Written By: Jaryd Porter
…Dynasty smacked her lips, burped, and sucked grease from her acrylics. Her belly poured across the floor and almost to the opposite wall. Quick, pitiful wheezes sounded from her, matching the wheezing and squelching noise from the CRT TV. Mountains of food trash piled up around her obese belly. Your food is on the way, her delivery app assured her. Dynasty squealed.
“Omigod, finally!”
The TV emitted harsh, colorful light in an otherwise dark room. She couldn’t even see the screen past her gut, but it rose up in the darkness so she could watch. The screen hovered closer to her. Shoveling down pizza and fries, she looked up long enough to see herself on-screen.
Sweating through her tube top, overflowing a flattened couch, she waved at an unseen camera.
“Omigod! I’m on TV!”
The front door swung open. “Is it, like, a dating show?” The figures pushed and scrambled through the trash and clamoring up her fleshy belly. “Boys! There’s enough of me to–”
A pair of the skeletal, feral men bit into her face, tearing her cheeks and lips. The others burrowed into her belly, tunneling gorily through her. Too fat to move, she squealed and flailed.
Dead in seconds.
In a flash, Dynasty gasped. She was alive. Before she could think about her dream, her smorgasbord distracted her. She blissfully gorged as her TV watched her for another loop. With a body and legs of coiled wire and silicon, the buzzing screen crouched low, displaying Dynasty’s enormity in its pixels. Re-runs or not, the entity would feast on her fear for aeons.
“More food!” She demanded and announced, at once. Dynasty smacked her lips, burped, and sucked grease from her acrylics…
Jaryd Porter is a writer from Lawrence, Kansas who writes about identity, perception, and intersectionality. His previously published works include “Hell Enough” at The Core Review, “Brother From Another” at Your Impossible Voice, “Obama Black” at Fleas on the Dog and Fiction on the Web, “That Sinking Feeling” at JAKE, and “Dance of Hours” at Feign. His story "Oncoming" appeared in Issue 2 of Slash Magazine.
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