More Often

I always used to think high heels on women were hot, and I wondered why they didn’t wear them all the time. My perspective on this immediately changed after swapping bodies with one.

After an accident at work, I had become Moon -- an Asian woman with a somewhat frumpy fashion sense. I told myself I’d be ditching her ballet flats for a pair of heels the next day.

I regretted the choice almost instantly, but still not quick enough.

I thought the initial pain would be temporary, that’d I’d adjust to the feeling in no time. By lunch, I felt like my feet were just two gigantic blisters on the end of my legs.

And somehow I understood...no more high heels for me! Of course, just because I came to that realization, it did NOT give me my body back...

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.