Stories tagged “fat”
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elpoep taf
“Fat people are hard to kidnap. It’s much easier to shoot the bastards.” Those were his last words. My father had been a great man, he taught me everything about the business, which I had since inherited. I would hear those words once...
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Ancient Bondage and Empty Threats
“When I open the last of my seventh mouths, that’s when you will witness the end of the world.” The speaker was an obese blond man, bespectacled and loud. Fat rolled where it didn’t hang, and gravity pulled his bulk downward. If...
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Stego the Dino
The Dino was after him – about to catch up! He had to keep going, faster, further… So he ran as far as he could; Which wasn’t very far since Stego was on a treadmill in the local gym, just round the corner from his home. You see Steg...
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Obra Maestra
Hope. With a crisp image in his mind of how the final figure would look, the sculptor inspected his block of stone. He lifted the chisel and took weary stab at it. A quiet clank resonated through the space as the sculptor set the chisel back down on th...
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Walking Skeleton
She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes glanced at the distorted image that reflected back at her. The girl’s cheeks were sunken in, and she was paler than most teenagers her age. Alyssa swallowed and let her eyes trail down to her torso. H...
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Appearances
I’m jolted from sleep by the painfully intrusive sound of the alarm clock. My heart sinks with the acknowledgement of being brought back to reality. My hand immediately goes to my stomach, and I feel its distention from the sweets eaten last nigh...