A Growing Problem

A GROWING PROBLEM Start microscopic. Eat everything. Keep growing. You are a tiny, very hungry blob, smaller than a speck of dust, living in the soil of a houseplant. Anything smaller than you is food. So you eat. And you grow. And the world changes around you: the crumb you hid behind becomes a snack, the bug that chased you becomes lunch, and the bedroom that was a whole world becomes a starter. If it's smaller than you, it's food Pollen. Crumbs. Sweets. Toys. Eventually the furniture, the family car and the house itself. Every bite makes you bigger, and the bigger you get, the more of the world is on the menu. Everything wants to eat you... for now Mites, mice, a robot vacuum and the family cat. In the aquarium: crabs, jellyfish that swallow you whole, and a sea otter with a rock. Stay out of their way while you're small. Then it's your turn Everything that hunts you can be eaten once you've outgrown it. They remember you. You remember them. From a plant pot to the whole planet Eat your way out of the pot, through the bedroom and the bathroom, downstairs and out of the house. Then the street. The neighbourhood. The town. The city. The world.