The City That Would Eat The World by Ambrose Bierce
A darkly comic allegory in which a ravenous metropolis expands by swallowing neighboring towns, nations, and even the lives of its citizens; its insatiable appetite stands for unchecked greed, industrial and imperial ambition, and the moral decay that accompanies relentless expansion, ultimately exposing how such voracity leads to ruin.
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