Turn (Part 2)

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After Theodore complained to Sam, he felt strange again. Suddenly, he was once again looking at the woman’s body he had just been in. At first, he thought he returned to his own body, but then he realized he was now in Sam’s body.

“What the hell?” Theodore asked.

“I had a theory,” Sam replied from the woman’s body with a smile, “That the swap was initiated by your stare and the woman’s anger. I simply recreated the stare, and you easily recreated the anger. Sure enough, I was right.”

“But, wait, what!? How did that work, and did you actually WANT that body?” “How could I not? Now I get to walk around with this all the time, and I won’t mind when people stare. Heck, I kind of want them to! I know what I got! And I am already enjoying showing it off!”

“You are so weird, dude...”

Turn

Theodore turned around sharply to stare at his friend Sam before snapping at him, “Are you going to help me look for my body? Or are you just going to stand behind me and stare?”

“Sorry, man, sorry,” Sam stammered, “But have you seen how glorious and round it is?”

“I can’t exactly look at my own butt right now, now can I? That being said, of course I saw it. It was exactly what I was staring at when she stole my body. I’m pretty sure that’s why she did it. And, honestly, if I could swap with you right now so that you knew what it was like to have this body, I would. Now just help me find my body, so we can force her to swap back with me!”

From What He Could Tell...

David held the small, compact mirror as far from his face as he could to try and get a good look at himself. From what he could tell of what he could see of his reflection and from what he saw when he looked down, he guessed that he was not only a woman but an absolutely gorgeous one! There was one thing that did puzzle him, however...how did this happen?

His question wasn’t answered until he turned on the television. There were news reports about a Great Shift that swapped everyone’s bodies. He supposed that did explain his situation, and now his concerns drifted to how he could get a better look at his new body.

Closer (Part 2)

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It seemed Mack wasn’t the only one who swapped bodies. The crowd around him erupted into hysterics as people reacted to finding out they weren’t in their own bodies. It took a good amount of time for everyone to calm down and start filing out. Mack knew he had no hope of leaving before the crowd did. He just leaned on the car and waited. A few people still seemed to linger as the crowd finally thinned out. A few of the stares made him feel uncomfortable in a way that he never could’ve imagined before finding himself in the body of a model. He tried to shrug it off. After all, his main concern was wondering if his own body had stuck around. Or if the woman he now was had swapped into a body nearby. Maybe he could change into an outfit that was just a little more reasonable...

Closer

Mack had attended the auto show each and every year since he was a kid. He always liked seeing the latest models of cars, but he always hated the fact that he couldn’t get closer. Twenty years ago, you could walk right up, but these days? Not so much. The crowds had gotten much worse. Plus, in recent years, the cars were always behind a rope with only a representative from the company or a model close enough to actually touch the car. As he wished he could get closer, there was a sudden flash of light and he felt woozy. He reached his hand out to grab onto something to catch his balance and felt the smooth metal of a fancy new car. He pulled his hand back quickly, unsure of how he had gotten behind a rope, but sure he was going to get in trouble for it. Then he noticed the hand he pulled back. It wasn’t his own. Instead, the nails were long and manicured. The fingers were thin, delicate, and feminine. This hand wasn’t his own, and nether was the body it was attached to.

Ex

“Come on, Jenny,” Sebastian mumbled to himself as he sat on the bench waiting for his sister, “Any day now would be great.”

He was growing impatient as his sister was quite late. Then again, he couldn’t believe she had talked him into this in the first place. Jenny always dated the wrong types of guys and was pretty afraid that her most recent ex might do something to harm her. She begged Sebastian to threaten him just so he’d leave her alone. He refused. Then she came back with a second offer. She pulled out a small medallion and told her brother that she could do the threatening; she just needed to borrow his body for a while. The idea of body swapping seemed crazy, so he agreed. Sebastian was shocked after she touched the medallion to him, and the two did indeed switch bodies. She ran off, and told him to wait for her.

As he waited, he felt his phone vibrate in his back pocket. Sebastian didn’t recognize the number, but he answered it to hear Jenny on the other end. She was calling from the police station. She apparently took threatening her ex a little too far and now needed Sebastian to come bail her out. He groaned. In a few short hours, he was pretty sure his sister had managed to screw up his entire life.

Off the Bus (Part 2)

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Justin let a few cabs pass before finally hailing one. He wanted to make sure he didn’t recognize it...or more specifically, the driver. He hesitated as he got in, and driver began grilling him about why. Justin took a long sigh before explaining about how he had run into a magical taxi about a year ago, about how his body was stolen, and about how he ended up stealing a body as well. He went on to say he never took cabs anymore, but with the bus not going to his home, he had no choice.

The driver laughed, “I hear some crazy things on my drives, but that’s some tall tale. You’re pulling my leg, right? Because I gave you a hard time.”

“Yep,” Justin replied, “I’m just joking with you.”

Justin smiled. He knew he wasn’t joking, but he was also happy to finally actually confess the whole thing to someone. He had loved every minute of being a woman, but it felt weird keeping the secret that he wasn’t actually one. He had only gotten the body after stealing it due to the magic taxi so many months ago. He had finally gotten that off his chest, and it felt great.

Off the Bus

Justin exited the bus feeling a little nervous. It was apparently running on an abbreviated route today, which meant there was still nearly forty blocks to go before he was able to reach his apartment. He looked at the shoes he had picked to wear today and was filled with a sense of regret. He knew he was going to have no choice in the matter. For the first time in over a year, he was going to have to hail a cab...

Aghast

The odd gazebo in the park had caused a few freaky events through the years, swapping the bodies of people every once and a while. Gary was taking a quick breather after negotiating a big deal for the company he was CEO of, and Marisa was eating a quick snack after attending a long lecture at her college. Gary was pretty shocked when they swapped, but was even more shocked to find out how poor she was. Gary was a bit disgusted by the thought, but he realized it was for the best. When she explained she lived in Brooklyn; he was aghast that he might have to take the subway. She smiled as she reached down and handed him a pair of roller skates.

He was appalled, “I am the CEO of a fortune 500 company. I drive a Jaguar to work, and you want me to roll around in these?”

“Well, you can’t drive anymore,” Marisa replied, “My body never got a license. You’ll just have to cope for a while until we can swap back, I guess.”

He rolled his eyes. He didn’t want to deal with any of this.

Return Trip

When he arrived on Exchange Island, Ryan didn’t swap into a new body right away. It took a few hours before he found himself on the beach wearing a bikini in a woman’s body. He figured leaving would be similar; that he might not get his own body back right away. Even after getting on the plane and taking off, he just wasn’t worried. That is, until he talked to other passengers and discovered he was the only one that hadn’t swapped back into his own body. Quickly, he jumped up to ask a stewardess. He was keenly aware of how feminine he ran, and he realized how well he had adapted to being female on his short trip to the resort. The stewardess confirmed with him that he should’ve swapped back. In fact, he should have said something sooner. They were so far away now that he might never find a way back to his own body. If they returned, he’d just swap again and then swap back to this body when it was all over. His jaw dropped. That couldn’t be possible! He couldn’t be stuck as a woman for the rest of his life, could he?

Miserable

It seemed like a nightmare for Jason when it happened. He had never gotten along well with his sister Allison, and the two were always trying to make each other miserable. Well, he could think of nothing more miserable than being stuck in her body for the next few days after their dad testing out a new machine that ended up swapping their bodies. However, it wasn’t long before Jason began to see an upside. Now he was going to able to horrify his sister in ways that were unimaginable before. He quickly decided to raid the kitchen and pull as much junk food out as he could find. He was going to gorge himself on as much of it as he could. He wondered how much weight he could end up putting on her body. Maybe her clothes wouldn’t even fit by the time she got her body back! She’d freak out! She fought so hard to not gain weight; this was going to be perfect!

VIP

Ticket prices were high just to get into the concert, and once he was inside Ronald felt claustrophobic. There was so many people; there was barely enough room to breathe. He sighed as someone spilled a drink on him. He wished he was in the VIP section in the upper level. It seemed spacious. The next thing he knew, he felt strange. He suddenly had room to move around, and he was actually looking down on the crowd. His wish had been granted -- though it took him another moment to realize it had been done so in a way he never could’ve expected. He had been swapped into the body of a person up in the VIP area -- the body of a woman wearing leather from head to toe. Ronald told himself that it didn’t seem that bad.

That’s when a guy came up behind him. The man smiled and said, “Alright, baby, now it’s time to earn that VIP pass.”

Ronald didn’t feel very comfortable, and asked sheepishly, “How?”

That’s when the man’s eyes diverted to checking out Ronald’s body’s butt.

Art

Makeup had been one of the hardest things for Frederick when the Great Shift first struck. He figured when he got stuck in a woman’s body, he should embrace things like that, but it was actually really hard! Getting the eyeliner to look good and to get it not to smudge; it took practice. He set about to get better. After about two months in, he had to admit to himself that he was finally getting the hang of it. In fact, better than getting the hang of it, he actually had it down perfectly. There wasn’t an eyelash out of place or a single stray mark. He had mastered the art of makeup, and he felt a weird sense of pride about it...

Episode

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Here I Am

After the chaos of the Great Shift settled down, Max wanted little more than some time to go on a much deserved vacation. Adjusting to life as a woman was hard work, and he just wanted to get away. He settled on a rather remote location. It was all going so well until a man grabbed his arm in the market.

“I never thought in a million years I’d ever seen my own face again,” The man said.

Max was scared, but the man refused to let go and continued to talk, “Before the Shift, your body was mine. I swapped into this body thousands of miles from my home. I never expected; I never would have dreamed I would ever see it again, but here I am. Here I am...”

Deserved

George imagined that the woman couldn’t have possibly made it far. She had just walked by his worksite only about two minutes ago. He never felt good about all the other guys whistling and hooting at any attractive woman passing by, but this one took it quite personally. She looked at every guy working at the site and her eyes glowed red for a moment. Even though George hadn’t participated in the rude behavior, he wasn’t spared the effects of the woman’s strange magic as he transformed into a woman along with the rest of his co-workers. His clothes changed too -- his overalls became much more feminine by turning into a leather-ish material and becoming much more form-fitting. He jumped into action as fast as he could. He figured if he went down there and apologized to the woman, she might reverse what she did to everyone. Of course, he couldn’t quite get down there fast enough, but he knew which way she went. However, it wasn’t long before she seemed to be lost in a crowd. Now he was stuck with a woman’s body because his co-workers couldn’t keep their mouths shut when an attractive woman passed. It didn’t seem fair, but at least they were also all stuck in the exact same situation. It served them right, even if he didn’t deserve it too!

Reefed

Emmanuel had never meant to get lost on the ocean with his fishing boat, but once he did he feared it would be the end. It got worse when his boat hit a reef, and his boat started sinking. The next thing he knew, he was washing ashore on the beach. When he looked up, he was a little surprised to see a large hotel. Then he looked down at his body and was even more shocked.

A runner passing by walked by and helped him to his feet. He smiled and said, “Just arrived on Exchange Island, I’m guess? I know the body swapping can be a bit of a shock, but you get used to it soon enough. It’s actually weirder going back to your own body after the vacation is over.”

Emmanuel couldn’t believe it. Body swapping? It would certainly explain why he was now a woman, but it seemed impossible.

Independence (Part 2)

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Joel heard a commotion in the halls that told him he wasn’t the only one who had just swapped into someone else’s body. A frantic woman wearing a skirt just as short as his entered the dorm room.

“Jessica?” The woman asked, “Did it happen to you too?”

“Yeah,” Joel admitted, “So I’m not actually Jessica.”

“It’s so weird, right? I mean, just about everyone is now someone else. We’re still going to go hit the bar though; a lot of us are pretty curious about how widespread this thing is. You in?”

“I think I should at least change first...”

“Come on, girl. You look good.”

Joel blushed. He looked at himself in the mirror again. He realized he couldn’t tell Jessica what to do and what to wear anymore, and this woman was right; her body looked great in this outfit. And he felt great in it too! It was still weird in a lot of ways, but he figured he could suck it up for the night and go out like this.

“Alright,” He sighed, “I’m with you. Let’s go.”

Independence

Ever since she left for college, Joel missed his daughter dearly. He thought about calling her on a daily basis, but he held himself back, telling himself that she needed her space and independence. It was on one of those days when he was thinking of her that a bright light shone into his room. The next thing he knew, he was on her campus and in her dorm room. Then there was the most striking thing: he was in her body! As he looked in the mirror, he was sure shocked by the fact that he was now his own daughter, but he was even more shocked by her outfit.

“What the heck was Jessica thinking?” He thought aloud, “Was she really going out like this? Does she really own something like this?”

He started to regret not calling her when he had those impulses. Maybe if he had, she wouldn’t even consider wearing something like this! After all, it couldn’t have hurt to remind her that her father cared about things like this!

Waking

Ralph awoke and puled his baseball cap off the nightstand, but he couldn’t help but notice the long pink nails on the ends of his fingers. They made it difficult for him to pick up his phone, turn the camera on, and reverse the image. He couldn’t believe the face looking back at him. She was absolutely gorgeous. When he pouted his lips; she did the same. It was hard for him to believe, but there was no denying it: he was this woman. He was trying to figure out how this could have possibly happened, and what he could do to get his own body back...

Counsel

John had worked as a counselor for many years choosing to work a low paid government job in order to help those who needed it the most for no cost. He often sat in an office for eight hours a day barely seeing one or two clients each day. But with the Great Shift, his work took on a whole new meaning. His days quickly became packed with back to back clients seeking help for a specific problem. Usually, they would come in panicked.

John would reply calmly, “Look, I get it. You’re freaked out due to the fact that Great Shift placed you in a new body. That happened to everyone. There’s nothing special about it. You think you’re different because you found yourself with a new gender. Well, I was a man before all this. Now let’s talk about it. And let’s talk about how you deal with it. Because, believe me, it’s not that hard.”

In the Club

Within the club the Great Shift was pretty much self-contained. And with all the booze, pills, and other illegal substances, it took several hours for anyone to even notice the effects. It was Alec who noticed first. He felt like his high was coming down; in fact, he wasn’t even sure if he had a high at all. Things felt different, but he couldn’t quite place it for about an hour. It was when he needed to pee. He pushed through the people to find a bit of space and finally noticed his new body. He was a little more than confused, and he realized he was going to quickly learn how to pee as a woman. Even more concerning was if he could figure out a way to get out of this purple leather body suit in order to pee at all...

Blank

The grave sat alone in the yard, unmarked. No one knew the man who had been buried there, and it was often a source of mystery in the town, even more so when a young woman came by to visit it from time to time to place a flower or other object by the grave. One day, one of the town residents finally asked the woman as she grieved who the tombstone belonged to.

“It’s mine,” The woman said rather flatly, “Or rather, that’s my body. I don’t know how or why, but while I sat in the hospital bed awaiting death, something happened. I don’t know if it was a weird electrical jolt in the hospital wiring that did it or maybe it was some sort of spiritual thing, but I found myself swapped into this body. A few hours later, my original body died. I didn’t have any family, so I made sure my body had a proper burial. I didn’t know whose name to put on the grave. Should I put my own? The woman who I swapped with? I didn’t even want to explain how I knew, so I allowed it to remain blank. But I come back here every now and again to remember who I was...”

Venting

In all fairness, it had been a fun twelve hours. Pete had spent much of that time running around his apartment, wearing skimpy clothes, and looking at himself in the mirror. But with time up, he was ready to get back to his own body. He pulled the Medallion of Zulu out of it’s hiding place and gave a sigh. He was going to miss being a woman, but he knew as long as he had this trinket, he could do it again any time he wanted. As he reached for a piece of his own clothing in order to return to normal, the medallion fell out of his grasp. It rolled along the floor and into a heating vent. Pete got down on his knees to look. He could see it down there, but he couldn’t figure out how to pry open the panel to get to it. He thought about calling the building super, but he would probably then have to explain why the medallion was so important and who this unknown woman asking for this was. Maybe he could call a friend; someone he trusted. He just wasn’t sure. What he did know was that he’d be stuck with this body until he could get the medallion back...

Extra Credit

The last thing Robert wanted was to fail out of college in his first semester. But the results of his introductory science course weren’t looking good. He begged his teacher for some sort of extra credit. Ms. Park was hesitant. Extra credit wasn’t something she generally offered, but she had been working on an experiment with the university that lacked volunteers. She suggested that if Robert was willing to help him out, she might be able to pass him. He quickly agreed and met her in one of the college’s labs that Saturday.

It turned out the experiment she was testing was a brain swapper. With no other volunteers, it meant Robert would be swapping with Ms. Wong. He was scared, but he was more scared of explaining to his parents that he failed out of college. And so after a lengthy process with a lot of strange equipment, he ended up in the body of his own teacher. He begged to switch back right away, but she explained it wouldn’t be possible to do so for at least 24 hours. In the interim, he was going to spend his time in her body at her house.

He felt extremely uncomfortable in Ms. Wong’s body, and even more so being in her house. He was only able to loosen up when he found her wine cellar and broke open a bottle. He finally was able to relax and smile. A brief moment of paranoia came over him, as he was afraid a RA might walk in on him, but then he remembered where he was and the body he was in -- there was no way he was going to get in any trouble.

Best Friends

“I still can’t believe our girlfriends were dumb enough to swap bodies with us,” Marco mused, “I mean, once they did that, why did we even need them around anymore?”

“Come on, it’s not like you expected this before they did this to us,” Ivan countered, “We were both freaked out about being in their bodies at first, but we learned pretty quickly.”

“Yeah, when you swap into a body that you’re attracted to, it’s not like you care much about your original body anymore. And it doesn’t hurt when your best friend is now in a body that you often dreamed on cheating on your girlfriend with, ” Marco added while sliding his hand onto Ivan’s butt.

“Tell me about it,” Ivan smiled while returning the favor, “This was the best thing that could’ve happened to us, even if we didn’t plan it.”

“I’m glad we ran away together after they did it to us. I wouldn’t change any of this for the world...even my original body back.”

“Me too. Me too.”

Shhh...

Doug realized now that he probably should’ve kept his mouth shut. When he saw her in the college library, he knew hitting on her was inappropriate, but he thought she was so attractive. He made a comment that she promptly ignored, but then he put his hand in an inappropriate place. The next thing he knew, she read aloud loudly from the book she had. He felt woozy for a moment, then things went black.

When he awoke again, he realized things were now very different. He was now her -- the woman he had hit on. He didn’t know how, but he figured it was in the book she had been reading. He picked it up and began to read, hoping to find some sort of clue as to how to get back to his own body...

Happening

Ever since the Great Shift happened, Lawrence couldn’t quite explain what was happening to him. Sure, he understood that he was now in a woman’s body, but that didn’t explain things. According to all reports, despite people’s new bodies, they retained who they were. Their likes, their attitudes, their personalities, and everything. Except Lawrence now felt giddy at the sight of things like shoes. He marveled at fancy dresses, and just adored shopping. He knew for a fact that before the Shift, he was never into any of these things. He was having trouble comprehending why he was changing. It couldn’t possibly be simply because he now had a new body, could it?

Nothing to Panic About

“Okay, nothing to panic about yet,” Gerald told himself as he checked his phone, “I’m five minutes early. She just might not be here yet. I just sit here and wait, she’ll show up, and then we can swap back.”

Gerald continued to fidget with his phone as he waited for Alexis to show up. He had swapped with her two hours ago just to find out what it would be like to be a woman for a bit. It seemed like a good idea, but he was getting quite anxious about getting back to his own body. In fact, the last few minutes, he had been increasingly uncomfortable. He hadn’t noticed some of these feelings earlier, but now they were beginning to bother him. The tightness of his pants, the restriction of his bra, and the uncomfortableness of the heels. It was finally starting to feel so strange...

Brain Scan (Part 2)

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After about a month, Jason was finally released from the hospital. It still felt really weird to have a woman’s body, but he was getting used to it. It certainly helped that no one on the staff tried to get him to “embrace his feminine side” by wearing dresses or skirts or anything like that. He did have plenty of meetings with various psychologists to get used to the fact that he now had Michelle’s body instead of his own.

He also had to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which was a pretty good deal but also had a lot of provisions. On the good side of things, the hospital was giving him a huge monthly payout for the rest of his life. He would probably never have to work again. Michelle was single and lived alone, so it would probably work out all right for him. On the other side, he had to agree not to make contact with his original body or his family again. He realized this would be tougher, but he also had no desire to drag them into this. If he did happen upon them, he could never reveal who he really was. In fact, other than to a select number of people, he could never reveal who he was to anyone. As far as the world was concerned, he was Michelle Chang, a woman who had recovered miraculously from a brain injury.