60

Andrew had been walking to the store when a burst of light engulfed his vision. The next thing he knew, he was behind the wheel of a car going 60MPH on the highway. He calmly and carefully pulled off the road with his heart racing. It took a moment or two of calming down before he realized he was not only in an unfamilar luxury car, but he was also in an unfamiliar body! He turned on the radio to hear all sorts of reports about something being called “The Great Shift.”

In some ways the reports were comforting; it was good to know he wasn’t crazy. In others they were disturbing; if literally billions of people were affected, it seemed very unlikely this would be reversed any time soon. That meant he was going to be stuck in this woman’s body for the foreseeable future. He had a lingering hope that maybe it was all some sort of elaborate dream that he’d wake up from at any second, but it all seemed far too real for that to be a possibility.