Fast

Eric had never had to work a day in his life before. He had grown up rich and inherited a company. Even when it felt like he was making decisions, they were corrected and modified by a hundred analysts. The money kept flowing, and life was good. That is until one day when he woke up inside the body a woman working a minimum wage job at a fast food place. He assumed it would at least be easy.

It wasn’t.

There were a lot of different things to learn; things could get chaotic; the oil from the fryers felt like it covered his entire body by the end of the day. There were people shouting at him over the smallest mistakes, and it just sucked.

All he could think about was how to get his old life back.

Gaslit

Weight, Don't Tell Me.

When the Great Shift happened and I found myself in this body, I told myself that I was going to take good care of it. Then I slipped into old habits of fast food, frozen pizza, and a general lack of exercise. And I soon found that my new body gained weight much more easily than my old one. Couple that with the fact that my new body was female instead of male, I felt pressured to lose the weight.

I started to look at the fresh produce in the grocery store, but the thought of cooking and preparing meals seemed daunting. I wondered if I could eat those Weight Watcher means -- though they ended up tasting gross.

I couldn’t help but think I may end up overweight no matter what body I wound up in...

Explain

Albert watched the City fade into suburbs as his commuter rail travelled north. His wife was certainly going to be surprised to see him like this. He had thought about texting her to prepare her for the shock, but what was he going to say?

“Sorry. Accident at work. Now inside the body of our 21 year old female intern.”

He still didn’t believe it himself, and he was living the experience! He shifted in the seat as the conductor checked his ticket; this usually meant there was only one more stop until his station. Then he’d drive home, and at that point, he’d have to explain this mess.

He wasn’t looking forward to it.

Survive

There were still some thoughts running through David’s head, even if he could only make grunts and had the desire to feast on brains like everyone else affected by this virus -- though his story was quite different.

It started fifty years ago during a fertility emergency when the government mandated many men to have their gender changed. For over a decade he was forced to give birth to babies that were handed out to others. As his own body began to age, many of his parts were replaced with artificial android ones to extend his child-bearing years.

Then the virus came. That’s what turned people into zombies like in the movies. David’s human parts were susceptible to it, but his android parts allowed him to continue having human thoughts despite his monstrous behavior. It meant that unlike other zombies, he could be patient and he could plan. Others would walk aimlessly to their doom, but David survived -- just like he always had.