Old Bones

Svetlana had been sore ever since her performance yesterday, which was never great for her since she worked as a contortionist at the circus. Still, she thought she’d be better after a day of rest; however, when she woke up the next morning, her back was even more sore than the night before.

As she sat backstage, holding her sore back, a pudgy middle aged woman entered. She spoke in a soft voice, “I believe I have something that might belong to you,” and then proceeded to lift herself into a pose Svetlana couldn’t imagine doing right now.

The older woman continued, “I was at the show yesterday. I remembered being jealous, and as I was leaving I saw a strange blue light out of the corner of my eye. I felt more spry, but I couldn’t place why until I found myself moving in impossible ways this morning. I believe I have your contortionist ability.”

Svetlana put her hand on her side. Something inside her knew it was true. It explained the pains; she had the aching bones of a middle age woman now for some reason.

Paper Constellations

Out of all the music videos I've done, this is still probably one of my favorites. I re-uploaded to Tiktok because the album is out NOW!

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7mL02sZ34T9MLKyb97dJUL
And AppleMusic: https://music.apple.com/us/album/시프트/6777472553

@bodyswapshift S41FT (시프트) - "Paper Constellations" | Official Music Video #braintransplant #bodyswap #musicvideo #tgtf #mtftransformation #tg #mtf ♬ original sound - Alicia Shift

Subway Take

The subway rumbled along the tracks, and I suddenly lost my footing an had to grab onto one of the nearby poles. Of course, this was odd since I had been sitting down at the time. Now, it seemed, I was suddenly standing. And, it also seemed, that my body was no longer my own.

Instead, I now inhabited the body of a Hispanic woman. I felt so self-conscious about it, and I thought everyone was looking at me.

Of course, I soon leaned it was all in my head, and everyone was more concerned about their own body swap than a man inside the body of a woman about to fall on his own behind.

Reading and Research

It was a question I had been asking myself ever since I swapped bodies with Caroline -- why was she even in college? She didn’t seem to care much about reading or researching how or why we could’ve swapped bodies, leaving all the work to me. She did, however, seem greatly concerned with how I was choosing to dress her body while we were swapped. I still couldn’t believe that was more worried about that than finding a solution.

Several months later, I was still looking for answers; she was failing all my classes in my male body. However, at this point I was beginning to think I would be spending the rest of my life s Caroline, and I was starting to think I would have to get used to it. At least she no longer picked out the clothes I would wear each day, and I could go to the library in something comfortable....

Pretend

Martin had just dropped his kid off at daycare and was alone with his thoughts for the day. He felt like a fraud. This wasn’t his life; this wasn’t his body; that wasn’t even his kid that he just dropped off. Because of the Great Shift, he had swapped into the body of a young mother, and he just didn’t have the heart to tell the kid the truth. And so he just picked up her life; he pretended to be unswapped.

He had his doubts about the woman’s husband, who was also claiming to be unswapped -- and even the kid sometimes. He thought they were both just pretending, just like him. But it’s not like he was going to be forthcoming with the truth of who he was anytime soon, so why should they? Until that point, he guessed they’d all just continue to pretend to be the family they appeared to be....