Mondo-Dave-O
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This has bugged me for some time and I just realized I could use the collective minds of these forums to locate a weight gain story I read in late summer of 1974.
Briefly; it was about a couple that moved into a neighborhood, where all the husbands were fat. There was some 'kept quiet', conspriacy-like contest amongst the wives to keep the men fat and to see who had the fattest husband at the end of each year. In the course of the story the new neighbor wife wasn't able to get her husband's weight 'up to snuff'. Some of the women then decide to help her. As these stories typically end, her husband became the largest and she wins, with the other women crying foul and so on. Now this really sounds like 75% of the male weight gain fantasy stories out there.
The thing is; if the mind doesn't play tricks on me here.. it was in a collection of sci- fi short stories written in the latter 1960's or early 70's. It was the only story of this type in the volume. It was possibly in one of the collections of sci-fi that Issac Asimov edited. I think I was maybe eighteen and I found this in a library with any other volume. I have no idea who wrote it or the name of story or the book.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I can't find a search engine for sci-fi that hits it.
Briefly; it was about a couple that moved into a neighborhood, where all the husbands were fat. There was some 'kept quiet', conspriacy-like contest amongst the wives to keep the men fat and to see who had the fattest husband at the end of each year. In the course of the story the new neighbor wife wasn't able to get her husband's weight 'up to snuff'. Some of the women then decide to help her. As these stories typically end, her husband became the largest and she wins, with the other women crying foul and so on. Now this really sounds like 75% of the male weight gain fantasy stories out there.
The thing is; if the mind doesn't play tricks on me here.. it was in a collection of sci- fi short stories written in the latter 1960's or early 70's. It was the only story of this type in the volume. It was possibly in one of the collections of sci-fi that Issac Asimov edited. I think I was maybe eighteen and I found this in a library with any other volume. I have no idea who wrote it or the name of story or the book.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I can't find a search engine for sci-fi that hits it.
