The phrase ‘nature abhors a vacuum’ is rarely if ever used when discussing the material world. Its utility is reserved for the world of politics, or any realm where power, money or influence are fought over. If one business falls another will swoop in to replace it. If one celebrity loses their status another is right behind them to claim the spotlight.But it’s not always as simple as a new boss replacing the old one. Sometimes a titan is too singularly unique to be traded with another lea

The fundamental thing about capitalism is that there is no finish line. Endless growth is not just the ideal, but the demand.This is why Scarlet York loved it so much: she was practically the embodiment of the capitalist spirit. She could never have enough money, and she could never be fat enough. One desire facilitating the growth of the other, Scarlet had, in the short years after graduating from high school, built her own financial empire while at the same time building herself into a literal

Sheila Masterson relished the start of every new school year. Even with the weeks of escalating activity as the teachers and administrators and other employees of Wellerton Academy readied for a new term, the headmistress always found the pocket of calm in the eye of the storm, which gave her the chance to pause and reflect on the things that made all these headaches worth it. Not least of which was the fact that she was helping to mold the minds of hundreds of young people, pulled from the most

“Alyssa, what time is the shuttle to town scheduled for?” Scarlet knew the answer, but she wanted to make sure her right-hand woman was on her toes.“9:15,” her classmate/assistant answered immediately, “We have time to stop at the cafeteria for a quick bite first.”“No need for a detour. I see an opportunity right over there.”The ton-plus junior waddled her way down the hall, striding with more confidence and surety than just her size or grade level should have afforded her. Scarl

Ally would do anything for Darnell, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have some concerns when he started hinting he was looking forward to her getting bigger. Again.“I told you, your fat is just as sexy as your muscle. And when you put them together like this? Damn!”Her beloved was stretched out on her shoulder, the two of them watching the sun set behind Ally’s belly. It had been three months since Ally had moved to the large park near the college campus, settling down in a form of self

The transition from high school to college is a momentous occasion that can elicit any number of emotions: eagerness, apprehension, nervousness, doubt, and countless others, constantly changing (sometimes with violent swiftness) as the advent of adulthood, with all its liberations and responsibilities, dawned.Ally’s mood – from the approach of graduating high school through the summer before college to the move from her small town to a major city upstate – was improbably consistent, but th

Jeanette still felt hungry, and more than that she felt greedy. Like she wanted to eat just because she could. Squeezing out from under the bleachers – her belly not making it easy to get through the support beams – she set off to find more food, bouncing back to the school building.

And ran right into Maxine, queen bee of Middleton High. No matter what else happened today this would be the highlight of her day. Eating Maxine’s underlings had been revelatory, and more than a little satisf

The multiverse was expanding at an ever-exponential rate. Every instant in each universe involved quadrillions upon quadrillions of decisions and actions and events that could go in multiple directions, anywhere from two (like the flip of a coin) to six (the roll of a die) to millions (the results of a lottery drawing), with every possible outcome creating a new universe and therefore all possible combinations of outcomes (this coin lands heads and that die lands on 1, or this coin lands on head

No matter how far Ruby had come, no matter how fat she grew, part of her would always be the same human she had spent most of her life as. Especially the part that took pride in her size, her gluttony and how they both gave her power over so many people around her. It wasn’t uncommon for predatory women to revel in the power they could exert over the men and many other women around them, and while Ruby wasn’t the most tyrannical person there had been a consistent vicious streak within her.Af

Ruby was prepared to draw the sun and all the other planets in the system to herself just by inhaling no matter how long it took. She was starving, but she was also without any alternatives. She had just eaten the entire Earth, and with it (as far as she knew) all other sentient life in the universe that wasn’t her.She was wrong, though, a fact illustrated before she could finish drawing the nearest planet to herself. For as she was waiting to see that her constant inhalation was actually doin

Eva’s plan to draw more and more celestial bodies towards her had seemed nice at first, but as she was confronted with the true scale of outer space her excitement turned to disappointment turned to boredom. Mercury and Venus (and their moons; mustn’t forget Venus’ moons, even if they had been so insubstantial compared to their mother planet) had been close enough that she could ‘feel’ them with her personal gravity, now many times greater after having eaten the sun, with little troubl

It had been made clear that having three minds made Naomi if not three times as intelligent as before then at least capable of processing everything three times as fast. If, of course, she was able to focus her minds on the same subject. Having an intense but ultimately straightforward desire defining her existence – her love of food and being fat and always wanting to eat more and get fatter – meant that she didn’t have to focus all her attention on anything too often. For most of this ex

Excess eluded Keiko, but not for a lack of trying.When she had taken over the inter-dimensional empire, finding herself in control of billions of planets, ruler of untold trillions and commander of a military without equal, she had thought that she had lucked into a bounty that would overshadow even her own appetite. The one-time sumo starlet had long known her desire for food was untethered from the needs of her body, that eating for the sake of eating was a joy unto itself, but when she had tr

Ruby didn’t get hungry again, she became conscious of the hunger that had never left her.No, not even a nuclear explosion could fill her belly. Never a sterling student, the brunette had no clue how much… stuff (energy? matter?) she had consumed when the warhead had exploded inside her. Judging by the effects, Ruby now being so fat she was surpassing both coasts of North America and her head was lifted higher than the clouds, she could tell that one meal had been exponentially larger than ev

The bigger Ruby got the hungrier she got, no surprise, but she had never had her appetite increase so drastically, so fast. True, she had never grown so fat, so fast before either. But even when she had added a few hundred pounds overnight after a memorable binge keeping up with the demands of her belly wasn’t tricky.Now here she was the size of a small mountain, incapable of becoming full, and her hunger was only becoming more pronounced every minute. The more she did to satisfy her gluttony

Eva wasn’t so caught up in her feasting that she didn’t note how she had almost completely gobbled up a continent, a realization that made all of her acreage break out in goosebumps she was so thrilled. But she wasn’t one to rest on her laurels for long. Resuming her feast, she continued disgorging blubber-clones as she turned to face the south, grinding the American southwest and upper Mexico further into the ground.Despite having so much mass moving wasn’t becoming any more challenging

It occurred to Naomi – that is to say, one of her minds realized and conveyed to the other two – that with the incredible magical power now at her fingers she could reshape her body so she wasn’t an immobilized monument of fat. If she could be so fat that she covered an entire country she could just as easily become a giantess, tall enough that all of her flab didn’t prevent her arms or legs from moving and bending.The idea was unanimously shot down without deliberation. She didn’t hav

There was never a chance that the weight of the crown would humble Keiko, or that the responsibilities of running and growing an empire would rein in her own growth. Power doesn’t change a person, it reveals them.And Keiko was already used to wearing her heart on her sleeve before the one-time sumo star became Empress of a multiversal empire. Or would that be she wore her stomach on her sleeve, as the young woman’s defining characteristic – her gluttony – was so self-evident from an earl

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

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

“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,

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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

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.




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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

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

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 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.

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

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Tony.”




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Mmmmmmmm...”




“

Tony, eyes open.”




Tony opened his eyes.




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“

Do you still have room?”




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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?”