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....

Sit. Stay. Swap.

Big

Had Mia’s butt always been this big? It couldn’t have gotten bigger since they swapped bodies, right? That would be impossible -- then again, a day ago, Grant probably would’ve said swapping bodies was impossible. He decided to brush it off as he got out of bed, telling himself that it was just his new perspective which made it appear bigger than he recalled.

Going through Mia’s wardrobe to get dressed for the day ended up being another reminder of just how big Mia’s back side was. Squeezing all of this into a pair of tight jeans felt like a bad idea, but what were his choices? A skirt? Stretchy yoga pants?

His final decision was just to meet up with Mia wearing the same sweatpants he had slept in. Maybe they could figure out a way to reverse this swap sooner rather than later...