Damned Babies
Jessie woke up exactly like a boulder would have. Her eyes cracked open like the doors of a sealed, ancient tomb. The first sight she saw was the red, angry digital clock that read an agonizing 8:49 AM. On a Sunday. She groaned, very long and very...
Dad With Benefits: Part 4
Hoyt sat at his kitchen table with a stack of papers he'd brought home to work on. At the moment, they were pushed to the side while he puzzled over the brand-new tablet that was barely too small for his hands. It was Jacob's Christmas present, only a...
Belly Buddies (Part 1)
The waiting room was uncomfortably empty and the air conditioning was turned up too high for that time of year. Even Cora, raised originally in Scotland, was becoming uncomfortable by the cold air. It wasn't the kind she was used to. It felt sterile,...
Tea Time
Chloe stared down into her steaming cup of green tea. She had taken one sip before setting it down. It was hot, it was in a beautiful and ornate cup, it was fresh, it was from her favorite cafe. But drinking it was going to make her piss like a...
A Little Slice of Paradise
The security screening was long, extensive, and uncomfortably invasive. Kristina would have only been more unsettled had the security personnel and employees hadn't seemed completely bored out of their skulls the entire time. She hadn't expected to...
Lyx - Dead Sea
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Belly Buddies, Part 2
In what would become a rare occurrence, Daph had arrived at the clinic earlier than Cora. She sat in her usual chair next to the coffee table of magazines, her hat pulled low and her jacket opened. She was slumped over, her back nearly parallel to the...
Give the Devil His Due
"_Well_sir, with our cheapest package, that still gets you more than fifty channels provided by the basic cable service and access to pay-per-view programming, along with special deals on premium services like HBO and Starz." Jessie wiggled her pen...
Like Rabbits
At late afternoon on a Wednesday, Marcus and Nick were both at home lounging on the couch in a comfortable silence. Nick was slumped against the right arm, wearing nothing but the sweatpants he taught yoga in, and only mostly focused on the video game...
Dad With Benefits: Part 1
Hoyt struggled with the shopping cart as he dragged it out of the stack and realized too late that a broken, squeaking wheel was making the job that much more difficult. Behind him, his twin children watched while simultaneously not helping. Jacob was...
The Draft
"Alright, team! Everyone up!" Lucas Harrier grumbled and rolled onto his back, feeling the weight of his belly shift against uncomfortably against his lungs. He'd already been in and out of sleep for that past few hours, but if Coach Pendergrass was...
Empty Basket
Melinda turned off the main highway onto a tiny, one-lane dirt road around two-thirty, knowing in the back of her mind she'd be on it for almost an hour. It was almost more of a foot-path cut through the forests of western Pennsylvania that just...