Growth: Impossible 
by Frank Salmon, Germany. Translation by Jim Moskowitz.       


Prologue

Since StephenUs cruel and regrettable demise under ErikaUs foot,
she had plunged into her work as a physicist, and forgotten about
him.  Stephen had been the victim of a failed time-travel
experiment she had carried out with him.  The actual time-trip
was successful, but upon returning from the future he began to
shrink, and he didnUt stop until his height
was only barely 6 inches.
Who knew how far the shrinking process would have gone on,
had his time-journey amounted to more than one minute in the
past!
>From the notes she made, she found that this shrinking process
ended exactly a minute after his return.  


I. 

ErikaUs analytical mind considered the facts and assembled a
believable hypothesis, but it weighed heavily on her.  She
experimented with inanimate objects which she sent into the
past and then brought back again, but none were altered in any
way.  As soon as she experimented with living things, they
showed the shrinking effect.  Erika sent a rose 5 minutes into
the past and when she brought it back, five minutes later the
shrinking began, and after five minutes it stopped.  The rose
could now barely be seen with the naked eye, but under a
microscope she could easily identify its structure.  It was
uninjured and identical to normal-sized flowers in the smallest
detail.

Finally Erika began to send plants into the future.   To be on the
safe side only a few seconds.  Nevertheless, the effect was
obvious.  Erika had from the basis of her experiments
hypothesized what would happen, but she was still startled
when the effect actually occurred.   This time, there was no
diminution, but an expansion which was proportional to the
time journey experienced.  Erika sent her test subjects ever
further into the future, and the growth occurred proportionally. 
One plant started its growth twenty minutes after its journey
into the future and, had Erika not destroyed it with acid, might
well have destroyed the laboratory....

II.

Erika locked the lab and activated the security system.  She did
not want someone to steal the Time Machine and discover the
deadly effect.  She contemplatively got into her car and went
home, all the while searching for an explanation.  She conceived
of many hypothesis and rejected each one, until she was left
with only one possibility.

The Time Machine worked on the basis of a physical effect
Erika had discovered and named induced nuclear resonance,
which moved all the atoms in a body in a common motion and
then shifted these atoms into a resonance tunnel through time
via a 5th-dimensional hyperspace.  The resonant radiation
carried the body into the past or the future.   And it appeared
that here the problem lied.   The radiation obviously had an
unexpected side-effect.  But Erika did not know whether she
could eliminate this effect. 
 
The next day she assaulted the problem with a wide variety of
experimental tests to try to better understand it.  She hope
Mark would be able to help.  Dr. Mark Altenstein was her
partner, both occupationally and romantically.  Often after
work they had sat together and discussed the results of their
experiments.  And sometimes these discussions had found an
erotic continuation in bed.

After a restless, almost sleepless night, in which Erika
worried over the problem again and again, she got up, showered
and drove to the lab.  There, Dr. Altenstein was ready with the
preparations for the dayUs tests...
...at 6:25 each day the two scientists had experimented, and had
finally seen indications of a solution to their problem.  Almost
half their experiments had returned stably from the past or
future - thanks to a precise adjustment in the resonant
radiation.

III.

Just as Erika placed a new probe onto the platform of the
nuclear resonance unit she suffered the terrible beginning of
her catastrophe...

The place where Erika stood next to the platform was enveloped
in faint rays from the time machine.  An electronic control
switch, slowly disintegrating over the months of research,
failed just at the moment when Erika was within the field of
the radiation.  She began to fade into transparency and felt a
slight pain, as the atoms of her body began resonating.  She
could still see Dr. Altenstein come rushing up to her.  He
shouted something with a horrified look, but Erika could no
longer hear him.  Then Mark, and with him the entire laboratory,
was lost to her sight. 
 
Immediately thereafter, it seemed to her, colored rays shot out
at her.  She felt like she was floating and hurtling down an
endless tube of color, reduced to a thread that spun itself upon
an axis, driven around her.  Then she saw a brilliantly clear
pulsating light at the end of her tunnel, that came nearer with
blinding speed.  Erika felt like she was rising upwards through
an infinitely deep sea and then once again recognized her
surroundings.  She was back in the laboratory and Mark got up
from the stool at the control panel of the time machine.  He had
his hand on the return button.  As soon as Erika materialized, he
jumped up and ran to the platform, to catch the fainting
scientist.

RWhat happened?S stammered Erika, looking perplexedly at Dr
Altenstein. RYou went ninety minutes into the future!S
explained her colleague.  Erika looked at the laboratoryUs clock. 
It showed 6:27.  Dr. Altenstein took a quick glance and said, RIt
took two minutes, till I succeeded in bringing you back. I
almost wasnUt able to get you back at all.  We must hope that
the expansion effect doesnUt manifest itself.  After all, 48% of
our tests came back from their journeys into the future
unaffected.  ThereUs still hope.S

RGet me home!S Erika whispered, exhausted.

IV.

Dr. Altenstein nodded.  He helped her down the stairs to the exit
and then drove her home in her car.  It was a short trip to
ErikaUs apartment in the city and they had scarcely arrived
when he got her into bed.  Mark sat at her side and stroked her
cheek.
RThanks for your help, Mark.  Without you IUd still be trapped in
the future and then who knows what would have happened?S 
Erika smiled at him, pulled his face to hers and kissed his
mouth.
ROh Erika, I couldnUt bear to lose you!S, Mark murmured and
passionately moved to her lips.

A moment later they lay side by side and his hands slid
passionately over her large, powerful body.  She moaned and
threw her lustful body up and down.  Mark was a sensitive man,
and knew all the ways to bring pleasure to his partner. Mark
lifted ErikaUs leg and his tongue slid to the tender skin  of her
strong upper thighs and he licked further, reaching her tight
well-turned calf.  And then he arrived at her feet.  His lips
closed on the beautiful big toe of her right foot.  Moaning
passionately, he devotedly sucked, while Erika massaged her
great breasts and licked her sharply erect nipples.  Her
exhaustion began  to give way to passion, and she began
involving herself in its increase.  Then he returned by high and
wandering to her face and his tongue forced its way into her
mouth. 

Then he made love to her....

V.


It was at 7:57, while lying contentedly next to one another and
drowsing, that Erika began to change.  Mark had just turned to
her and begun caressing her anew.  He stroked her magnificent
breasts.  The nipples were straining themselves erect.  he
slowly licked them.  Erika sighed lustfully and rubbed between
her legs.  Neither noticed that she had already grown almost
two inches.  Passion had made them oblivious to the change
that had begun in ErikaUs body.

Her colleague and partner lay with Erika and felt her body with
his skin.  Its warmth made him shift.  He loved her thick but
tight well-formed legs, and his hands traveled wide over her
upper thigh.  He unconsciously realized that her thigh had
increased in girth and her leg muscles were more pronounced
than they had been a short while ago.  His passion had made him
oblivious to the change which Erika herself had still not
become aware of.  She still rubbed her hand over her rapidly
growing thighs and their swelling muscles.

But now he certainly noticed it.  Mark suddenly felt ErikaUs
beautiful, round, feminine back begin to  grow harder.  Muscles
extended themselves, grew bigger and moved under her smooth
skin, as though living creatures.  ErikaUs feet thrust against the
brass bedpost.  RSomethingUs happening to me!S said Erika dully. 


Thinking had become difficult.   Parallel to the change in her
body, her mind also began to alter.  Her hitherto brilliant
intellect began to sink into a sea of animal instinct, and the
drives which have lain submerged in us all since the beginning
of evolution, were winning control.  While her body grew larger
and stronger, Erika slowly changed into a dangerous, uncaring
beast.  She gave a ferocious cry.  The transformation process
was painful. She had completely forgotten about Mark, still
lying atop her.  Her legs extended out far from the bed and she
had Dr AltensteinUs head between her expanding breasts.
Erika grabbed firmly onto the bedpost with both hands as her
arms continued to grow longer and thicker.  Her biceps had
already taken on alarming proportions.  With every motion her
mighty muscles swelled and grew ever larger.

MarkUs head lay against her belly now.  His entire body lay
between her thighs.  Her upper thighs grew ever more muscular.
Thick strong muscles with voluminous veins between them
appeared.  Her upper legs were now each as big around as his
chest.  He held fast to her right thigh and cried out fearfully as
Erika pressed her legs together spasmodically.  He thought he
felt a rib break, so mighty was the pressure of her immense leg
muscles.

The bed was collapsing under her ever increasing weight, and
ErikaUs body now stretched from one end of the room to the
other.  With a casual motion, Erika threw Mark at the wall,
where he lay still, benumbed with pain.  Erika, who was a calm
scientist no longer, but almost completely ruled by instinct,
bellowed like a wild animal in human form.  She was becoming
larger and stronger by the second.

VI.

Mark saw that she was bending the metal bedposts and her
muscles were growing ever more pronounced.  Slowly ErikaUs
foot grew closer to his head and finally squeezed against him
until her great toe was the only thing in his sight.  Mark cried
out in despair.  The foot unstoppably pressed his head into the
wall threatening to crush him.  After a desperate effort, Mark
succeeded in freeing himself, barely in time.  Then Erika stood,
as if in slow motion.  She lifted her great arms and cracked
through the ceiling of the apartment.   She was now at least
sixteen feet tall.

Mark stood for protection next to the wall and stared at ErikaUs
calves, which grew ever larger.  Their muscles throbbed with
invincible strength.  Despite his fear, he could do nothing else
but stare at the perfect form and powerful elegance of her
unbelievable legs.  Still she grew, larger and heavier.  The floor
bent under the increasing weight and then suddenly gave way
and collapsed beneath her gigantic feet.  Erika landed with both
feet on the ground and Mark fell to the first floor and lay
motionless between her feet.  It was a four story building.

ROh my God,S he suddenly thought, Rif her body responds the
same way the test subjects did in the laboratory, then sheUll
continue to grow for an hour and a half!  ThatUs how far she
went into the future!S

Erika no longer understood what was happening.  She had
become an utter beast, one that wanted to escape her cage.  She
struck wildly about herself and powerfully beat the foundation
of the house.  Mark could only see ErikaUs mighty leg muscles
and thighs, which loomed above him. From high overhead her
heard her fearsome roaring.  He cowered there, fearful that
ErikaUs feet might come closer.  She could now crush him with a
single foot, like a tiny bug.

He finally succeeded in breaking out of his trance and ran
through the ruins to the exit. Not a moment too soon, for a
second later the building collapsed into a heap with a huge
crash.  The ever-enlarging Erika smashed ever more ferociously
against the walls.  By now she had risen to a height of sixty
feet and was still growing.  Her muscles continued to
strengthen.  She became ever awesomer.  She was now the
largest creature on the surface of the Earth.


VII.

The wails of sirens came from far off, as her dramatic growth
and orgy of destruction had not gone unnoticed.  The streets
filled with people wanting to watch this spectacle. They didnUt
consider the danger that their proximity to a raging giantess
put them in.  Mark shouted to those standing nearby to warn
them.  But he himself could not more.  He was rooted to the stop
watching her, as his beloved Erika turned into a musclebound
giantess.

Meanwhile, the part of the house still standing reached only to
her hip and it was only a question of when the enormous woman
would complete its destruction. Then came a triumphant roar
from Erika, as the house collapsed under her mighty footsteps.

ErikaUs growing feet crunched onto the street.  She was now one
hundred feet tall.  The asphalt was like soft sand under her
enormous weight. Wide star-shaped cracks formed where her
feet stepped.   She and her musculature were still expanding.
Her legs were thick perfectly formed columns of muscle. Veins
coursed like rivers through these mountains of muscle.  With
every motion this unbelievable giantess unleashed new masses
of muscle and became more fearsome looking.  Now the crowds
began to grow afraid and drew back from her.

One man was unable to protect himself.  He stumbled and fell
with ErikaUs colossal left and right feet to either side of him. 
As he scurried back, he looked up in despair and saw the
giantess on high.  He cried out in terror and reflexively put up
his arm as a shield.  Erika glanced down at him contemptuously
and then raised her right foot.  She crushed the tiny man and
felt his bones shatter and the warm bloody flesh spread itself
thin across the sole of her foot.  Erika enjoyed the feeling and
greedily twisted her foot on the remains of the man.  Deep
inside herself she felt an inexplicable wave of excitement, a
remnant of her human understanding forcing its way through. 
But once again she fell back into the grip of animal instincts.

She shook her head wildly, threw her long hair and mighty arms
with their growing biceps.  Then she lowered her gaze to the
approaching police cars and fire trucks.  Her instinct told her
that these were the enemy and with thundering strides the
mighty giantess went to them.  Her weight cracking the street
under her, Erika crouched like a lioness and faced them.

VIII.
  
Sergeant Groner slammed on the brakes in his hurtling cruiser. 
He could not believe what he was seeing.  A titanic woman
stepped out in front of him. She lifted one colossal foot to
crush the tiny car beneath.  Groner stepped on the gas in a panic
and drove forward, just barely escaping death.

The policeman did not dare to turn around, but stopped, staring
straight ahead while hearing behind him the raging giantess.
Erika continued her growth, and her body was bursting all over
with muscles.  Despite her growth Erika was nimble.  She
dropped to one knee and with a single hand grabbed the cruiser
with the terrified policeman inside and lifted it up.  It was
childUs play for her, as she had by now reached a height of more
than three hundred feet.  

The carUs motor wailed away, since it suddenly had no
resistance from the ground and was using all its force to spin
the wheels futilely.  Groner was trapped inside the wagon,
battered by the carUs motion and screaming in panic as he
stared at ErikaUs wide eyes through the windshield.   The
giantess considered her find coldly and cruelly, as she held it
effortlessly in one hand.

RPlease....donUt kill me!  Let me live!S cried Sergeant Groner, his
face twisted with fear.  But her growth had left her with the
mind of a wild animal, and she understood not a word.  With
playful ease, as with a piece of aluminum foil, she tore the roof
off the car and plucked the minuscule man between thumb and
forefinger and lifted him from the driverUs seat.  He struggled
desperately, but though the terror of death gave him
superhuman strength it amounted to nothing compared to what
the mighty, womanly titaness was capable of.  She was
unstoppable, the muscles of her arm invincible.  Erika looked
curiously at the tiny fellow.  Something deep inside her mind
let her recognize her infinite superiority and power and she
thrilled to it.

The tiny man had given up, and now hung unmoving between her
fingers and stared at her gigantic face. She continued to expand.
The policeman seemed even tinier between ErikaUs ever-huger
fingers.  She accidentally squeezed the police car flat and
tossed the destroyed vehicle away.  It smashed into the crowd,
killing several people and injuring many others.  Groner now
begged only faintly for his life. He meekly and imploringly
kissed ErikaUs colossal thumb.  His hand swayed aimlessly over
the skin of her finger. He somehow believed this would put the
giantess in a favorable mood.  But he did not know that she had
turned into a cruel and pitiless creature.

Then the muscular giantess mercilessly pressed her fingers
together.  With unbelievable power she squeezed the laughably
small body of the man.  She watched pitilessly as GronerUs head
jerked spasmodically and blood and guts sputtered out.  With
almost childlike amazement she watched the body in her
fingers turn into a bloody pulp.  For her it was a scarcely
perceptible effort.  Erika grunted, partly surprised, partly
satisfied, and put both fingers in her mouth and licked them. 
Then she swallowed the warm bloody flesh of the tiny dead
policeman.

IX.

She let out a cry and began moving.  Many onlookers fell under
her awesome feet and were crushed.  Escape was impossible;
all the streets were jammed.  Thousands attempted to get away
in cars or on foot and this disordered motion caused such
crowds it unavoidably led to chaos.  Erika had by now reached
the fantastic height of one thousand feet.  

She lifted her right foot straight up.  She was curious about
how it would feel when she pressed the gigantic foot down in
the middle of the crowd.  As her foot slowly descended, she felt
a faint tickle on the sole of her foot.  That was all. Hundreds of
bodies snapped under her weight. Mercilessly the gigantic Erika
crushed the doomed souls.   For her they were insects, little
more than termites.  She felt her sole grow moist.  The blood of
hundreds wet her skin.  She felt their warm flesh underneath
her.  She crushed her foot down all the way, but the people
underneath could feel it no more.  Pitilessly her raised her
other foot and again hundreds died as Erika crushed them.  One
man was caught completely beneath her little toe, which was
more than enough to squash him to death.

She slowly took one step after another and drove the crowds
fleeing before her.  In less than a minute she killed thousands. 
And she walked on, each step crushing countless people. They
perished under the immense feet of a now nearly
1400-foot-tall giantess.  Many-story houses reached only to
her the ankle of her amazingly thick muscular legs.  Each leg
could destroy an entire block of houses.  ErikaUs immense
weight was such that with each step she took the ground
shuddered, so that seismographs two thousand miles away
detected it. 

Her shadow fell ominously on a group of men which included
Mark Altenstein.  They could flee no farther; the wall of a house
blocked their way.  Erika, the inconceivable giantess, stood
there and looked far below her.  Mark and the others stared up. 
Gigantic and threatening, her muscled leg loomed in the sky
above them and compared to it all else seemed tiny and
insignificant.  The giantess shifted her weight several times
from one foot to the other and each time her leg muscles
thrummed and showed off their might.

ErikaUs cold stare held the tiny people fast and they could not
move, as she lifted her giant foot above them, threatening to
crush them.  Suddenly she paused, as her eagle-sharp eye caught
sight of Mark.  Something inside her held Erika back.  She  didnUt
know what it was, but she could not kill him. She still held her
foot over the people.  But she did not crush them.
RYes, Erika, itUs me.  Do you recognize me?S murmured Mark, and
as though she had heard she lowered her foot at placed it
directly over Mark, who, encouraged by her behavior, had pulled
away from the crowd and moved toward her.  RI canUt believe
how big you areS,  said Altenstein, Rand growing all the time.S 
In the meantime, while Erika stood uncertainly before the
crowd, she continued to grow.  She was over 1700 feet tall. 
Mark came ever closer to her and reached her unbelievably huge
toe.  

"I can walk under your big toe!"  he gasped.  Her gigantic toe
was as large as a city bu, and was, like the rest of Erika,
growing larger.  Even now Mark loved this woman.  Even though
he was as small as an ant compared to her.  Even though she had
become a colossal mountain of feminine muscle, whose
unbelievably thick, muscle-packed leg towered threateningly
above him.  

Mark went farther, disappearing under her big toe, whose
vaulted underside rose so immensely that he could stand
upright beneath it.  Then the scientist cried out.  He had never
before felt so puny, and his smallness next to this now
1800-foot-tall giantess, who had once been his beloved, made
him sink to his knees in despair.  But Erika could not see this
gesture.  He no longer existed in ErikaUs mind, and she could no
longer see him for who he was.  He was just a microscopic
bacterium in human form to this merciless giantess.

He was no longer alive to her.  Though Erika had pulled a tender
feeling for him from the remnant of her humanity, it had by now
sank back into the mist of instinct that her animal nature
created.  The giantess had once again forgotten about Mark, and
she lifted her merciless foot with renewed vigor.  It was the
foot under whose big toe the termite-sized Altenstein stood.

X.

Mark cried out. This was the end, he thought, and watched
helplessly as she raised her mighty foot high.  An instant later
it thundered down, and Mark tried to avoid looking at it.  In a
few seconds Erika would crush hundreds of others with the
same foot that killed her partner and lover.  He watched as the
wrinkled, soiled sole came ever nearer, heard the terrified
cries of the others and felt a spasming pain as brief as a needle
jab, and, as millions of tons of ErikaUs immense weight crashed
down on him, was no more.

The mighty giantess continued on her way, with thundering
footsteps.  Her powerful feet filled the entire width of the tiny
street.  No building in the city reached even as high as her
knees.  Most were ankle-high or smaller to her.  She crushed
buildings and the bodies of hundreds obliviously.  

It was now exactly an hour since her growth had begun, and she
had already reached a height of 2700 feet.  Erika bent deeply
down, inquisitively plucked a ten-story apartment building
with her thumb and forefinger.  She had already pulverized
scores of such buildings, but for some reason she wished to
inspect this one more closely.  She effortlessly tore the
structure from its foundation and carefully raised it to her
face.  It was tinier than her colossal index finger and Erika had
to be extremely careful not to crush it between her
unbelievably powerful fingers.
She scrutinized the apartment with her immense eyes.  Erika
scarcely noticed the minuscule people, a sixth of an inch tall to
her.  Her animal mind saw the tiny figures as utterly
insignificant; indeed, the entire building was uninteresting to
the giantess.  The last sight the tiny victims had was of the
buildingUs walls exploding inward as she crushed the
apartment, and all inside, between two of her huge fingers. 
Erika let the ruins fall carelessly and trampled on across the
city.

She glanced down from a height of more than three thousand
feet at the sea of houses below.  With one step she crushed an
entire city block, killing thousands.  Erika could no longer even
sense the buildings she was flattening; they were simply too
small for her. In a matter of minutes the entire city was
destroyed, and Erika still had nearly half an hour of growth to
come.  Nothing remained intact in the broken city.  Everything
was destroyed, by a giantess beyond all conception.  Millions of
people, thousands of buildings, streets, cars.  There was
nothing left.  And still the giantess grew.

XI.

After the city had been eradicated, Erika turned her
earth-shattering self countrywards.  She ignored nothing, all in
her path was destroyed.  The entire Earth felt her.  Nothing and
no one could halt her.  The woman followed a narrow gray line
that stretched westward to the horizon.  On this line were
threaded little dots, like a string of pearls before her.  These
little dots were in actuality many thousands of cars full of
people fleeing this walking cataclysm.  But they had no chance
and their deaths followed quickly.  ErikaUs foot sank deep into
the Earth with each step and crushed metal and flesh with the
brutal indifference of a giantess so vast that other beings did
not exist to her.  

Only four minutes later, Erika was ten miles tall.  Her head
extended to the upper reaches of the atmosphere.  Far below all
life was perishing under her unimaginably gigantic feet.

Another two minutes, and she had reached a height of thirty
miles.  Her rate of growth had exploded, as did entire cities
beneath her.  The air was scarcely sufficient for her to breathe. 
She was walking with much of her body in outer space.  

Within another 10 minutes, the Earth was merely a
grapefruit-sized ball to her. And still she expanded, with an
ever increasing rate of growth.  Not understanding why, she
began to lose consciousness.  Then it was over.  ErikaUs last
action was to crush an entire planet.  With her last motion, she
grasped the Earth, for her the size of an apple, and with one
last twitch of her godlike arm muscles, she squeezed the little
planet.  Humanity died, crushed in the fist of an unbelievable
giantess.

Then Erika orbited in the reigning blackness of the everlasting
night....