Growing in the Big Apple

You grow: six feet to fifteen hundred

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Ninety seconds, with sound: the gym, the tarp, fans at his feet, a fan swallowed whole and the news helicopter in his hand.

You are Danny: twenty-eight, six feet tall, and one free pre-workout sachet away from the biggest Friday of his life. From six feet at breakfast to fifteen hundred at midnight, play as the growing man through one day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, with the whole city looking up at you.

Burst out of your work shirt in the middle of the boss’s stand-up, then sit out the afternoon with your head in the ceiling tiles. Show off at the gym: curl the heaviest dumbbells with your trainer and the gym regular hanging off your arms.

Pick people up and hold them in the palm of your hand: your flatmate, your crush, your boss at his office window. On Pier 84 the crowd kneels round your bare foot to kiss and rub your toes. Wiggle them and watch them scatter.

Swallow them whole, if they ask. A fan lies down on your palm and slides in head first, and you let him out again whenever you like. Soft vore: whole, warm, never hurt.

Stomp parked cars flat, lift a water tower off a roof, wade into the Hudson and pluck the news helicopter out of the sky. Then free roam Hell’s Kitchen at every size. Three acts, the Morning, the Afternoon and the Night, saved as you go.