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It was a rainy day in Seattle. Emerald City Comic-con was coming in a matter of days. And Jamie was excited. He had issued a challenge with his friend, Serena. No, they weren't dating, but he wished they were. The challenge was to build a costume that had some kind of special trick that they would let the fans of ECCC decide who was the best. But first, he would have to make the costume. So he decided on a waterbender costume, from Avatar: the last airbender. His special "power" was that he would have a tube that pumped water from his wrists, as if he was literally waterbending.

I was determined to have my prize. It had taken a long time to get it together but I was close to my goal.

The necessary equipment lay ranged around the room: large tank of helium, hose and regulator, lubricants and, glittering prize, Busty Becky. Becky arrived in the mail that morning, wrapped in brown paper. Becky the latex love doll. She came packaged with promises of the ride of a lifetime and various stats about the sizes she could be inflated to and weights she could support at each size. Weight wouldn’t be a problem today.

Hi, I’m Rob. I’m into balloon and body inflation. Just like you.

My wife’s name is Alyssa. She recently had four of her friends over for a girls night: Denise, Tina, Kelly and Sophie.

This is a story about people inflating like balloons. Becoming balloons.

This is my story.

“You see that tree over there.” Tina pointed to the large oak tree.

Tina bit into her pizza. Rin turned his head in the direction of Tina’s finger. Rin predicted what Tina would say next. He sympathized with her.

Tina went on, “No one could ever inflate to that size without the skin tearing itself up.”

Tina fantasized about all the possibilities of the body expanding. What if nobody blew up or died but instead continued to grow for as long as they wanted to. Tina dreamed of inflating.