Alice No-Forethought

Date Written: 
05/22/2022

This wasn't like Alice at all. She always thought things through, always planned for the worst. Her condition had defied her every effort to control it, and after far too many near-debacles and almost-disasters, she'd learned to be constantly vigilant for the first signs of a "gas attack". And when all her forethought and preparation inevitably came to naught, Alice made a point of learning from her mistakes. No longer did she keep her pills in a purse that she might misplace, like the last time, for example. Now she kept them in her pants pocket, where they'd always be within arm's reach.

And in arm's reach they were, in a pocket that, thanks to her ballooning butt, she could no more access than shuck a clam with her bare hands.

Panic always brought out the worst in Alice's brain. At the first gentle flutter of abdominal pressure, she'd fled the crowd and run as deep into the woods as she could before her tightening pants locked her legs, thus guaranteeing that no one would be around to help her, no matter how loudly she might scream. And in her haste she'd once again abandoned her purse, with her phone and radio beacon safely and uselessly inside. Two more mental notes Alice made as she fought in vain to open her fly, the overstressed zipper not even budging.

How could gas, something so light and free, possibly move so slowly? It would eventually reach her mouth and she could belch it out, at great length and with even greater effort -- but first it had to work its way through seemingly every cubic millimeter of her torso, widening her trunk and swelling her belly as it passed. Alice had taken off her bra, remembering how it had pinched her so during her last incident. This meant that her breasts, freed from confinement, had become miniature hot-air balloons, places where rising gas could collect and become trapped. She groaned as their slow but relentless rise made room for ever more gas. One more lesson learned.

Alice gasped as the seat of her pants gave way with a BANG! Her hand flew to her pocket, which was still too tight to get into, but she felt the seam slowly tearing across her crotch, and soon she'd finally be able to take her pills. But they took minutes just to halt the production of new gas in her body, and ridding herself of what was already there was entirely on her. The buoyancy of her chest bent her back so far that most of the gas was settling in her boobs; what had been a torrent of eructations had tapered off into only the occasional gentle puff. Wrapping her arms around her now basketball-sized bosom, Alice tried to rein it in, fighting a losing battle against their inexorable lift.

And her pants chose that moment to give up the ghost, splitting down the middle with no warning. Too late did she yank her arms down to her sides, two hollow THOPs reverberating through the trees as her hands spanked her bare ass, as the torn fabric pooled around her ankles.

Prioritize, Alice made a chagrined mental note to herself. Don't try to treat a symptom if it means abandoning the cure. She squatted down to reach her pills, and was immediately presented with yet another lesson. After busting through countless panties, she had at considerable expense custom-ordered the sturdiest pair she could imagine. And sturdy they were, holding together even when wrapped around enough hips for two women with extra to spare. But squatting put them at their absolute limit, and with most of her body weight negated, Alice simply couldn't force herself down any farther against them. Desperately she tried to shove them down her hips, only managing to get them to the halfway point, but it was enough, and her hands blindly groped at the shreds of denim at her feet.

And then her feet left the ground.

She wasted precious seconds screaming to no one and flailing at nothing. She wasted several more craning her neck to try to see the ground behind her. At the last possible moment, she made two hail-mary backwards grabs, one hand clutching only at bare dirt, but the other miraculously grasped a generous tuft of grass. Alice's knuckles turned white as she held on for dear life, her breasts now hanging pendulously to her navel, her legs dangling over blue sky as the remains of her jeans hung upward from her feet, tufts of ripped denim tickling her backside.

Alice wasted no time reaching for her pocket with her free hand, but the loose, dangly fabric conspired against her efforts, as her gas attack entered a new phase. With her personal gravity inverted, the gas had to retrace its path through her body, so her ability to vent was temporarily suspended -- but her production was as steady as ever. And what did make it to her rear exit found no escape, thanks to two bulbous buttocks cinched by a maddeningly obstinate strip of cloth. Instead it was entrapped in her legs, swelling her thighs, knees, and calves. Alice felt her shoes grow tight around her feet until one simply popped off, briefly kicking her pants out of reach, and slid down through the leg to land near her head; the other soon followed.

She finally got her hand on the envelope just as her handhold gave way. Alice's stomach plummeted, her heart leapt in her throat, and an eternity seemed to pass in four seconds before the world lurched around her. The crotch of her jeans had snagged on a passing branch, and she suddenly found herself right-side up again, her swollen feet snagged in her pants legs the only anchors she had left. Her underwear chose this moment to give way with a thunderous CRACK echoing through the distance, a wasted sacrifice as the gas was once again marching to her mouth. Alice had mere moments until her last ties to the earth failed her, but at last her salvation was at hand.

Opening the envelope, she saw that the pressure of her growing ass had crushed the pills into powder, but they should still be potent. She shook the packet into her mouth, but something, static cling or moisture or just the sheer cussedness of the universe conspiring against her, held the powder stuck to the plastic. In desperation, she stuck the packet into her mouth, intending to lick the medicine out --

Alice would always wonder how such a huge belch could come unbidden, when she normally had to move heaven and earth to summon them even when her condition was at its worst. The cause was an academic point, at any rate, since the effect was that the packet and its precious powder were launched from her hand to land somewhere off in the distance. "NOOOOOOO!" she screamed, but this last miscalculation had sealed her fate. With the gas departing her lower extremities, her feet shrank down until they slipped free, and Alice's body was borne swiftly upward, her wails going unheard as she vanished into the sky.


This was a learning experience, she reflected to herself, as she emerged glistening and shivering from the cloud bank. Alice had made one bad decision, one wasted effort, one self-sabotage after another. Any one of the choices she'd made, if she'd chosen differently, could have kept her grounded. But she'd let panic rule her, and in her panic had squandered every chance she had.

Alice let loose a thunderous eructation into the chasm of cleavage dangling in front of her. The pressure in her body briefly abated, only to slowly mount again as her relentless condition continued to inflate her. She spent every waking moment of the past... however many days... trying to pass out as much gas as she could, but the best she could manage was to stay below the stratosphere. And she could burp for a solid month, but she still had these mini-weather balloons stuck to her chest, and that gas wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

But still she burped, and still she hoped. She'd get back down eventually, right? This attack couldn't last forever, could it? And even if it did, someone would look in her lost purse and see the note inside, wouldn't they? And even without her beacon, the weather bureau could extrapolate where the currents had taken her and send a rescue mission. All she had to do was wait for that, and in the meantime, all she had to do with herself was replay that day in her mind, going over everything she did wrong and everything she'd do right next time.

Alice had learned all the lessons she needed to keep herself grounded, if only she got the chance.

Author's Note: 

Written stream-of-consciousness in one three-hour session. I've seen too many stories of helpless inflatees, so I wanted to write one where the protagonist does everything she can to stop inflating/floating away, but her every effort accomplishes nothing or even makes the situation worse. Please leave a comment if you liked the story (or a constructive criticism, if you didn't).

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SvenS
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Very Good!

Often times, these kinds of stories that just pop into your head are the best!  The pacing is good and you have just the right amount of exposition.  You put a lot of thought into how the protagonist deals with the situation she is in and it makes her a more interesting character - I'd actually like to find out more about her. 

Baron_o_Beef_Dip
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Awesome!

This is the best inflation story I've read in a long time! I love that there's no popping & gas deflation seems very underutilized elsewhere! It would've been nice to have some onomatopoeias & if I had my way I would've had some hint at the end that she begins to enjoy her situation, but these are nitpicks & overall the story is near perfect!

RenegadeKamui
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Thanks for the comment!

One of my favorite parts of inflation is when the inflatee tries to manage her situation, stop herself from blowing up and/or floating away, and I'm glad to hear that someone else appreciates that aspect too. I do have a couple instances of onomatopoeia in the story, and I thought about including more, but I thought they'd make the story too cartoonish. After all, the best sound effects are the ones you provide in your head.

As for Alice enjoying her situation, I didn't think that would be appropriate for her character. I actually have a backstory planned for her that gives her a complex relationship to her condition, which didn't really fit in this story, but I'm hoping to use it in future stories featuring the character. But suffice it to say, it would be out of character for her to get any pleasure out of inflating or floating.

Thanks again for your interest.

Baron_o_Beef_Dip
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You're welcome & like I said,

You're welcome & like I said, they were minor nitpicks. I look forward to more stories like this.

violet_brother
Sounds like a fascinating

Sounds like a fascinating character! I can't wait to learn more about her!

Who here is up for INTENSE ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT?! YAAAAAY

manofmanywords
yoooooo, good to see you back after so long

one thing I really like about your stuff is how you alawys put success within reach of the protagonist, but some happenstance or error pushes it just out of that reach. This story really capitalises well on that. I also quite like how the epilogue leaves it open that she *might* be fine in the future, still keeping the essence of peril and a bad end while making it feel a bit less bleak. Really looking forward to seeing what else you have up your sleeve in future!

violet_brother
A+

What a fantastic story! Characters with inflationary conditions are a great concept, executed flawlessly here! All the little details of her predicament are fantastic - the pants being too tight to reach into the pocket, the pills being pulverized to dust by the pressure - you can tell how much thought was put into how every aspect of her condition affects her and the things around her.

That and buoyant inflatees are my weakness, there's something thrilling about the danger of floating off into the sky that you explore very well here, her fright as she does everything in her power to avoid tumbling away to join the clouds as a gaseous form of her own~!

Can't wait to see more from you in the future!

Who here is up for INTENSE ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT?! YAAAAAY

RenegadeKamui
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Thank you!

Thanks so much for the comment, it's great to hear that people enjoy my work and love the same things about inflation that I do.

With regards to your other comment: I don't have any plans to revisit Alice at the moment (although you're welcome to use her for a story of your own). I've actually decided to turn this story into the first of a series about a world where some women have a mysterious condition that causes them to inflate at certain times. There's no medical or magical explanation (although in some cases it can be controlled by medication), and the triggers vary by person -- it could happen on a weekly or monthly basis, be triggered by hiccups or sneezing, by certain sights or sounds or smells, or hearing certain words, and in some cases it occurs completely at random. The second story is in the works, and I have an idea for a third.