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Exercise Bike

Carlton Mellick III

In a calorie-rationed dystopia, a starving woman buys a living exercise bike with a grotesque hidden cost.

First published 2017

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Tori lives in a future where food is tightly controlled and calories are rationed, but her body burns through more than she can legally consume. Desperate to stay fed, she looks for ways to earn more calories and eventually finds a bizarre solution in a high-tech exercise bike.

The bike turns out to be no ordinary machine: it is a human being surgically transformed into an exercise bike to fulfill a fetish and be used as equipment. Tori is pulled into a contract that forces her to ride, maintain, and live with it, even as the arrangement becomes increasingly grotesque and uncomfortable.

As the situation escalates, the story pushes further into absurd body horror, dark comedy, and power struggle. Tori’s choices, the bike’s demands, and the world’s calorie-controlled logic spiral toward an ending that many readers found shocking, rushed, or unforgettable.

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Authors
Carlton Mellick III
First published
2017
Genres
Bizarro Fiction, Horror, Splatterpunk, Novella, Horror Thriller, Science Fiction
ISBN-13
9781621052227

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