Reconfirm

The body swapping machine hadn’t quite been perfected yet. After Doug and Gwen swapped bodies, they should’ve been able to swap back right away, but a few busted parts prevented that. As a result, they were going to be stuck as each other for at least a week. To keep the machine a secret, they agreed to pretend to be each other for that time. Doug had thought it would be easy, but after being hit on several times at a bar, he felt his masculinity threatened. On top of that, Gwen’s hormones were really messing with him. He needed to do something to confirm who he really was. He looked around and planted a big kiss on the cutest blond he could find. He felt like his masculinity had been reconfirmed, but he had just made a giant whole in the whole “pretending to be Gwen for a week” effort.

Large

Mark was sure he had to be dreaming. There was no way he could’ve become a woman instantaneously. Even if he had, these breasts didn’t even look anywhere close to real -- or, for that matter, even possible. Yet as he took off the sweater to reveal the giant orbs and then giving them a giant squeeze, it sure felt like they were real. The nice, pleasurable shock that tingled through his body as he gave the squeeze told him that he wasn’t dreaming either. Of course, he had so many questions. How did this happen? Whose body was this? How long was he going to be stuck like this? Where was his own body?

Minimum Wage

James grumbled as he handed a coffee to another smiling customer. Two days ago, he was in charge of this company, now he was stuck in the body of a minimum wage worker. It all started when he made some comments on a talk show, attempting to quash his workers’ demands for higher wages. One of those silly liberal groups heard it and pressured him to go undercover for a week. His PR and marketing departments thought it was a great idea, and he reluctantly agreed. Of course, he thought going undercover would involve some sort of disguise, he didn’t expect to actually swap bodies with one of his workers -- and a female one on top of it all! He wouldn’t be able to just take off this disguise at the end of the day, he was stuck in her life completely for two whole weeks. He wondered why he ever agreed to this, and wondered if there was any way he could get out of it. He didn’t want to be in this woman’s body for another second!

Giddy

Eugene was giddy as he looked at his reflection in the water. The spell had worked, and it was clear that he managed to steal Lisa’s body. The odd thing was that he actually didn’t feel all that different -- it was one of the lingering effects of the spell, so people didn’t get too shocked to suddenly be in a new body. For a moment he wondered if Lisa had even noticed she was now in his body, and how she might be reacting or what she was doing. Then he realized he didn’t much care. She could do whatever she wanted with his old body, it was hers now. And Lisa’s body was now his! He was so excited!

Parts

Paul couldn’t believe it. The parts he had ordered months ago had finally arrived. They were essential for fixing his body swapping machine. Of course, he would’ve been more excited if they had arrived quickly instead of being on back order for so long. In fact, while waiting for them to arrive, he had gotten quite used to being in Natalie’s body. As he sat on the box, he wondered if he even wanted to bother trying to repair it at all. He really had no desire to switch back, and he wondered if the world really needed all the chaos a body swapping machine could cause. He thought about lying to Natalie, and not telling her that the parts arrived. He’d need somewhere to hide them, but if he stuffed them in a corner of his garage, she’d likely never even be able to guess what they were.

Rural

Zeke lived and worked on an isolated farm. He usually only ever interacted with people on the days a driver came to pick up his crops or when he went to market. Usually, he interacted with other men, and the few women he met were often farmers themselves. It was odd when the young woman arrived on his farm. She was merely lost and looking for directions, but Zeke had never seen anyone like her before. For starters, she was so feminine. It seemed like she was from the city as well. Zeke was also pretty sure he had never met anyone who was Chinese before. He was courteous as he gave her directions; she seemed just a little uncomfortable walking through the muddy grass in her heels and seeing old cars and farm equipment around. Zeke tried to put her at ease as a flash hit them both. Neither knew at the time what the Great Shift was, but they were immediately aware of its effects. Zeke found that he was now the one struggling in heels as he stood on muddy grass, seeing his own body sitting on the porch. His biggest concern was how he was going to get anything done with this body. It felt so dainty, like it could break in half simply from working the tractor.

Drunk

After downing six beers at the bar, Theo knew he was drunk, but he didn’t realize exactly how drunk he was until he went to the bathroom. Upon reaching into his pants, he struggled to find what he needed to in order to do his business. He couldn’t believe he had so much to make such a simple task so difficult. Of course, in his inebriated state, he hadn’t yet figured out the root cause of his difficult, which was that he had swapped bodies with one of the women he had hit on earlier in the night. He couldn’t find anything because there was nothing to find. After quite a long search, it finally dawned on Theo when another person came in next to him to break the news. He told himself that none of this could be real, it had to be his drunk mind playing tricks on him, but he never remembered anything like this when he had been drunk before...

Leather

Puja felt a moment of discomfort when meeting the man who swapped into her body as a result of the Great Shift. She had quite quite as peace with the whole idea of swapping, clinging to her Hindi faith as a means of coping, telling herself the Shift was like early reincarnation. However, when she saw her former body dressed completely in leather, she wanted to throw up. Kevin didn’t see what the big deal was. He didn’t know anything about Puja’s faith; he just knew his new body looked great and wanted dress in a way that made it look even better. It never occurred to him that Puja was Hindi or that cows were sacred to her. As he walked toward her to make a casual greeting, she ran, being unable to cope with this situation. Kevin thought he understood, thinking it must be quite difficult to see one’s former body. Of course, Kevin was quite clueless as to what was really going on in Puja’s mind. He may have had her body, but that was very far from truly understanding someone.

Weird

“Weird? What makes you think I’m doing weird things with your body? I’ve just been sitting here, minding my own business and watching some TV,” Seth told Miko, “Besides you caused this body swap with that damned medallion. We can’t swap back until you come home from my work.”

Of course, Seth had been doing all sorts of weird things with Miko’s body while she was away at his job. The latest was getting dressed up in a maids outfit and playing out a little fantasy in his mind. With a few hours left in the day, he still had plenty of other things he wanted to try out before Miko returned home with the Medallion of Zulu and swapped them back to their own bodies.

Transplanted (Part 7)

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Andre decided to try out the life of the body he was now in. He was discharged and began his life as Noelle Artus. He tried his best to adapt to living her life, but he soon decided to make several changed. The first thing he decided to do was break off her engagement; he just wasn’t ready for that. It was a little while before he had trouble with her work -- eventually leading him to quit. The only element he ended up keeping up was Noelle’s relationship with her family. There was just something about the thought of making them lose their daughter that he just couldn’t do, so he kept up appearances. But he was doing it on his terms...

Transplanted (Part 6)

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It was a lot for Andre to take in. He wouldn’t be able to tell anyone he was still alive, not his girlfriend, not even his mom and dad. At the same time, he was going to have to embrace this woman’s life. Of course, he could cut off ties. He could break up with the fiancee she had; he could quit her job; he could shut out this woman’s family as well. Dr. Wong told Andre that they could always find him a job at the hospital; he could start a brand new life from there. As he thought about the pain his family must be feeling, he wondered if it would be fair to enact that same pain on this woman’s family. Maybe he’d try to live her life, at least for a while...

Transplanted (Part 5)

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Andre did a few more sessions on his own before Dr. Wong finally returned one day. She stopped him before he started hitting up some of the equipment and stood him in front of a mirror. As he stared at his body, she started talking about how this was who he was now...

“I know,” Andre replied, “It’s just going to be hard to tell my friends and family.”

Dr. Wong sighed, “That’s the problem, Andre. You won’t be able to. This procedure was experimental and secret. You aren’t going to be able to tell anyone about it, not even your family. This woman you are now, this is your body. This is your life. Your physical therapy is done, but over the next few days, we need to teach you about your new life, about who you are now. Then you will finally be able to leave...if you want to.”

Transplanted (Part 4)

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Andre estimated that it had been a couple months now since the transplant -- he had actually lost track. It was his first time in the gym without Dr. Wong. He was doing so well; he didn’t need her constant encouragement or help anymore. He was sure his new body hadn’t rejected his brain at this point. He wondered when this whole physical therapy thing was going to be over. Heck, he even was still staying at the hospital. He began to wonder about when he would finally be considered well enough to be able to go home.

Transplanted (Part 3)

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A few weeks later and Andre’s physical therapy was going great. He could run, lift, stretch, and so on. Of course, with his improvements in ability also meant he was becoming more and more aware of his new body. He couldn’t help but think about how glad he was that it had been such a gradual realization. From the numbness he felt to full awareness he was now experiencing. It gave him time to adjust to being female. It was hard for him to even think about his old body; it all felt like a distant memory.

Transplanted (Part 2)

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Andre was eager to get to work, but he didn’t even get to do anything but look around on the first day. Then several more days passed, and he hadn’t even been brought back to the gym. Then after resting one day, he woke up on a mat with the gym ceiling above him. Dr. Wong was there, telling him to sit up. He hadn’t really thought about it, but ever since his brain had been transplanted into this body, someone had helped him stand up. Even if it was to go to the bathroom. Dr. Wong was asking to stand up on his own for the first time. It was more difficult than Andre had imagined. She assured him; he could do it, but that it would be a challenge for his new nerve endings. For about a half an hour, he struggled. Then, with a little more effort, he pushed himself up to his feet. For a few moments, he felt like he was going to fall right back down, but he soon got his bearings. If this was how tough standing up was, he was a little nervous about what would be coming soon after.

Transplanted (Part 1)

“...And how do you feel today, Mr. Franz?” Dr. Wong asked.

“Still really weird,” Andre answered, “I’m still coming to terms with the fact that I am a woman now, but I don’t really feel it. I feel numb. I just can’t believe this body is mine when I look in the mirror.”

“Some of the numbness is due to the transplant. Your brain still needs to learn how to communicate with this body and its nervous system. That’s why we brought you to this gym for the next step, which will be physical therapy. As you workout, the new signals should hopefully strengthen the connections. We did what we could to give you a new lease on life; from here, it’s going to be mostly up to you. We will be able to help, but it will ultimately be up to you . Without proper stimuli, there is a risk that body will reject your brain. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Let Me Finish

“Are we done yet?” Joshua groaned.

“You know most people would be happy,” Rodrigo replied pausing from photographing Joshua, “Before the Great Shift, you had a pretty tough life. You were working at a minimum wage job that was killing you. Now you are in the body of a super model and getting paid lots of money for me to snap photos of you. Do you think I am happy being a woman after the Shift? No, but I’m not whining about things every five seconds. Now just sit there and let me finish.”

I Do

It had been a strange accident at work that caused Walter to swap bodies with his co-worker Jamie. Management didn’t want any word of the swapping device to leak, so they offered both Walter and Jamie ten million dollars to pretend to be each other until they could fix the device to swap back. Walter didn’t think it was going to be that hard -- that is until he found out Jamie had her wedding coming up. The next week, he couldn’t believe he was standing in a church, wearing a very uncomfortable white dress about to marry a guy. As he thought about what was going to happen that night, he seriously wondered why he was going through with all this. Then he reminded himself about the ten million dollars before faking a loving look and saying, “I do.”

Subway Swap

Ivana looked on in horror as the subway doors shut in front of her face. This wasn’t her stop, she didn’t even remember getting out of the train, and why was her body still sitting there? The body she had now when she looked down wasn’t her own; it was older, overweight, and male. She couldn’t do anything to stop the train before it zoomed out of the station.

Bill, meanwhile, certainly didn’t have any objections to his new body. As he removed the ribbons from his shapely legs, he thought about the body he now had. He wondered if she was a dancer and where she lived. He realized he had absolutely no clue. Luckily, a purse lay next to him with some of the answers. The others he’d just have to wing. He thought briefly about his own body. He had just gotten out of the train when this unexpected swap took place. But he didn’t want to think about it too much. Mostly, he was happy to leave that old life and body behind and he hoped to never even give it another thought.

Shoe Selection

Vince didn’t think swapping bodies with Emily for a few days was going to be a big deal. Sure, they were stuck until that crazy mad scientist fixed his machine, but he was sure it would only be a few days and he could cope with being in her body. However, there were a few weird things he didn’t expect. When getting out of the shower, his hair was a mess. It took him a while before he got even reasonably manageable. Then there were Emily’s shoes. She had SO many. It took him forever to find something that wasn’t heeled or didn’t pinch his feet. Among the entire wall, he only found one pair of sneakers. He was trying to fathom what she even needed all these shoes for! She could probably wear a different pair each day and still not get through these all in a year. Of course, that was something he hoped he didn’t have to worry about. This should all be fixed in a few days, right?

Preppy

Sam wasn’t sure how he swapped bodies with his neighbor Carla, but he was hoping whatever happened would reverse itself somehow and do it soon. He just felt so uncomfortable. It wasn’t that he was in Carla’s body, he could deal with being a woman. It was her style that turned him off. He worked nights as a bar when he wasn’t touring with his punk band. Carla worked at an office in PR. It didn’t make sense for either of them to buy an entirely new wardrobe, so he had to just deal with the things she owned. They had each taken a few sick days when they first swapped, but today he actually had to head into her office. She picked out his outfit; he felt even more awkward than when he dug through her clothes himself. He didn’t like getting up early. He bought a big coffee to help him deal with that; as he walked from the coffee shop to the office, he could only get more nervous. She had given him a good rundown, but he wasn’t sure he was going to be able to do her job! He felt a little better thinking how Carla would have to go to his job later. She’d be mixing drinks and up late. He hoped she was having just as much trouble being him as he was being her!

Entry Level

Joseph was supposed to be excited; he was supposed to be preparing for his senior year of college next week. Instead, he was stuck in a crammed bus during rush hour, coming home from his sister’s entry level job. It was all thanks to a machine their dad had made, which swapped their bodies. Now he was stuck in the body of his sister, Mary, until their dad could fix the machine. Joseph had been quite miserable each day since the swap, but today had been particularly bad. He sat on the bus home; his sister was sure taking her sweet time to answer. He groaned when she told him that their father still hadn’t fixed the machine. Joseph snapped back that he had better do so before his classes started on Wednesday. Mary was a little more relaxed. She enjoyed the time off from work. All Joseph could do was give her a sour face as she tried to tell him to make the best of the swap.

Teaching Assistant (Part 5)

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After three months, Jason was finishing up the semester, still in Li’s body and still having yet to learn his lesson. He was close to obtaining Li’s degree, and he was adjusting to her life quite well. He had bought some clothes that felt less prudish, and he was really thinking he might want to stay in Li’s body forever. In fact, on the final day of the semester, she approached him about it. He was a little confused. Couldn’t she just undo it? Li explained that Jason had to be willing. His initial thought about how he could teach class better than she could was considered enough at the time they first swapped. Jason couldn’t help but laugh. Li wanted her body back, and he was going to do everything in his power now to prevent it. Of course, as long as he was content being in Li’s body that would be no problem.

Teaching Assistant (Part 4)

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Jason tried his best to make it through the night and into the next day with Li’s body. Getting dressed in he clothes the next day was an awkward experience. Almost everything she owned felt like she was prepping for a day at the stock market. It was all so frumpy. Still, he remembered the only way he was able to get the attention of the class yesterday and added fishnets to what would be an otherwise conservative outfit. He thought about how Li had yelled at him for that approach, but he figured as long as he kept the top buttoned up, he’d be okay. However, her warnings faded from his mind as he froze up while standing in front of the class. It was an odd feeling, but the only way Jason could get comfortable up there was to make sure he had the attention of the class, and the only way he could figure out how to get the attention of the class was to show a little skin. He began to think that Li was never going to give him his body back if he kept this up, but he was also starting to think that might not be the worst thing.

Teaching Assistant (Part 3)

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After class, Jason approached his own body. They stayed silent until everyone else left the room. “What the hell was that?” Li asked from inside Jason’s body.

“I know!” Jason replied, “How did we switch bodies?” Jason saw his own body nearly laugh. “Oh, THAT! I have a bit of magic in me. I heard your thoughts. I figured you could learn a bit of a lesson by seeing how hard it is to be me. It’s tough when you have no support from the professor and he’s supposed to be training you, but instead leaves you to it. So you thought you could better? And then you put on a practical strip show with my body!? We aren’t switching back until you learn how tough it is to be me.”

Jason looked at Li with a bit of a shock. She had done this? How is that even possible? Magic seemed absurd. Still, as she turned to walk away, he grabbed her, trying to look longingly.

“Please switch us back!” He pleaded.

“Not until you learn...”

Teaching Assistant (Part 2)

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As Jason stood in front of the class in Li’s body, he felt pretty nervous. Sure, he now knew enough to teach the class, but he lost much of his grasp on how to properly communicate that information in English. He began to sweat a little. As a guy, this was when he’d unbutton the top of his shirt and loosen his tie. Li didn’t have a tie on of course, so he just undid a button on her blouse. Suddenly, he noticed many of the students pay a little more attention. In particularly, the male students were now much more attentive. He soon developed a plan. He undid a few more buttons -- just enough to reveal a bit of cleavage. Then, instead of running through the lesson plan, he offered to go through any questions an individual may have. When a person asked, he got really close as he explained. When he approached the first questioner, Jason could hear the guy’s heart beat faster, particularly when he leaned over to look in the student’s book for reference. Jason knew he could probably get away with this for the rest of class, and he hoped he would then swap back with Li --He did glance over to see what seemed like an angry look on the face of his old body. Heck, it may have been unconventional, but he was pretty sure this method was actually way more successful than any attempt Li had made all semester.

Teaching Assistant (Part 1)

Professor McLahlan never showed up for his classes. He just skirted the responsibility, forcing one of his teaching assistants to teach the class for him. For Advanced Geometry, this meant Li would be teaching. She was good at math, but struggled with her English. Jason groaned as he sat through her lessons. He often wished Professor McLahlan would actually show up for once. Heck, he was sure that he could do a better job at teaching this class than Li was doing. Just as he had this thought, a strange thing happened. Suddenly, he found himself at the front of the class, looking at a notebook filled with things written in Japanese. It took him a moment to figure it all out, but he soon realized that he had swapped bodies with Li. He literally now was teaching the class. With the eyes of the other students on him, he froze up. He was a good student and knew some of this stuff, but he hadn’t been paying enough attention to where Li had been and her notes were of no help. He could tell the class was growing impatient with him. He glanced at the notes again, but this time, the Japanese characters actually made some sense to him. He breathed a sigh of relief, but as he spoke, he did so with a thick accent. He was having trouble forming his words. He realized that he now may have understood Japanese, but now he was struggling with his English!

Wishing for Different

Calvin was so so much in debt that he often went to bed in tears. One night he wished things were different. The next morning he discovered his wish had been granted...in more ways than one. Instead of being a poor, white guy, he awoke in the body of a rich, black woman. Then he heard a voice from the other room ask, “Honey, are you awake?” He gasped. He had been single before; was he married now? And judging from that voice, he was married to a man. He cringed at the thought of sharing a bed with another dude. He felt even weirder when he realized what could now happen to his new body in that bed -- what, in fact, had probably happened in the past to this body many times in that bed. He had wished for things to be different, but he certainly didn’t want things to be THIS different.

Havoc

Chris held the remote gently in his hands. He was actually amazed that it worked. For his first test, he had swapped his own body with a woman he knew named Amanda. He had never actually built up the confidence to talk to her, but he knew who she was. Now he WAS her. But he wasn’t done testing the remote by any means. He developed a smile on his face as he pressed another button, causing his former body to gain 200 pounds -- swapping out twenty pounds each from ten different people around. He swapped his former body’s age with an elderly man. He was nearly breaking out laughing now, seeing his old body overweight and old. It wasn’t until he stepped outside the shop he had been in when he pressed the final button, which made everyone inside aware of the changes he had just made. Many were pleased to be down a little in weight; Amanda was horrified by her new body. All Chris could think of now was how to cause a bit of havoc with this remote elsewhere!

Help

It was Kevin’s last day on Exchange Island. He had been having such a good time, but he was looking forward to swapping back to his own body again. As he walked on the beach for one last time in his borrowed body, he looked down the shore to see...himself. It had been the first time in two weeks he had even seen his own body. He tried to get a good look, but it was difficult with the sun shining in his eyes; plus, his body was quite a distance away. He watched as his body went off into the water for a swim. Then he noticed something was wrong. His body was going under. Kevin knew he was too far away to help, so he started to scream for someone to save his body. Except this turned out to be a distraction. Instead of anyone going out to help his body, they turned their attention to Kevin screaming his head off. He quickly realized his mistake and started pointing and keeping quiet, but it was too late. His body was gone. He had a good time in this body, but he didn’t want to be stuck in it! And it seemed like there was no way to go back now!