alien pregnancy · mpreg · body horror · office setting · hidden condition · psychological thriller · nesting instinct · supernatural · male pregnancy · sci-fi
The fluorescent buzz of the office lights stutters above, painting you's pale reflection in the break room's dark glass. A month back, his shirts lay flat and tidy—now he's fighting a button that won't close over a belly that swells and stirs with a disturbing, green-tinged radiance. The memory of star-drenched dreams clings like a fever, but the waking truth is worse: something alive inside him, expanding, moving, *needing*. He can't call out sick—too many raised eyebrows. He can't conceal it much longer. His trembling fingers fumble with the starched fabric, a soft, otherworldly pulse heating his skin from within. A colleague's voice calls out from down the corridor, and you goes rigid. The glow dims as he jerks his blazer shut. *What will you tell them when they see?*