So Do I

“I feel like people look at me as if I’m a piece of meat,” Ned sighed from inside Layla’s body.

“Yeah, it has a downside,” Layla replied.

“I can’t believe you’re actually happy about being in my body. It’s nerdy and short and awkward and...”

“And you’re in my tall, beautiful, statuesque body, yet you don’t seem to be happy about it.”

“It doesn’t make any sense, does it? I mean, you have like the perfect female body, and I’m still not happy. Maybe it’s just the way people at this convention hall are...”

“Nope. Seriously, beautiful women get treated like this everywhere. Trust me. I know.”

“And now, so do I...”

Disturbia (Part 2)

View Part 1 of Disturbia.

Patrick arrived back at Cheryl’s suburban home to a very unpleasant surprise -- her husband had arrived home early from his business trip. He seemed friendly enough at first, but as the night went on, it got creepier.

He supposed the questions started out innocently enough. Her husband asked Patrick about why he hadn’t changed out of his work clothes, and Patrick had hoped he wouldn’t have to. He had planned to sleep in Cheryl’s clothes and go back to work the next morning wearing the exact same thing. With her husband around, that might be a more challenging plan. Then he started to get all handsy; it was making Patrick very uncomfortable, even as he kept telling himself that this guy just thought he was being friendly with his wife.

Patrick began to wonder if he should tell Cheryl’s husband what was up. Sure, it would ruin everyone’s bonus, but someone else was likely to fess up as well, right? He wouldn’t be the only one? And even if he was, the cost might be worth it to get this guy’s hands off of him.

Man to Catgirl

Talk About It

“It was supposed to be easy for us, wasn’t it?” Eric lamented, “At least compared to what everyone else is going through. So why does it feel like everything is falling apart between us?”

Before the Great Shift, Eric and Sue were an average married couple in their 50s with their one kid already off at college. They swapped with each other -- one of the more basic swaps and one of the types of swaps that generally caused minimal disruption and drama between those swapped.

But things weren’t working well for Eric and Sue. Neither of them could place why. Something about being in each other’s bodies just didn’t feel right for either of them -- and their relationship became strained because of it. But how to move forward? Should they just sort of let it roll? Stay together despite the awkwardness and the discomfort. Eric wasn’t sure, but he needed to at least talk about it...

Nogged

Ethan downed another egg nog at the holiday party. He was still in disbelief about the fact that he had swapped bodies with Shelby. It didn’t even seem possible, and no one else seemed to be in a similiar situation.

When he asked a co-worker about it, they just shouted, “Someone needs to cut off, Shelby! She’s been drinking too much!”

Of course, the other piece that was missing was his own body. He hadn’t seen Shelby in his body anywhere since he ended up in hers. She’d actually be able to confirm the story, right? Of course, he was also worried that she might not want to be found for a reason. Could she have had some sort of plan to steal his body all along?