Adopted

Neil looked up as his younger sister, Lea, with scorn. “What the hell did you do?” He asked in a voice that sounded far too cute to be saying ‘hell.’

“I swapped our bodies,” She replied.

“But why?! You never seemed upset by who you are or your body. Heck, you clearly like your gender with all the dresses and pink -- neither which am I too happy with right now, by the way.”

Lea sighed, “Because even after 25 years, I still feel like an outsider in this family. Being adopted sucks. I just want to go through one family holiday as you, okay? Just please go along with it, okay? Also, I kind of like being in your tall body. Towering almost seven feet is amazing! At least compared to my usual 5 foot 2.”

“Okay. Fine. But once the holiday is over, you are swapping us back, okay? Promise?”

Body Swap Chronicles: Strangers Edition

The Threat

I hadn’t had any time to process why I was lying on the street or even why I was outside before I felt someone violently grabbing my arm, trying to pull me to my feet.

“Give it back!” I heard a gruff voice shout at me. I looked up to see an obviously homeless man firmly holding my arm as he continued to shout, “Give me my body back now!”

I thought he was just crazy at first, but I looked at the arm he held in his hands. It was slender and feminine. It was attached to me, but it certainly wasn’t mine. The rants may have sounded crazy, but I was in the body of a woman -- and I could only guess she was in the body of the homeless man.

Of course, there was no way anyone watching would know this. They just saw what looked to be a young woman threatened by a homeless man. And I would’ve liked to have figured this out calmly, but I wasn’t exactly upset when a punch from a savior to the homeless person’s face freed me from his grasp.

Don't You Work in IT?

“Don’t you work in IT, Johnny? Can’t you fix this!?” Anna pleaded, who was somehow fused into one body with their co-worker, Hao.

Johnny tried to explain. “I work in software. I don’t know anything about biology or whatever happened here. I didn’t even know this lab existed off the server room until I heard your screams.”

Anna pouted. “But he used a computer to do this! And you know computers!”

“I understand you don’t know,” Hao reasoned, “But surely someone must know what was being done down here.”

“I mean, I don’t even know where the unused parts of your bodies are. I certainly wouldn’t know how to undo or re-attach anything. But I guess I can ask around...”

Office Environment

Roger had spent the last few days wondering about the new body he ended up in as a result of the Great Shift. He hadn’t been able to get in touch with her, so the only information about he knew were externally visible -- like the pink hair and tattoos all over her body. For a mild mannered, middle aged accountant like him, it felt a little much.

He had hoped going back to the office would give him a sense of normalcy, but it only proved to make him feel more awkward. Even wearing some of his wife’s work clothes, he felt like a fish out of water with this body in an office environment. She just didn’t seem like she belonged here, which made him feel like he didn’t belong here...but what choice did he have? He needed to get on with his life...