{"id":1188,"date":"2025-04-07T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:11:10","slug":"shady-job-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/en\/archives\/1188","title":{"rendered":"Shady Job (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Haa\u2026 haa\u2026 haa\u2026 haa\u2026”
“You’re starting to look real good now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u3010Job Listing\u3011
Short-Term Gig (1 Week)
Payment: $1,000 USD
Transport goods overseas by plane.
No qualifications needed, come as you are!
(We\u2019ll cover travel expenses and passport arrangements.)
This is a popular job\u2014first come, first served!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For someone like me\u2014poor, with no special talents\u2014it looked like salvation.
Shuko, shuko, shuko, shuko\u2026
\u201cHaaah, uuugh, uuuuuh!!\u201d
As the man worked the pump, a balloon began to inflate inside my stomach.
I-it hurts\u2026 s-stop\u2026 please\u2026!
Pressed by the balloon, my stomach swelled unnaturally.
My organs were crushed from within, my intestines twisting under the pressure.
It hurts.
It\u2019s unbearable.
Someone\u2026 help me\u2026
\u201cHey, bring the stuff.\u201d
\u201cOn it.\u201d
A young man brought in a bunch of white packages wrapped in plastic.
Pshhh!!!
The man removed the pump, and a loud hiss escaped the tube.
\u2014shuuuuu\u2026
But he quickly clamped the tube shut with his hand.
My stomach remained swollen.
My body trembled, and sweat dripped from my forehead in heavy drops.
The man picked up one of the white packages.
\u201cUgh\u2026!? Uuuuugh!!\u201d
Without hesitation, he began pushing the package into the tube.
The tube, made of soft material, swallowed the slightly large package without resistance.
Its end led directly into the balloon inside my stomach.
With a dull thump, the heavy parcel dropped into my stomach one by one.
\u201cGuhh!! Uuuuuuh!!\u201d
Blorp\u2014my belly pushed outward even more.
The ballooned stomach, now filled with hard foreign objects, ached with sharp pain.
I\u2014I can\u2019t take this anymore\u2026!!
But the table still held more than half of the packages.
\u201cRelax your body. Your stomach\u2019ll burst.\u201d
\u201cHh\u2026!? Ugh\u2026!!\u201d
My instincts screamed not to move recklessly.
Arching my back like a bow and pushing my stomach out, I could breathe a little easier.
“Good. Keep cooperating like that.”
With those words, the man continued feeding the packages into the tube.
My stomach grew a little heavier again.
Slap! Slap!<\/em>
The man smacked my swollen belly with his open hand.
Stuffed with packages, my stomach barely made a sound.
Schlurpp… schluuurp… pop!<\/em>
The man pulled the hose out from my mouth.
\u201cGah\u2014cough!! Haaagh!! I\u2014it hurts…!!\u201d
A lingering foreign sensation deep in my throat.
With my stomach stretched full of packages, I could hardly breathe.
\u201cThis balloon creates a shadow on X-rays that looks like a fetus. That\u2019s why it passes security.\u201d
\u201cH-huh…?\u201d
I didn\u2019t understand what he meant.
There were still more white packages on the table.
The young man from earlier was busily stuffing them into a long, thin brown tube.
Schlurp!
The hose slid out from deep in my throat.
\u201cUgh!?\u201d
Then, without pause, a long tube was inserted into my rear.
As it snaked through the curves of my intestines, it bumped and scraped along the way, forcing more foreign objects inside.
Once everything was in, the man attached a small air canister to the end.
N-no way\u2026!!
Nooo!!
SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
\u201cAaaaghhhhhh!?\u201d
The tube expanded inside my intestines.
The internal pressure spiked, and my belly surged outward with a heavy, swelling force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cUrgh… guh…!!\u201d
I couldn\u2019t breathe.
Something surged up from deep in my throat, but it wouldn\u2019t come out.
The man detached the air canister and picked up the long, thin brown tube.
Schlk\u2026 grrk grrk\u2026
\u201cHii\u2026 aaagh, aaghaaa!!\u201d
The brown tube was slowly pushed into the hose.
I tensed my abdomen, trying desperately to resist.
Shlunk!!!
\u201cGya\u2014! Hicck!!\u201d
The tip of the brown tube slipped easily into my body.
It passed through my rectum and began snaking its way into my colon.
I could feel it slithering inside, the tube’s outline grotesquely writhing beneath the surface of my belly.
Grnk\u2026 grnk, grrk\u2026
The brown tube ground its way forward\u2014until it snagged on a bend in my intestine.
The man didn\u2019t hesitate. He shoved it in with brute force.
\u201cDo something\u2014it’s going to rip your colon open!\u201d
\u201cHii!? Augh\u2026 uuuuuh!!\u201d
I clutched my stomach with both hands, twisting my body in desperation.
My belly pushed upward even more.
If I let go now, my body would burst, and everything inside me would come spilling out.
Schlurp\u2014schlurrrp!!<\/em>
\u201cUgh!? GAAAAAHHH!!\u201d
\u201cAlright, it\u2019s all in now.\u201d
\u201cH-hah… hhyuh… haaah, haaah…\u201d
M-my insides…
I-it\u2019s going to… burst… t-tear me apart…
“You\u2019ll get used to it. A woman\u2019s body stretches\u2014it\u2019s made to bear children.”
As he said that, the man gently stroked my swollen stomach.
\u201cPut this on.\u201d
It was a loose-fitting pink dress\u2014clearly maternity wear.
\u201cFrom now on, you\u2019re going to pose as a pregnant woman and board the plane.\u201d
\u201c\u2026W-what\u2026?\u201d
He held out a passport and a plane ticket.
The passport had my photo\u2014but someone else\u2019s name.
\u201cThat stuff in you\u2014it’s worth more than your life.\u201d
\u201c\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d
\u201cYour job is to deliver it here.\u201d
He handed me a smartphone.
A map app was open, and a red pin marked the destination.
\u201cIt matters. That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying it again.\u201d
Thud!!
\u201cGuhh\u2014ughk!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t care if your belly bursts. You will deliver that cargo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Haa\u2026 haa\u2026 haa\u2026 haa\u2026”“You’re starting to look real good now.” \u3010Job Listing\u3011Short-Term Gig (1 Week)Payment: $1,000 USDTransport goods overseas by plane.No qualifications needed, come as you are!(We\u2019ll cover travel expenses and passport arrangements.)This is a popular job\u2014first come, first served! For someone like me\u2014poor, with no special talents\u2014it looked like salvation.Shuko, shuko, shuko, shuko\u2026\u201cHaaah, uuugh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/?p=1178","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-r-18g","category-novel","category-picture","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.40pbb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}