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...

Dumbest

Verona was probably the dumbest woman Professor Barnes had ever had in his class. He knew he’d let her squeak by with a D even if she didn’t deserve it since because her father was one of the university’s biggest donors. It was easy to forget she was in the class at all, considering how often she skipped.

She was there for the final, and he could see her struggling as he clock ticked down. She was working until the final second, and in that final second, the truly unpredictable happened -- though it would be a global phenomenon that no one would soon forget -- The Great Shift.

Professor Barnes now found himself swapped into Verona’s body. It seemed so strange to be young again and even stranger to be female now. But he also knew this was going to be a real challenge. Verona’s father would likely be quite unpleased that someone else was now in his daughter’s body, but all his power and money didn’t immediately solve the problem nor reverse the body swap. But he was sure it could be enough to make his life in this body miserable if he didn’t tread carefully.

Document It

“Could you please turn that camera off!” Anthony sighed.

“Come on, Dude, we should document this,” Lewis pleaded, “I mean, you just experienced the first cross-gender body swap in history.”

“Not by choice,” Anthony interjected.

“But people are going to want to know what it’s like. Maybe it could helpful to trans people or something.”

“But I’m not trans. Or I wasn’t. I shouldn’t be a woman right now...I just am. If people want to know what it’s like to be a woman...maybe just ask one? Please just turn it off. Okay?”

Missed Connections

New Jersey (Part 2)

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Darnell waited several hours for the train to arrive. It didn’t. It made sense. After all, if everyone had swapped bodies that included the conductors and ticket takers. It was probably chaos. Meanwhile, almost everyone who had been at the station when this whole body swapping thing happened had left.

As it seemed, it looked like he’d be spending the night in this body...and in New Jersey! He hoped this big purse had a set of car keys in it, and that this woman was parked in the commuter lot -- he imagined hailing a taxi right now would be even more annoying than waiting for this train. He hoped she had some sort of ID in the purse, too; hotels probably wouldn’t be an option either.<./p>