamed of spiders with porcelain faces, being
caught naked at school, being pregnant, and almost any array of the
usual dream-scape happenings. Something that I had only dreamed about
five times in my life was of being eaten or watching someone get
eaten, the fifth was happening right now.
I
didn't dare open my eyes

I fidgeted nervously on
the door step trying to swallow my anxiety before knocking. The sound
of my bare knuckles echoed through the cold wood stunning my frozen
fingers. In my panic I had forgotten to grab gloves despite the cold
snow that had been on the ground for weeks. I rubbed my hands
together while I waited for an answer resisting the urge to blow into
them. In the past year I had been on this door step many times and
only as far as this door step. On the other side was the home of the
m