Muscle Theft

You grow: 145 lb to seven feet of muscle

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Tex has always been the skinny one. Then a stranger in leather took his hand at the Anvil, and now every man he touches has something he can take. From 145 pounds of nothing to seven feet of freak.

Win the tug of war and their muscle pours into you, live, before your eyes. Lose it, and they take yours. Drain them where they stand: your smug colleague at his own desk while his back is turned, Riverside’s star running back across an arm-wrestling table, and two leathermen at the bar at once, one hand on each.

Take Jake home. He matched with you because he likes big guys. By morning his T-shirt hangs off him like it belongs to someone else. It does now.

Seven stages of you. Your chest, arms and neck swell as the bar tips your way, until your shirt splits at the seams and gives up altogether. Back home, you weigh in and flex in the mirror, the scale ticking up a pound at a time.

Take on Iron Haven. Out-pose Dominic on his own stage, then come back after closing to spot Viktor: 430 pounds, the biggest man in the city, pressing behind the neck in his own gym. Keep the bar level and drain him under it. Then the stranger in leather calls, and he wants it all back. Five endings.

Inspired by Shrink Files 32: Tex’s Muscle Theft, the illustrated story of Tex, Jake, the leather bar and the leather daddy who turns the tables.