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“I-I… uhm…” Ken fumbles his words as fear starts to tighten its grip on his psyche. His eyes dart around at his surroundings, looking for some sort of miracle escape. “You have one minute to pick.” Jessica glances at the fancy wrist watch on her arm. Ken briefly considers the fact that that watch is worth more than he is now. He’s just a shrink. All the hungry faces looking down on him add to the pressure. “30 seconds. Tick tock Mr. Morsel.” The girls laugh at Jessica’s comment and watch Ken intently. “The suspense is great! I love dinner and a show, but I suppose in this case the dinner *is* the show!” Says Maddy. More laughs follow.
All eyes are on Ken, even his fellow shrinks stare at him intently as they know he may decide their fate. Ken started to sweat, trying to think of a way out of this nightmare of a situation.

“10 seconds~” Jessica taunts in a sing song voice. To make her point she digs her nails into one of the legs of the shrink she is holding, not enough to draw blood but enough to elicit a shriek of pain and panic. Sweating, Ken bit his lip, closed his eyes and grabbed his head with both hands in frustration and terror. The situation was hopeless. All the other shrinks were going to end up in one of these predators’ belly one way or another. It didn’t matter which given option he chose. He then remembered an old saying:

“When you’re in Hell, only the devil can help you.”

“Three… Two… On- “ Ken suddenly interrupted Jessica with a desperate scream. ”Pam you win! You made your point! Please stop this!” Tears started to form in his eyes. Not expecting him to call out to Pam, Jessica decides to see how things play out and postpone the mutilation. This turn of events could be interesting. Pam raises an eye in question. “Oh? What do you understand, little Ken?” “Oh, this will be good! You’re right Maddy, this really is dinner and a show with plot twists and everything!” chuckled Vicky. Ken was infuriated by the fact that that’s all this was to her, but this was no time to be distracted!

The fact that Pam was listening was a good sign. He knew he couldn’t appeal to her emotion for sympathy, but stroking her ego might work!
“You wanted to show me what happens to shrinks who don’t have big people for guardians and you wanted to show me how the world works, right?! I’m just a shrink. I’m not human any more and I’m defenseless without a protector. Without people like you or Mom I’m just somebodies’ meal or plaything! You’re better than me, you’re the superior being and you have all the power. I’ll do whatever you like! I promise I won’t tell Mom, please take me back! You were right about everything and I’m sorry for being a nuisance to you! I’m grateful that you have spared me up until now!” To punctuate his plea, he got on his knees in a begging position.

Pam watched in silence for a few seconds, somewhat surprised. Then a smile of superiority appeared. “That’s what I like to hear Ken. A shrink should know their place in the world, big fishies eat little fishies in nature after all. It’s the same with us. And just so you know, if you snitch on me again, I’ll eat you and hurt you before I do it. I’ll cook you in a frying pan like an egg and make sure you are alive when I swallow you. No amount of begging from you or anguish from your mother will stop me this time.”

“Are you really going to listen to him?” Jessica taunted. “He just wants to get out of being dinner. He doesn’t mean any of that.” “On the contrary, I’ve known little Ken for a while. I think he’s being truthful, so let’s call off your little game and enjoy our dinner normally. He’s my best friend’s son, she won’t forgive me if I return him to her as a shell shocked little blubbering mess with a thousand-yard stare. Let’s just leave him in the bowl for now”

Ken wanted to be out of the bowl and back with his Mom, but this was a step in the right direction. He felt bad for abandoning the others, but he knew they were doomed anyway. He may as well save himself from psychological torment, he had had enough of that for a lifetime
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Sounding a little disappointed, Jessica spoke “Well if you say so. I can always play this game at home with some other shrinks, I suppose.” Her stomach let out a wet gurgle. She looked at the shrink in her hand and licked her lips. This was all it took for the shrink to become a broken-down mess of a man again as he started sobbing. Jessica pinched him by the ankle and lifted him up above her head as he dangled upside down. Ken looked away. There was nothing he could do. She stuck out her tongue and opened wide, as tiny in perceptible tears fell from the shrinks face on to her tongue. The poor victim’s name was John. He knew he was finished. This is what happened to all shrinks sooner or later – they get eaten by someone else. He used to be a family man before catching the virus. He was snatched out in public while his wife wasn’t looking and sold as food stock. He would never see his wife or kids again.

“Ahh~” Moist, hot breath washed over the shrink. She lowered him painfully and purposefully slow allowing him to take in all the horrid organic details. Everything was covered in a shiny sheen of saliva. Even on an instinctual and biological level, her body recognized him as food, causing her to salivate more and more. Strands connected the top and bottom of her mouth like gooey stalagmite’s. and a moment later she let go and he landed on her tongue with a meaty smack. Jessica retracted her tongue and began savoring her meal. Her cheeks bulged as she overpowered the living snack with her tongue, sucking on him gently with squishy wet sounds, similar to the sound when someone chews gum with an open mouth. The sounds were tremendously loud for John, even though his ears were filled with his tormenters saliva. He continued to cry uncontrollably. Jessica could hear his cries, but it was all part of the fun for her.

She let out a satisfied “Mmm!” After extracting the flavor by violating him with her tongue she sent him down the hatch, illustrated with the telltale squirming bulge going down her neck. Her esophagus claimed him and mercilessly forced him down towards the organic torture chamber known as her stomach. He was ejected out of the sphincter into a pile of semi-solid digesting food. He dug himself out, not wanting to suffocate in the slop. Everything was churning rhythmically. The sounds around him were overwhelming. It was like he had been removed from the world entirely, and confined to this one. The outside world may as well not exist to him anymore.

She patted her stomach, causing him to fall back into the pile of mushy food which also contained expired shrinks in various states of digestion. As if it was to taunt the man in her stomach one last time. It was if she was saying “You belong to me now. You’re not getting out.” His ears felt a small pressure change as she left out of silent burp. He didn’t bother getting up as he laid down in the hot mush on his back.

He had been eaten. He was food.

Meanwhile, as Ken looked down, another shrink in the bowl was making plans. She was named Amanda. Standing tall at a (relative) 6’ 5”, she was Amazonian in stature, her muscles in naked display to the world. She was a US marine before she shrank. A veteran with a trained mind to analyze every situation and consider every option, never breaking under stress. To her surprise, Ken, a mere shrink like herself had some value to the woman named Pam. This meant he could be a bargaining chip.

“You look appetizing!” A voice interrupted her thoughts. “All those muscles, you must be full of protein and nutrients. I bet you’ll tickle the inside of my stomach for hours!” Her heart sank. Becca, one of the predatory women was looking right at her. Without further ado, she began to reach for Amanda, she was practically drooling over her. It was maddening to have her lifetime of training and discipline reduced to protein for some complete stranger, but now was not the time for ego. She sprung into action and ran a short distance towards Ken, grabbing him from behind in a choke hold.

“Everybody freeze or I’ll break this one’s neck! I’m an ex-marine!” Ken was shocked. He was on the precipice of salvation, only to be threatened by a fellow shrink. He struggled but Ken was not in the best of shape strength wise, not that it would have mattered. The hold was executed perfectly and could only be escaped by a veteran, which Ken was not. Amanda felt bad for Ken, but desperate times call for desperate measures. She wondered if she really had it in her to do it. Everyone was silent. Vicky broke out in laughter. “Oh this dinner just keep getting better and better!” she slow clapped mockingly, clearly entertained.

“Pam, let us go or your best friend will lose her son. You wouldn’t want that would you? Take this bowl somewhere safe, away from here and set us all free. Then you can have Ken back!” Pam was furious. This little shrink, her dinner, had the gall to try and put her in a corner in front of others? Her ego was wounded. Pam responded “Listen you little piece of meat. Here’s what’s going to happen: You’re going to let go of Ken, then I’ll let you go free. Otherwise, I’ll make you experience a living hell so bad you will beg me to eat you. You’d be surprised how much a little shrink like you can survive before dying.” “Wow Pam, are you really negotiating with your food?” Maddy snickered. “Just eat them both. Ken’s mom will get over it” commented Jessica..

“You’ll just eat us if I let him go. Agree to my terms or he dies!” Yelled Amanda. Ken couldn’t believe what came out of his mouth. “Pam please save me! Please, I’ll be good! My mother would be heartbroken if I died!” He had checked his dignity at the door a long time ago. He wasn’t above more begging. The other shrinks started to become hopeful for freedom and watched on. Pam grimaced and briefly broke eye-contact with her meal-to-be. She turned back and said…
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June 3, 2023