I’m Carmen, our long-distance inter-planetary ship’s lead horticulturalist. It’s my job to supervise the hydroponics bay, which includes a transplanted alien vine and several pod-plants I’m learning to cultivate on our way to the Gliese system.

Most women on the ship are preparing to start families, but not me. Thanks to my husband’s condition, my womb is as barren as the earth-plants that I’m unsuccessfully trying to propagate.

When a solar flare destroys all my plants except for the alien vine, I decide to make use of my empty womb to meet the crew’s nutritional needs.

But the alien vine has mutated! Soon my body is completely entwined in its vines, and my womb is full of multiple spores, all of which begin growing fruit. To my surprise, my best assets also begin to provide nourishment for this unusual plant.

The newly-sentient vine won’t let anyone interrupt the extreme fruitfulness of my rapidly enlarging belly, leaving me to wonder: just how fruitful am I going to become?

Note to readers: this is a sequel to my story “Implanted With An Alien Vine’s Spore,” but it can also be read as a stand-alone.