Great Escape

Harold had gotten into some deep debt with a lot of bad people. For the sake of his research, he knew it was worth it. If his experiment was a success, he’d be able to cheat death -- and given he wasn’t going to be able to repay many of those loans, this was something that was sure to come in handy.

He always knew it was possible that they’d come after him, but he still never saw it coming. Fortunately, his tech was rather passive; it just needed a warm body nearby, and it would automatically trigger by slipping his consciousness into that other body.

As his brain started to take hold in his new form, Harold guessed he’d end up in the body of the coroner or maybe a police officer. And while he was certainly in a coroner’s office, there was no way he was in the body of the coroner! Sure, it was possible this hot woman had that job, but she just wasn’t dressed for the part. They wore medical scrubs, and this woman wearing high heels and tight leather pants. He guessed she wasn’t an officer either.

But just what was she doing in here? He also wondered why his device hadn’t activated earlier. One thing was for sure, he was glad to escape from his debt...

Confrontation

“You’re totally ruining my image, ya know?” Gene recognized the voice behind him. It was his voice -- or at least it used to be.

He tried to ignore it and just keep walking, but the voice continued, “You could try a skirt once and a while. Or maybe some heels? At least ditch the glasses and use my contacts! Your know you have absolutely ruined my reputation!”

Gene finally stopped and turned to see Anh standing there with his former body. She was wearing a pink croptop and plaid pants. It had been about a month since the studious Gene had swapped with the once popular Anh.

“You ruined mine too!” He snapped back.

“What reputation? You were a dork who no one cared about; at least people notice your body now!”

“You’ve made all my former friend think I’m gay!”

“If they’re so concerned with your sexuality, then maybe it’s better you’re no longer friends with those homophobes.”

He supposed she did have a point. If she had just left it at that, he probably would’ve felt completely ashamed, but she kept going.

“Do you think my old friends even want to come within 100 feet of your dorky body?” She added, “But I’m sure they’d think you turned me into a nerdy lesbian or something too!”

And with that, Anh lost her moral high ground, and Gene started to walk away again as she just kept shouting more at him.

Forgot Your Robe

“Jim! Jim!” It was his wife’s voice, or rather, what his wife’s voice will be for the next two weeks. He turned to look, hunched over with a lack of confidence, not quite befitting the gorgeous body he’d be stuck in for the same amount of time.

“You forgot your robe,” She said trying to hand him the white terricloth just as he stepped into the pool.

“I’m not wearing that in the pool. It’ll be too heavy to swim.” Jim reasoned.

“Yes, well, um,” His wife was clearly hesitating before she finally spit out, “You know I don’t like you looking at other women’s bodies.”

Jim sighed, “Whether I like it or not, I’m going to be stuck in this woman’s body for the next two weeks. Looking at it is going to be unavoidable. I’m going to use the bathroom, and shower, and even just getting ready.”

His wife knew he was right. She still wasn’t comfortable with this.

Duets

Katie always had a crush on her friend Jason. So when he brought a girlfriend that he introduced as Audrey to their friend group’s karaoke night, she was devastated. But she told herself the relationship was new, and maybe it could fall apart on its own in quick order. Or maybe she could drive a wedge between them.

Duets weren’t uncommon on karaoke night, and she kept asking Jason to do ones with her. He agreed without questioning or thinking about her motivations. It was probably about their fifth song together when the flash of light happened. At first they thought it was the television, but everyone soon started discovering they had swapped bodies.

Katie was among the first when she brushed some blonde hair out her face as she realized she was now in Audrey’s body. Not realizing she wasn’t the only one, she took the opportunity to give what she thought was Jason a big kiss on the lips.

Jason still had a microphone in his hand, but he screamed at the sight of his own body kissing his girlfriend and realizing he was now in Katie’s body. The now high pitch voice amplified by the microphone caused everyone to cover their ears, “What the hell!? That’s my body!”

It took Katie a moment to realize her former body wasn’t referring to herself. “Jason?” She asked her own body.

“Sorry, dude, your girlfriend is hot. I’m not gonna say no.” Both Jason and Katie realized it was their friend Ethan inside of Jason’s body.

“I’m his girlfriend,” The muscular bartender holding two beers in his hands said.

“Then who are you?” Jason asked Katie.

“Katie,” She quietly confessed from inside Audrey’s body.

“But why...” Jason thought about his own question, the way she had been acting all night, and even about hints in the past. He suddenly realized Katie’s crush on him. He realized they all had bigger problems right now, so he added, “We can talk about it later...”

The Curse of Misogyny

Marissa always hated when he husband went out drinking after work, and she hated it even more when he didn’t come home until the AM hours. She had intended to give him a lecture about it the next morning, but once he came downstairs, she realized she had a lot of different questions to ask him.

For starters, she usually would have to look up when lecturing him, but now they were eye-to-eye. He had somehow lost a significant amount of height. Then there was the outline of breasts clearly now on his chest. And, if she was not mistaken, his body was even developing distinctive feminine curves as well.

Instead of a lecture, the only thing Marissa could ask was, “What the hell happened to you?”

Her husband sighed. He knew he had to confess. “There was this witch. She cursed us all. And any time we are inappropriate or misogynistic with women, we become more and more feminine, slowly transforming into women. Dimitri had completely transformed by the end of the night.” He left out the part where he was the one who hit on the witch that caused them all too get cursed.

Marissa, of course, knew her husband well enough. She knew what he was like. Given the nature of the curse, she was actually surprised he wasn’t further along. Instead of being mad, she just looked at him and said, “I’m sure you will be caught up to Dimitri by the end of the day.”