I don't know if people will be turned off by a story with unbirth in it, but I figured there was enough pregnancy content here to satisfy.
Jessie let out an annoyed groan as she stepped away from the cupboard and looked down at oldest daughter who kept tugging on her shorts. “Kelli-Anne, what is it?”
“Grandma’s stuck again,” Kelli-Anne said, looking up at Jessie.
“Then go help’er out,” Jessie replied, rolling her eyes. “I’m fixing lunch for you and your sisters.”
“I’m too little,” Kelli-Anne said. “And she’s so big.”
Jessie groaned. “Fine, fine.” She walked to the back of the trailer and put her hands on her hips as her mother stood in the doorway to her room, pregnant belly stuck in the frame. “Hear you need a hand, momma.”
“That’d be nice,” Jessie’s mother, Annabelle, said, reaching one hand to her own oldest daughter. With a grunt and a tug, Annabelle got through the doorway and was pinning Jessie against the trailer’s wall with her belly. “Sorry ‘bout that.”
“Wouldn’t be the first time I had a pregnant belly get in my way,” Jessie chuckled and saw Kelli-Anne giving her an odd look. “I didn’t mean it like that, Kelli-Anne. Always happy to have you in my life.”
Annabelle adjusted her t-shirt and stroked her bare belly as she waddled to the kitchen area of the trailer, patting Kelli-Anne on the head. “Your momma making you lunch, dear?”
Jessie’s daughter nodded as Jessie walked up and put a hand on her mother’s shoulder. “Don’t make her anything, momma. I don’t want her to get used to you spoiling her. Besides, you can’t even get out of your bedroom. How are you going to make us all lunch?”
“I’m just not used to carrying twins,” Annabelle pouted as she waddled to the door and out into the rest of the trailer park. “When Kelli-Anne was a little baby in your tummy, you bumped into everything. Give me some credit.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Jessie chuckled, finishing up the sandwiches for her kids. She handed one to Kelli-Anne and walked out into the yard, calling for her other children to come in from playing with the other kids in the trailer park. “Miranda’s got Laura?”
“Right,” Annabelle nodded, smiling to her grandchildren as they hurried into the trailer. Jessie walked to one of her neighbor’s, opening the door to hear the sound of babies laughing.
“Lunchtime?” Miranda said, crouching on the ground as she watched her own infant son and Jessie’s infant daughter Laura play on the ground with blocks and other toys. Miranda slowly got to her feet, groaning as one hand clutched her large pregnant middle.
“Miranda, let me help,” Jessie said, putting an arm around her expectant friend and easing her to her feet. “Why do you get down so far with your belly so far along? I would have been stuck down on the floor for ages if I ever tried that with my babies.”
Miranda shrugged and smiled, continuing to rub her belly. Unlike Annabelle, Miranda wore a maternity blouse that concealed her stomach. “Someone would have come and get you, Jessie. You’re like a mayor to us.”
“Oh, hush,” Jessie smiled, “You’re older than me and you’ve only got one baby. I’d say you’re the wiser one.”
“Number of babies doesn’t mean anything,” Miranda said. “Besides, of course you’ve got so many kids. You come from a big family and you’re gorgeous.”
The Linkervine Trailer Park wasn’t wanting for attractive women, but Jessie was largely considered the park’s beauty. She had smooth skin, tanned from spending so much time outside, with big coral lips. Her brown hair was tied behind in a long ponytail and her yellow flannel shirt hid just how bosomy she was. And during the spring, she wore her denim shorts that revealed lots of firm, shapely leg.
“You’re a cutie yourself,” Jessie smiled, placing a hand on Miranda’s belly. “You’re glowing, after all.” Miranda had curly black hair, a large beauty mark next to her lips, and although she wasn’t as thin as Jessie, she was more muscle than fat, even while she was pregnant.
“Reminds me, tell Annabelle hi,” Miranda smiled as Jessie picked up her daughter. “Mind getting Cole for me? You don’t want me to bend down, after all.”
Jessie moved Miranda’s son to a more manageable location and took her infant daughter back to her trailer, feeding her a mushed up meal in place of the sandwich.
Jessie was Annabelle’s oldest daughter and had her when she was 16. Annabelle continued to have children for most of her life, with a sizeable gap between her youngest and the twins in her womb right now. Annabelle was still married and owed each of her children to her husband, but he was rarely home. The last time Annabelle saw her husband, he put the twins inside her.
Which worked fine for Annabelle. Her affection for him wore off quickly and she stayed married as a convenience and because she thought two parents would make raising their growing family easier. But as his absences informed her, she was more than capable of raising her children alone.
Following after her mother, Jessie got pregnant with Kelli-Anne at 16 as well. But unlike Annabelle, Jessie didn’t stay with her daughter’s father, who ended up moving soon after Jessie told him the news. The same was true of Jessie’s last three children, each with different fathers. But Jessie was, as her mother described her, a bright girl and was able to get work that fit her schedule and years of helping raise her younger brothers and sisters made motherhood much easier for her.
That “brightness” was recognized by the rest of the trailer park’s residents, who consulted Jessie on most issues of consequence and were never disappointed with the results. At least, the female residents of the park consulted her. The husbands, boyfriends, and other men didn’t think much of Jessie and thought she was only good for making babies. And since none of her babies were boys, how good was she really?
There was a knock on the trailer door and Jessie opened the door, seeing one of her other neighbors standing there. “Eva? What’s up?”
Eva was the same age as Annabelle but didn’t have nearly as many children. Eva had twins in her late teens and they now lived with her alone in the trailer. Like their mother, Eva’s daughters Maria and Margaret were tall, athletic girls with shoulder-length almond hair and long bangs.
“Jessie, there’s some men in suits nosing around near the park’s entrance. I thought you’d better find out what they want,” Eva said, arms crossed as she turned to her left.
Jessie stepped out of the trailer and saw three men in suits. Two were taller and carried briefcases while the third, walking ahead of them, smiled and waved at Jessie, picking up his pace to meet her. “Hello there. My name is Jared and I’m from CMC Pharmaceutical. Do you mind if I have a quick word with you.”
Eva looked between Jessie and Jared nervously before backing away and heading to her own trailer. Jessie crossed her arms, leery about businessmen from the city coming to prey on the poorer residents of the trailer park, especially during the day when most of the men were gone. “And what would you like to talk about?”
“It’s not a short story, so I’d really rather talk inside, sitting down, if that’s alright,” Jared said, his smile persisting. “But to be brief, we’re looking for some people to enter into a risk-free trial and we can pay substantially up front for your participation.”
As Jessie started to open her mouth, Annabelle tapped her on the shoulder. “Don’t turn them away now. Money’s money, little girl.”
Jessie sighed. She had to agree. “Come on in,” she said, holding the door for Jared.
“Thank you,” he beamed, gesturing for his accomplices to stay outside. Kelli-Anne moved into the room she shared with her mother as Jared sat down across from Jessie. “Now what I’m working on right now is a new fertility drug.”
“Fertility drug?” Jessie said, holding Laura in her lap. “You mean for ladies who can’t get pregnant.”
“Exactly right, miss…”
“Just call me Jessie,” she said. “So, you were saying?”
“Right, well, we’re very close to a new product that we believe will be very effective. But what we need is a brief test to see where we need to set levels,” Jared said. “It’s a lot of scientific jargon I don’t think you’d understand.”
Jessie sighed softly, all too familiar with men from the city looking down on her intelligence. “And you want me as a test subject? No offense, sir, but I don’t need your drug to get pregnant, even if I wanted to be.”
Jared laughed at this, covering his mouth with his hand. “No, that’s why I wanted to talk with you. We need to test this on women who already have high fertility levels. From there, we’ll know how to proceed.” He removed his hand, his smile still wide and devilish. “Tell me, Jessie, how many children have you had?”
Jessie crossed her arms and cleared her throat. “Four babies in the last four years.”
“So you can see what I mean: high fertility levels. Women in, forgive me, these more rural areas tend to be more fertile and the Linkervine Trailer Park just happened to be the first one we stopped at,” he said. “And likely the last. There are a lot of women here.”
“You said you’ll pay?” Jessie said, on the verge of kicking this disrespectful man out of her home.
“$10,000 up front,” Jared said, taking out a corporate checkbook. “And another $15,000 when we come back in a week to get the results.”
Annabelle gasped and both Jessie and Jared turned to look at her. “Sorry, just a hard kick,” she smiled, trying to cover up her shock at the amount of money being offered.
“You’re eligible for the drug as well, miss,” Jared said to Annabelle. “It won’t interfere with your pregnancy or damage your fetuses.”
Jessie gulped. That meant, total, they would have $50,000 between them. She may not like this man, but she couldn’t ethically give up a chance at that much money. “I’ll do it,” she said.
“Me too,” Annabelle said with much more enthusiasm.
“Excellent,” Jared grinned, handing both women a deceptively short contract to sign. Once they signed, he put a bottle of pills on the table. “I need to see you both take one, please.”
Jessie and Annabelle both filled up a glass of water and swallowed the pill. Annabelle rubbed her belly as she felt the cool water slide down her esophagus and felt her twins kicking. “Oof, they’re active now.”
“I’ll have to make a note of that side effect,” Jared chuckled as he wrote the mother and daughter a check for $10,000 each. “I’ll see you both in a week. Thank you and have a great day!”
Jared left the trailer and scoffed to the two men with briefcases. “Easy. Wave a little money in front of these rednecks and they’ll do anything.”
“And they don’t even know how much money we stand to make with this drug,” one of the other men chuckled.
“Millions,” Jared smiled. “We should be paying these women more than quadruple for what they’re contributing to this product.”
The representatives from CMC Pharmaceutical ended up getting every woman of age in the trailer park to take the pill and sign up for the study. Back in Jessie’s trailer, she was sitting beside her mother, running her hands over Annabelle’s belly. “Shame Crystal wasn’t here. We could have made even more,” Annabelle said.
“Do you want her to get pregnant too?” Jessie chuckled. “And with some baby pill inside her, she’d blow up like a house.”
“She’s held off longer than either of us,” Annabelle sighed. Crystal was Annabelle’s third child and second daughter, currently a senior in high school. “Think this’ll make us extra-big when we get pregnant again?”
“You mean ‘if,’ don’t you?” Jessie said, patting her mother’s belly. “I’m not planning on having any more babies for a long time.”
“I have a feeling these two aren’t my last,” Annabelle said, looking down at her large, bare stomach. “And you know, I’ve always…enjoyed being pregnant.” Annabelle started to blush and bit her lip. “I’m not much of a role model, am I?”
“Momma, hush,” Jessie sighed, putting one arm around Annabelle’s shoulder and holding her close. “You’re a great lady and I couldn’t have asked for a better momma. And if you want to be a momma to more little brothers and sister of mine, that’s fine with me.”
Meanwhile, Crystal was sitting in her high school biology class as the teacher explained the upcoming assignment. “You’ll each be paired up with another student and will need to give a presentation on a particular system in the human body,” he said, rattling off the groups and assignments. “Joshua and Crystal. You’ve got the female reproductive system.”
Joshua gulped, turning to look at Crystal a few rows from his desk. Like her sister, Crystal stood out as the most beautiful girl in the school and they looked mostly the same, except Crystal ombréd her hair and dressed less revealingly at school than Jessie did at the trailer park. By contrast, Joshua was a nerd who didn’t have the benefit of being part of the “nerd clique.”
The class rearranged itself as they worked on their projects as Crystal sat beside Joshua. “So, any ideas on what you’d want to do?” Crystal asked, crossing her arms and leaning on her desk.
“Maybe some diagrams in a PowerPoint?” Joshua said.
Crystal gave a light grunt of agreement, nodding and looking absent-mindedly at the assignment sheet in front of them.
“I mean, does that sound good to you?” Joshua asked. “Do you have anything in mind you’d like to try?”
Crystal broke her head up and scratched her cheek gently. “Why are you asking me? Aren’t you the smart kid in class? Whatever you want is fine.”
“No, I’m hardly the best student,” Joshua said with a little laugh. “You wouldn’t say that if you saw my test scores. Maybe I just fake it. ‘Don’t mistake composure for ease.’” He turned and saw Crystal look at him with an odd look. “T-that’s a line from Star Trek.”
“Okay,” Crystal said with a smile, giving a little laugh.
“But seriously, your ideas are as good as mine,” Joshua said as the bell rang. “Um, let’s figure out a time to meet next class?”
“Sure,” Crystal said, maintaining her smile as she stood up and walked back to her desk. Joshua let out a long sigh, his heart pounding from just talking to the school’s top beauty.
Back at the trailer park, Crystal walked into her home, now cramped as the rest of Annabelle’s children returned from school. “Anything exciting happen?”
“Same ‘ol, same ‘ol,” Jessie sighed, working in the mobile home’s kitchen, trying not to bump into her mother’s belly. “Momma, would you sit down and rest? You’re close to your due date, after all.”
“Fine, Crystal,” Annabelle sighed, rubbing her belly and waddling to the living space of the trailer. “Go help your sister make supper.”
Crystal switched out with her pregnant mother and started getting out spices, noticing the pill bottle in the corner of the counter. “What are these?”
“Some businessman paid momma and I to test out some drug for him,” Jessie said, not looking as Crystal opened the bottle. “He said they won’t do anything, but he’ll have to come back in a week to check. Too bad you weren’t here. You could have made some money.”
“Yeah, too bad,” Crystal said as she swallowed one of the pills and grinned at her shocked sister.
“Crystal, what are you doin’ taking mystery pills like that?” Jessie said, snatching the bottle away.
“I don’t like being left out,” Crystal giggled. “Besides, it says they’re just fertility pills and I doubt they’ll do anything to someone in our family.”
“Can I take one too?” Kallie, Annabelle’s middle child, asked, peeking into the kitchen.
“No, let’s try and keep anyone else from trying these,” Jessie sighed, shoving the bottle into her pocket. “And let’s hope nothing happens.”
Four days later, Crystal and Joshua were both working in the school’s library, looking at Joshua’s laptop screen. “These diagrams are really well done,” Joshua said with a smile, scrolling through.
“You sure?” Crystal said. “I mean, I didn’t know if this was what the teacher was looking for.”
“It’s a little out of the box, but that’s what makes these so good,” Joshua said, turning to Crystal. He thought by now, he’d no longer tremble every time he looked at her, but over the past days, her skin started looking more radiant and her chest seemed larger. “Your ideas are excellent.”
Crystal rolled her eyes and sighed. “Thanks.”
“Sorry, am I being too gushy?” Joshua asked.
“No, I’m just…” Crystal sighed. “Not used to people asking me for my ideas, especially about school stuff.”
Joshua looked around. They were in a secluded part of the library and it was already after school. “Do people not like your contributions?”
She shrugged. “Some people don’t expect much from me. Teachers, neighbors, Scott.” Scott was Crystal’s boyfriend and captain of the school’s lacrosse team.
Joshua paused for a second, thinking over his words. “If he doesn’t respect your ideas, why do you stay with him.”
Crystal laughed out loud and smiled at Joshua, letting out a long sigh. “Joshua, you’re a great guy and you’re smart, but there are some things you just don’t understand.”
Joshua laughed uncomfortably and decided to move on. He scrolled through their presentation and jumped when Crystal prodded him in the side with her finger. “W-what?”
“Why do you get so tense every time our slides show a pregnant woman?” Crystal said with a little smile.
“I-I’m not,” Joshua said, blushing. Crystal’s smile only grew.
“Just between us, I swear,” she whispered, leaning in. “Do you have, you know, a thing for pregnant women?”
Joshua looked around again and gave a small nod. Crystal grinned and giggled.
“Secret’s safe with me. Just remind me not to take you home around my momma and sister.” Crystal’s eyelids lowered as she stroked her chin. “Actually, maybe I should. I think they’d like you. You’re a goof, but you’re nice.”
“T-thanks,” Joshua gulped. “I think.”
Back at the trailer park, Jessie was humming to herself as she walked around the outside, cleaning up toys while Annabelle waddled around, trying to stay in shape as best she could.
“Late day at school?” Annabelle panted, her face red from moving around so much with her heaviest pregnant brood yet.
“Sort of. Working on a project,” Crystal said, putting her bike in the trailer’s crawl space and locking the door. “Jessie, you’re in a good mood.”
“I sure am,” Jessie smirked. “I got in touch with all the other women in the trailer park. Everything’s set.”
“Really?” Crystal smiled, turning to Annabelle. “And momma, what about you?”
“Like your sister said, we’ve got it all worked out,” Annabelle smiled, rubbing her hand across her bare belly. “Now, come inside. We kept some supper warm for you.”
“I’m okay,” Crystal said. “I had something to eat with a…friend before I got back.”
Jared couldn’t stop laughing to himself as he pulled his car past the Linkervine Trailer Park. “Time to collect our millions from these white trash women.”
“All they’ll do is spend their $15,000 on more babies they’ll squeeze out,” one of his associates chuckled in the passenger seat.
His comment made Jared realize something was a little different about the trailer park this time. Before, there were grubby little kids everywhere. This time, it was totally empty.
As Jared parked and looked around, he saw his first person: a woman in a rolled up t-shirt with a truly massive pregnant belly. It was like she swallowed two over-inflated yoga balls. The woman was rubbing her round stomach before she turned and smiled, waving to the three pharmaceutical representatives.
“She’s colossal,” one of the suitcase-carrying men murmured.
“They couldn’t help themselves getting knocked up before we got back,” Jared grinned. “And look how pregnant this one is. This drug is even more successful than I imagined.”
“Oh, Mr. Jared,” Jessie said, calling through the open door of her trailer. “Please, come in.”
Jared tried to tone down his glee and walked into the mobile home, his smile growing again when he saw the size of Jessie’s belly. She could barely turn without her pregnant tummy hitting the walls of the trailer and she struggled to move with an appropriate gait toward the man from the pharmaceutical company.
“I see our drug had an effect,” he said. “You can see, it wasn’t a placebo. Sorry, let me explain. A placebo is-”
“I know what a placebo is, sir,” Jessie smirked, crossing her arms against her breasts, which like her belly, had considerably grown since Jared last saw her. “And your pills worked, just not the way I think you intended.”
“Oh?” Jared smiled, not sure what this woman was getting at.
“But first, my $15,000, please.”
“Sure thing,” Jared said, taking out his corporate checkbook and writing Jessie a check for the agreed sum. “Now, let me just do a quick test and-”
“No, let me just tell you what your pills did,” Jessie smiled, putting one hand on Jared’s shoulder and pushing him toward the door, leaving his checkbook on the table. Outside, the trailer park’s female population was standing in front of Jessie’s trailer, hands on their enormous bellies, all of varying size. But the smallest could well be described as “beach ball ready to pop.”
“What, you’re all upset you got so pregnant?” Jared scoffed. “Check your contracts. CMC Pharmaceuticals paid you for your participation and you don’t get to sue for any effects of the drug.” The women all started to laugh softly and Jared’s smile went away. “Hey…where are my men?”
“In here,” Maria and Margaret said in unison, waddling up and rubbing their bellies. Each one was so large, their arms would need to be three times as long just to reach the front, let along their popped-out pierced navels. Their pants were both down and their thighs were wet with sticky amniotic fluid. “But it’s uncomfortable to have them in there fully dressed. We’ll have to find a way to filter out the clothes.”
“Britney was able to do that with her husband, so you’ll get them out soon,” Jessie smiled to her neighbors.
“What the hell is going on?” Jared barked at Jessie.
“I don’t know if it was the pill itself or if we ‘rural’ women are just already too fertile, but seems it made us able to ‘unbirth’ others,” Jessie said, walking down the steps of her trailer, stroking her enormous belly, which moved and throbbed under her fingers.
“For those of us with husbands or boyfriends we’re frustrated with, it makes things much easier,” one woman smiled, patting her large maternal bulge. “Though I don’t think there are any men left in the park that aren’t in someone’s tummy now.”
“Same with kids,” the first woman Jared saw at the trailer park said, pressing her hands into the small of her back, accentuating her size. “It’s a lot easier to keep track of them if they’re just squirming around in here.”
Jared gulped and saw the women closing in on him. “A-and those of you who were already knocked up.”
Jessie sighed and looked down at her belly, wrapping her arms around her mighty middle. “I thought I’d give momma some time off of her feet by letting her relax in here. She can’t exactly carry my little sister inside her with two babies growing in her, can she?”
The impression of a pregnant belly on the side of Jessie’s smooth, swollen stomach put an exclamation point on her statement. Jared backed up until he bumped into Eva. “Don’t go just yet, sir. As a scientist, don’t you want to see for yourself?”
“But if you get rid of me,” Jared gulped, a nervous grin growing on his lips. “The rest of you won’t get your money.”
Jessie held up the CMC Pharmaceutical checkbook and Jared’s smile vanished. “It’s in our contracts that we agreed to get paid, remember? And your signature doesn’t look that hard to recreate.”
“Alright, enough talking,” Eva smiled, dropping her sweatpants while her big-bellied twin daughters grabbed Jared to hold him steady. “I haven’t had something kicking around in my womb for a long time and I’m looking forward to it.”
Jared’s yells of protest were muffled as Maria and Margaret shoved him inside their mother, her belly growing bit by bit until, once Jared had completely vanished inside her birth canal, it swelled in one big spurt to a size so big, a bystander would think she was overdue with octuplets.
“Good, I was tired to looking at him, with his smug smile,” Jessie sighed, stroking her belly. “Well done, ladies.”
“Did I miss it?” Crystal said as she rode up to her mobile home on her bike. Joshua followed behind her, nearly falling off of his ride when he saw the fantastically pregnant women standing in the park.
“Just the tail end,” Jessie said, waddling over to her sister. “Who’s this?”
“I-I’m Joshua,” he said, reaching out a shaky hand to Jessie before Crystal wrapped an arm around his waist.
“He’s a good friend of mine,” Crystal smiled. “And we just got a fantastic grade on a project. Thanks to him, my class average is saved.”
“N-no, you did a lot of work yourself,” Joshua said with a bashful smile as Crystal held him close. “We wouldn’t have gotten as good a grade if it wasn’t for you.”
“So to thank him and to celebrate, I thought I’d take him to see all of you,” Crystal said, turning to Joshua. “What do you think?”
“I-I think you made the right call,” Joshua said, laughing nervously. But his laugh was cut off when Crystal kissed him on the cheek. “Oh…um…”
“Don’t be so shy,” Crystal said, taking one of his hands and walking Joshua to the door of her mobile home. “C’mon, let’s go inside.”
Once in, Joshua and Crystal were on her futon quickly, kissing and fondling one another. “S-so, your whole trailer park is pregnant.”
“Not exactly,” Crystal said, her breath hot and heavy. “And you’ll get to meet them all soon, but for now, I just want to join in with them.”
“J-join in with them?” Joshua said as Crystal started dropping her skirt and underwear. “C-Crystal? Aren’t we moving a little fast?”
“Maybe, but these are special circumstances,” she smiled. “Now, no questions: take off as much clothing as you want and go inside me,” she said, pointing to her naked sex. “Head first, please.”
Jessie let out an annoyed groan as she stepped away from the cupboard and looked down at oldest daughter who kept tugging on her shorts. “Kelli-Anne, what is it?”
“Grandma’s stuck again,” Kelli-Anne said, looking up at Jessie.
“Then go help’er out,” Jessie replied, rolling her eyes. “I’m fixing lunch for you and your sisters.”
“I’m too little,” Kelli-Anne said. “And she’s so big.”
Jessie groaned. “Fine, fine.” She walked to the back of the trailer and put her hands on her hips as her mother stood in the doorway to her room, pregnant belly stuck in the frame. “Hear you need a hand, momma.”
“That’d be nice,” Jessie’s mother, Annabelle, said, reaching one hand to her own oldest daughter. With a grunt and a tug, Annabelle got through the doorway and was pinning Jessie against the trailer’s wall with her belly. “Sorry ‘bout that.”
“Wouldn’t be the first time I had a pregnant belly get in my way,” Jessie chuckled and saw Kelli-Anne giving her an odd look. “I didn’t mean it like that, Kelli-Anne. Always happy to have you in my life.”
Annabelle adjusted her t-shirt and stroked her bare belly as she waddled to the kitchen area of the trailer, patting Kelli-Anne on the head. “Your momma making you lunch, dear?”
Jessie’s daughter nodded as Jessie walked up and put a hand on her mother’s shoulder. “Don’t make her anything, momma. I don’t want her to get used to you spoiling her. Besides, you can’t even get out of your bedroom. How are you going to make us all lunch?”
“I’m just not used to carrying twins,” Annabelle pouted as she waddled to the door and out into the rest of the trailer park. “When Kelli-Anne was a little baby in your tummy, you bumped into everything. Give me some credit.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Jessie chuckled, finishing up the sandwiches for her kids. She handed one to Kelli-Anne and walked out into the yard, calling for her other children to come in from playing with the other kids in the trailer park. “Miranda’s got Laura?”
“Right,” Annabelle nodded, smiling to her grandchildren as they hurried into the trailer. Jessie walked to one of her neighbor’s, opening the door to hear the sound of babies laughing.
“Lunchtime?” Miranda said, crouching on the ground as she watched her own infant son and Jessie’s infant daughter Laura play on the ground with blocks and other toys. Miranda slowly got to her feet, groaning as one hand clutched her large pregnant middle.
“Miranda, let me help,” Jessie said, putting an arm around her expectant friend and easing her to her feet. “Why do you get down so far with your belly so far along? I would have been stuck down on the floor for ages if I ever tried that with my babies.”
Miranda shrugged and smiled, continuing to rub her belly. Unlike Annabelle, Miranda wore a maternity blouse that concealed her stomach. “Someone would have come and get you, Jessie. You’re like a mayor to us.”
“Oh, hush,” Jessie smiled, “You’re older than me and you’ve only got one baby. I’d say you’re the wiser one.”
“Number of babies doesn’t mean anything,” Miranda said. “Besides, of course you’ve got so many kids. You come from a big family and you’re gorgeous.”
The Linkervine Trailer Park wasn’t wanting for attractive women, but Jessie was largely considered the park’s beauty. She had smooth skin, tanned from spending so much time outside, with big coral lips. Her brown hair was tied behind in a long ponytail and her yellow flannel shirt hid just how bosomy she was. And during the spring, she wore her denim shorts that revealed lots of firm, shapely leg.
“You’re a cutie yourself,” Jessie smiled, placing a hand on Miranda’s belly. “You’re glowing, after all.” Miranda had curly black hair, a large beauty mark next to her lips, and although she wasn’t as thin as Jessie, she was more muscle than fat, even while she was pregnant.
“Reminds me, tell Annabelle hi,” Miranda smiled as Jessie picked up her daughter. “Mind getting Cole for me? You don’t want me to bend down, after all.”
Jessie moved Miranda’s son to a more manageable location and took her infant daughter back to her trailer, feeding her a mushed up meal in place of the sandwich.
Jessie was Annabelle’s oldest daughter and had her when she was 16. Annabelle continued to have children for most of her life, with a sizeable gap between her youngest and the twins in her womb right now. Annabelle was still married and owed each of her children to her husband, but he was rarely home. The last time Annabelle saw her husband, he put the twins inside her.
Which worked fine for Annabelle. Her affection for him wore off quickly and she stayed married as a convenience and because she thought two parents would make raising their growing family easier. But as his absences informed her, she was more than capable of raising her children alone.
Following after her mother, Jessie got pregnant with Kelli-Anne at 16 as well. But unlike Annabelle, Jessie didn’t stay with her daughter’s father, who ended up moving soon after Jessie told him the news. The same was true of Jessie’s last three children, each with different fathers. But Jessie was, as her mother described her, a bright girl and was able to get work that fit her schedule and years of helping raise her younger brothers and sisters made motherhood much easier for her.
That “brightness” was recognized by the rest of the trailer park’s residents, who consulted Jessie on most issues of consequence and were never disappointed with the results. At least, the female residents of the park consulted her. The husbands, boyfriends, and other men didn’t think much of Jessie and thought she was only good for making babies. And since none of her babies were boys, how good was she really?
There was a knock on the trailer door and Jessie opened the door, seeing one of her other neighbors standing there. “Eva? What’s up?”
Eva was the same age as Annabelle but didn’t have nearly as many children. Eva had twins in her late teens and they now lived with her alone in the trailer. Like their mother, Eva’s daughters Maria and Margaret were tall, athletic girls with shoulder-length almond hair and long bangs.
“Jessie, there’s some men in suits nosing around near the park’s entrance. I thought you’d better find out what they want,” Eva said, arms crossed as she turned to her left.
Jessie stepped out of the trailer and saw three men in suits. Two were taller and carried briefcases while the third, walking ahead of them, smiled and waved at Jessie, picking up his pace to meet her. “Hello there. My name is Jared and I’m from CMC Pharmaceutical. Do you mind if I have a quick word with you.”
Eva looked between Jessie and Jared nervously before backing away and heading to her own trailer. Jessie crossed her arms, leery about businessmen from the city coming to prey on the poorer residents of the trailer park, especially during the day when most of the men were gone. “And what would you like to talk about?”
“It’s not a short story, so I’d really rather talk inside, sitting down, if that’s alright,” Jared said, his smile persisting. “But to be brief, we’re looking for some people to enter into a risk-free trial and we can pay substantially up front for your participation.”
As Jessie started to open her mouth, Annabelle tapped her on the shoulder. “Don’t turn them away now. Money’s money, little girl.”
Jessie sighed. She had to agree. “Come on in,” she said, holding the door for Jared.
“Thank you,” he beamed, gesturing for his accomplices to stay outside. Kelli-Anne moved into the room she shared with her mother as Jared sat down across from Jessie. “Now what I’m working on right now is a new fertility drug.”
“Fertility drug?” Jessie said, holding Laura in her lap. “You mean for ladies who can’t get pregnant.”
“Exactly right, miss…”
“Just call me Jessie,” she said. “So, you were saying?”
“Right, well, we’re very close to a new product that we believe will be very effective. But what we need is a brief test to see where we need to set levels,” Jared said. “It’s a lot of scientific jargon I don’t think you’d understand.”
Jessie sighed softly, all too familiar with men from the city looking down on her intelligence. “And you want me as a test subject? No offense, sir, but I don’t need your drug to get pregnant, even if I wanted to be.”
Jared laughed at this, covering his mouth with his hand. “No, that’s why I wanted to talk with you. We need to test this on women who already have high fertility levels. From there, we’ll know how to proceed.” He removed his hand, his smile still wide and devilish. “Tell me, Jessie, how many children have you had?”
Jessie crossed her arms and cleared her throat. “Four babies in the last four years.”
“So you can see what I mean: high fertility levels. Women in, forgive me, these more rural areas tend to be more fertile and the Linkervine Trailer Park just happened to be the first one we stopped at,” he said. “And likely the last. There are a lot of women here.”
“You said you’ll pay?” Jessie said, on the verge of kicking this disrespectful man out of her home.
“$10,000 up front,” Jared said, taking out a corporate checkbook. “And another $15,000 when we come back in a week to get the results.”
Annabelle gasped and both Jessie and Jared turned to look at her. “Sorry, just a hard kick,” she smiled, trying to cover up her shock at the amount of money being offered.
“You’re eligible for the drug as well, miss,” Jared said to Annabelle. “It won’t interfere with your pregnancy or damage your fetuses.”
Jessie gulped. That meant, total, they would have $50,000 between them. She may not like this man, but she couldn’t ethically give up a chance at that much money. “I’ll do it,” she said.
“Me too,” Annabelle said with much more enthusiasm.
“Excellent,” Jared grinned, handing both women a deceptively short contract to sign. Once they signed, he put a bottle of pills on the table. “I need to see you both take one, please.”
Jessie and Annabelle both filled up a glass of water and swallowed the pill. Annabelle rubbed her belly as she felt the cool water slide down her esophagus and felt her twins kicking. “Oof, they’re active now.”
“I’ll have to make a note of that side effect,” Jared chuckled as he wrote the mother and daughter a check for $10,000 each. “I’ll see you both in a week. Thank you and have a great day!”
Jared left the trailer and scoffed to the two men with briefcases. “Easy. Wave a little money in front of these rednecks and they’ll do anything.”
“And they don’t even know how much money we stand to make with this drug,” one of the other men chuckled.
“Millions,” Jared smiled. “We should be paying these women more than quadruple for what they’re contributing to this product.”
The representatives from CMC Pharmaceutical ended up getting every woman of age in the trailer park to take the pill and sign up for the study. Back in Jessie’s trailer, she was sitting beside her mother, running her hands over Annabelle’s belly. “Shame Crystal wasn’t here. We could have made even more,” Annabelle said.
“Do you want her to get pregnant too?” Jessie chuckled. “And with some baby pill inside her, she’d blow up like a house.”
“She’s held off longer than either of us,” Annabelle sighed. Crystal was Annabelle’s third child and second daughter, currently a senior in high school. “Think this’ll make us extra-big when we get pregnant again?”
“You mean ‘if,’ don’t you?” Jessie said, patting her mother’s belly. “I’m not planning on having any more babies for a long time.”
“I have a feeling these two aren’t my last,” Annabelle said, looking down at her large, bare stomach. “And you know, I’ve always…enjoyed being pregnant.” Annabelle started to blush and bit her lip. “I’m not much of a role model, am I?”
“Momma, hush,” Jessie sighed, putting one arm around Annabelle’s shoulder and holding her close. “You’re a great lady and I couldn’t have asked for a better momma. And if you want to be a momma to more little brothers and sister of mine, that’s fine with me.”
Meanwhile, Crystal was sitting in her high school biology class as the teacher explained the upcoming assignment. “You’ll each be paired up with another student and will need to give a presentation on a particular system in the human body,” he said, rattling off the groups and assignments. “Joshua and Crystal. You’ve got the female reproductive system.”
Joshua gulped, turning to look at Crystal a few rows from his desk. Like her sister, Crystal stood out as the most beautiful girl in the school and they looked mostly the same, except Crystal ombréd her hair and dressed less revealingly at school than Jessie did at the trailer park. By contrast, Joshua was a nerd who didn’t have the benefit of being part of the “nerd clique.”
The class rearranged itself as they worked on their projects as Crystal sat beside Joshua. “So, any ideas on what you’d want to do?” Crystal asked, crossing her arms and leaning on her desk.
“Maybe some diagrams in a PowerPoint?” Joshua said.
Crystal gave a light grunt of agreement, nodding and looking absent-mindedly at the assignment sheet in front of them.
“I mean, does that sound good to you?” Joshua asked. “Do you have anything in mind you’d like to try?”
Crystal broke her head up and scratched her cheek gently. “Why are you asking me? Aren’t you the smart kid in class? Whatever you want is fine.”
“No, I’m hardly the best student,” Joshua said with a little laugh. “You wouldn’t say that if you saw my test scores. Maybe I just fake it. ‘Don’t mistake composure for ease.’” He turned and saw Crystal look at him with an odd look. “T-that’s a line from Star Trek.”
“Okay,” Crystal said with a smile, giving a little laugh.
“But seriously, your ideas are as good as mine,” Joshua said as the bell rang. “Um, let’s figure out a time to meet next class?”
“Sure,” Crystal said, maintaining her smile as she stood up and walked back to her desk. Joshua let out a long sigh, his heart pounding from just talking to the school’s top beauty.
Back at the trailer park, Crystal walked into her home, now cramped as the rest of Annabelle’s children returned from school. “Anything exciting happen?”
“Same ‘ol, same ‘ol,” Jessie sighed, working in the mobile home’s kitchen, trying not to bump into her mother’s belly. “Momma, would you sit down and rest? You’re close to your due date, after all.”
“Fine, Crystal,” Annabelle sighed, rubbing her belly and waddling to the living space of the trailer. “Go help your sister make supper.”
Crystal switched out with her pregnant mother and started getting out spices, noticing the pill bottle in the corner of the counter. “What are these?”
“Some businessman paid momma and I to test out some drug for him,” Jessie said, not looking as Crystal opened the bottle. “He said they won’t do anything, but he’ll have to come back in a week to check. Too bad you weren’t here. You could have made some money.”
“Yeah, too bad,” Crystal said as she swallowed one of the pills and grinned at her shocked sister.
“Crystal, what are you doin’ taking mystery pills like that?” Jessie said, snatching the bottle away.
“I don’t like being left out,” Crystal giggled. “Besides, it says they’re just fertility pills and I doubt they’ll do anything to someone in our family.”
“Can I take one too?” Kallie, Annabelle’s middle child, asked, peeking into the kitchen.
“No, let’s try and keep anyone else from trying these,” Jessie sighed, shoving the bottle into her pocket. “And let’s hope nothing happens.”
Four days later, Crystal and Joshua were both working in the school’s library, looking at Joshua’s laptop screen. “These diagrams are really well done,” Joshua said with a smile, scrolling through.
“You sure?” Crystal said. “I mean, I didn’t know if this was what the teacher was looking for.”
“It’s a little out of the box, but that’s what makes these so good,” Joshua said, turning to Crystal. He thought by now, he’d no longer tremble every time he looked at her, but over the past days, her skin started looking more radiant and her chest seemed larger. “Your ideas are excellent.”
Crystal rolled her eyes and sighed. “Thanks.”
“Sorry, am I being too gushy?” Joshua asked.
“No, I’m just…” Crystal sighed. “Not used to people asking me for my ideas, especially about school stuff.”
Joshua looked around. They were in a secluded part of the library and it was already after school. “Do people not like your contributions?”
She shrugged. “Some people don’t expect much from me. Teachers, neighbors, Scott.” Scott was Crystal’s boyfriend and captain of the school’s lacrosse team.
Joshua paused for a second, thinking over his words. “If he doesn’t respect your ideas, why do you stay with him.”
Crystal laughed out loud and smiled at Joshua, letting out a long sigh. “Joshua, you’re a great guy and you’re smart, but there are some things you just don’t understand.”
Joshua laughed uncomfortably and decided to move on. He scrolled through their presentation and jumped when Crystal prodded him in the side with her finger. “W-what?”
“Why do you get so tense every time our slides show a pregnant woman?” Crystal said with a little smile.
“I-I’m not,” Joshua said, blushing. Crystal’s smile only grew.
“Just between us, I swear,” she whispered, leaning in. “Do you have, you know, a thing for pregnant women?”
Joshua looked around again and gave a small nod. Crystal grinned and giggled.
“Secret’s safe with me. Just remind me not to take you home around my momma and sister.” Crystal’s eyelids lowered as she stroked her chin. “Actually, maybe I should. I think they’d like you. You’re a goof, but you’re nice.”
“T-thanks,” Joshua gulped. “I think.”
Back at the trailer park, Jessie was humming to herself as she walked around the outside, cleaning up toys while Annabelle waddled around, trying to stay in shape as best she could.
“Late day at school?” Annabelle panted, her face red from moving around so much with her heaviest pregnant brood yet.
“Sort of. Working on a project,” Crystal said, putting her bike in the trailer’s crawl space and locking the door. “Jessie, you’re in a good mood.”
“I sure am,” Jessie smirked. “I got in touch with all the other women in the trailer park. Everything’s set.”
“Really?” Crystal smiled, turning to Annabelle. “And momma, what about you?”
“Like your sister said, we’ve got it all worked out,” Annabelle smiled, rubbing her hand across her bare belly. “Now, come inside. We kept some supper warm for you.”
“I’m okay,” Crystal said. “I had something to eat with a…friend before I got back.”
Jared couldn’t stop laughing to himself as he pulled his car past the Linkervine Trailer Park. “Time to collect our millions from these white trash women.”
“All they’ll do is spend their $15,000 on more babies they’ll squeeze out,” one of his associates chuckled in the passenger seat.
His comment made Jared realize something was a little different about the trailer park this time. Before, there were grubby little kids everywhere. This time, it was totally empty.
As Jared parked and looked around, he saw his first person: a woman in a rolled up t-shirt with a truly massive pregnant belly. It was like she swallowed two over-inflated yoga balls. The woman was rubbing her round stomach before she turned and smiled, waving to the three pharmaceutical representatives.
“She’s colossal,” one of the suitcase-carrying men murmured.
“They couldn’t help themselves getting knocked up before we got back,” Jared grinned. “And look how pregnant this one is. This drug is even more successful than I imagined.”
“Oh, Mr. Jared,” Jessie said, calling through the open door of her trailer. “Please, come in.”
Jared tried to tone down his glee and walked into the mobile home, his smile growing again when he saw the size of Jessie’s belly. She could barely turn without her pregnant tummy hitting the walls of the trailer and she struggled to move with an appropriate gait toward the man from the pharmaceutical company.
“I see our drug had an effect,” he said. “You can see, it wasn’t a placebo. Sorry, let me explain. A placebo is-”
“I know what a placebo is, sir,” Jessie smirked, crossing her arms against her breasts, which like her belly, had considerably grown since Jared last saw her. “And your pills worked, just not the way I think you intended.”
“Oh?” Jared smiled, not sure what this woman was getting at.
“But first, my $15,000, please.”
“Sure thing,” Jared said, taking out his corporate checkbook and writing Jessie a check for the agreed sum. “Now, let me just do a quick test and-”
“No, let me just tell you what your pills did,” Jessie smiled, putting one hand on Jared’s shoulder and pushing him toward the door, leaving his checkbook on the table. Outside, the trailer park’s female population was standing in front of Jessie’s trailer, hands on their enormous bellies, all of varying size. But the smallest could well be described as “beach ball ready to pop.”
“What, you’re all upset you got so pregnant?” Jared scoffed. “Check your contracts. CMC Pharmaceuticals paid you for your participation and you don’t get to sue for any effects of the drug.” The women all started to laugh softly and Jared’s smile went away. “Hey…where are my men?”
“In here,” Maria and Margaret said in unison, waddling up and rubbing their bellies. Each one was so large, their arms would need to be three times as long just to reach the front, let along their popped-out pierced navels. Their pants were both down and their thighs were wet with sticky amniotic fluid. “But it’s uncomfortable to have them in there fully dressed. We’ll have to find a way to filter out the clothes.”
“Britney was able to do that with her husband, so you’ll get them out soon,” Jessie smiled to her neighbors.
“What the hell is going on?” Jared barked at Jessie.
“I don’t know if it was the pill itself or if we ‘rural’ women are just already too fertile, but seems it made us able to ‘unbirth’ others,” Jessie said, walking down the steps of her trailer, stroking her enormous belly, which moved and throbbed under her fingers.
“For those of us with husbands or boyfriends we’re frustrated with, it makes things much easier,” one woman smiled, patting her large maternal bulge. “Though I don’t think there are any men left in the park that aren’t in someone’s tummy now.”
“Same with kids,” the first woman Jared saw at the trailer park said, pressing her hands into the small of her back, accentuating her size. “It’s a lot easier to keep track of them if they’re just squirming around in here.”
Jared gulped and saw the women closing in on him. “A-and those of you who were already knocked up.”
Jessie sighed and looked down at her belly, wrapping her arms around her mighty middle. “I thought I’d give momma some time off of her feet by letting her relax in here. She can’t exactly carry my little sister inside her with two babies growing in her, can she?”
The impression of a pregnant belly on the side of Jessie’s smooth, swollen stomach put an exclamation point on her statement. Jared backed up until he bumped into Eva. “Don’t go just yet, sir. As a scientist, don’t you want to see for yourself?”
“But if you get rid of me,” Jared gulped, a nervous grin growing on his lips. “The rest of you won’t get your money.”
Jessie held up the CMC Pharmaceutical checkbook and Jared’s smile vanished. “It’s in our contracts that we agreed to get paid, remember? And your signature doesn’t look that hard to recreate.”
“Alright, enough talking,” Eva smiled, dropping her sweatpants while her big-bellied twin daughters grabbed Jared to hold him steady. “I haven’t had something kicking around in my womb for a long time and I’m looking forward to it.”
Jared’s yells of protest were muffled as Maria and Margaret shoved him inside their mother, her belly growing bit by bit until, once Jared had completely vanished inside her birth canal, it swelled in one big spurt to a size so big, a bystander would think she was overdue with octuplets.
“Good, I was tired to looking at him, with his smug smile,” Jessie sighed, stroking her belly. “Well done, ladies.”
“Did I miss it?” Crystal said as she rode up to her mobile home on her bike. Joshua followed behind her, nearly falling off of his ride when he saw the fantastically pregnant women standing in the park.
“Just the tail end,” Jessie said, waddling over to her sister. “Who’s this?”
“I-I’m Joshua,” he said, reaching out a shaky hand to Jessie before Crystal wrapped an arm around his waist.
“He’s a good friend of mine,” Crystal smiled. “And we just got a fantastic grade on a project. Thanks to him, my class average is saved.”
“N-no, you did a lot of work yourself,” Joshua said with a bashful smile as Crystal held him close. “We wouldn’t have gotten as good a grade if it wasn’t for you.”
“So to thank him and to celebrate, I thought I’d take him to see all of you,” Crystal said, turning to Joshua. “What do you think?”
“I-I think you made the right call,” Joshua said, laughing nervously. But his laugh was cut off when Crystal kissed him on the cheek. “Oh…um…”
“Don’t be so shy,” Crystal said, taking one of his hands and walking Joshua to the door of her mobile home. “C’mon, let’s go inside.”
Once in, Joshua and Crystal were on her futon quickly, kissing and fondling one another. “S-so, your whole trailer park is pregnant.”
“Not exactly,” Crystal said, her breath hot and heavy. “And you’ll get to meet them all soon, but for now, I just want to join in with them.”
“J-join in with them?” Joshua said as Crystal started dropping her skirt and underwear. “C-Crystal? Aren’t we moving a little fast?”
“Maybe, but these are special circumstances,” she smiled. “Now, no questions: take off as much clothing as you want and go inside me,” she said, pointing to her naked sex. “Head first, please.”
