Evacuation (Part 2)

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Six months had passed since Simon’s brief visit to Exchange Island; he was still in someone else’s body. The resort explained that the emergency had been related to the swapping itself. The swapping suddenly became more aggressive. It was no longer limited to when people came or left the island; and it was no longer limited to people! Everyone had to leave immediately in order to prevent guests from being swapped with animals or trees. Simon figured he should’ve been glad nothing like that happened to him, but he was still in the wrong body! It was certainly tough explaining that to everyone he knew (Exchange Island wasn’t exactly a household name), buying an entirely new wardrobe was time consuming (though luckily he was reimbursed by the resort for the actual cost of the clothes), and just adjusting to being a woman was tough. Along with the rest of the guests, he held up hope that one day there would be a solution, but for now he could still get by.

Evacuation

Simon had only arrived on Exchange Island that day. He was still getting used to the fact that he had swapped with a very beautiful woman, but yet he had braved going to the beach in one of her skimpy bikinis. Then the sirens blared, calling on everyone to get on the boats to evacuate the island. It was so rushed that very few people had time to return to their rooms for luggage. As Simon stood on the boat, he wondered what the emergency was. He was also a little disappointed that he’d be leaving the island; after all, leaving the island meant swapping back to normal. Except that as the boat left, Simon didn’t swap back. Even as they arrived on another island hours away, he was still in the same gorgeous body. He was no longer disappointed; now he was worried. What would happen when they returned to Exchange Island again? Would he swap again? When his vacation was over, would he then end up swapping back to this body instead of his own? What if they didn’t return to the island? Would he be stuck like this? And what exactly was the emergency that forced everyone to leave? Right now, he had a lot of unanswered questions...

Rehabilitation

When Leo was arrested for a minor level offense, he was worried. He had just turned eighteen and was convinced the judge was going to put him away in an adult detention facility. However, the judge suggested an alternate rehabilitation program instead. Leo quickly agreed without even asking the details. As it turned out, the program involved swapping bodies with a volunteer for a year, and the next thing he realized, Leo was whisked to a facility where he met the person he’d be swapping with. The woman sitting before him was blonde and in her 30s. She told him about her husband and two kids, as well as the schedule he’d be expected to maintain even though she was just a homemaker. He wanted to protest, but he figured being a chick for a year was still better than going to jail.

As the months passed, despite Leo’s hesitation, he was starting to love his life as a housewife. He enjoyed doing yoga, attending mommy and me classes, doing the grocery shopping for a family, and even cooking dinner. In fact, his biggest concern soon became not wanting to give up this glorious suburban woman’s life for his own. He figured that was part of the point of the program -- to show what sort of lifestyle he could have if he tried. Yet it wasn’t just the lifestyle he was in love with, it was the life itself -- this woman, her body. He didn’t want just any nice life, he wanted to keep this one

Escape

Jeremy suddenly found himself in a room of an unknown apartment, and even weirder was the fact that he now seemed to have a woman’s body. Based on the noises on the other side of the door, he decided it was best to head down the fire escape. He nearly slipped several times due to the heels of his booted feet, but he eventually made it down to street level to find a world of panic and confusion. It seemed he wasn’t the only one who had a completely different body. Many people were scared, others were curious. It was pure madness, and Jeremy couldn’t help but feel in the middle of it and just as scared and confused as anyone...

Say a Little Prayer

Li Wei had been a powerful warlord. When he died, his spirit stayed connected to the temple built on his land. However, shortly after his death, a blight hit the land, killing everyone for miles. With no one visiting his temple, he was unable to possess a new host to be born again. The land became overgrown and the temple fell into disarray. Li Wei was sure his spirit would perish when the temple was finally destroyed by nature. Yet it stood for hundreds of years in its remote location until one day a woman arrived. Li Wei’s spirit sensed her, but still needed her to do one final thing in order to be free. Then the woman finally began to pray, and Li Wei took his opening to possess her body. Being a female was certain strange for the old male warlord, and he was sure he’d have a lot to learn about the modern world. However, he was happy to be alive again and couldn’t wait for a conquest.

Potion Party

Ed was getting pretty frustrated about the fact that Lana was refusing to drink the body swapping potion with him again leaving him stuck in her body. If he couldn’t get his own body back, at least he could make sure some of Lana’s friends joined in his personal hell. He made a big batch of the potion and decided to have a party. He served it to everyone, and he couldn’t wait for the effects to start to show. Over the next few days, he giggled to himself as he tried to figure out who was now who. Most people tried to hide who they really were -- fearful they were the only pair swapped -- but Ed knew to be looking, and he could tell little mannerisms or a personal item out of place. He was finally having some fun -- for the first time since he swapped with Lana.

Can't Be Happening

This just can’t be happening to me. I can’t be a woman! Worse still, I can’t be Hayley of all people! She was a nightmare to date, and we had finally broken up. I was happy to think I’d never see her again, but now I’ll see her every time I look in the mirror. She’s already been calling my phone non-stop to tell me what I should and shouldn’t be doing. I’ve probably talked to her more than in the past two days than I did the entire last month we were dating.

Poorly Planned Prank

When Kay asked Clyde to go skinny dipping, he knew to be suspicious. Pretty, popular girls like her just didn’t even speak with guys like him, let along ask him to do anything. And sure enough, when he saw the lake she suggested,he knew exactly what would happen, so he protested and started to leave. Kay pushed him in anyway ad jumped in after. Then the magic of the lake did its work.

As Clyde squeezed out his shirt, Kay was long gone. She had run off, probably with plans to humiliate him now that she had his body. Popular students like her always tried to find new ways to taunt nerds like him. The body swapping lake discovered in town was a perfect way to do that. He guessed she imagined he’d beg for his body back, but the truth was he was pretty happy with Kay’s body. In fact, if he avoided the lake, there would be no way for her to force them to swap back. He could really get used to her body, and she’d probably feel pretty stupid in giving it up all for the sake of some stupid poorly planned prank...

Crying

“Why are you crying, Esther?” Nancy asked her roommate, “It’s not a big deal. I’ll be okay. Ryan just broke up with me, but I’ll be okay. It’s not like I even loved him that much.”

This only seemed to intensify the waterworks. This was because the person inside Esther’s body was Ryan. He wasn’t sure what had caused the swap, but they had both agreed to pretend to be the other. Of course, now Ryan was wondering if Esther had caused the swap, if she had some sort of plan all along. He thought about telling Nancy, but would she believe him? Even if she did, she hadn’t seem the slightest bit upset about thinking he had just broken up with her. He thought he could just fix this if he had his body back, but he doubted that would ever happen now. He was just going to have to learn to be Esther for the rest of his life...

Crosstown

Ralph couldn’t believe the crosstown bus took an entire hour to get him to where he wanted to go. He was running so late. A taxi could’ve gotten him to where he wanted to go in fifteen minutes. Of course, he had sworn off taxis since the last time he was in one. It was because of a taxi that he got this gorgeous body in the first place (after his own was stolen). It was always possible that if he hailed a cab, he’d end up int he same magic taxi that swapped him into this body in the first place, and he just couldn’t risk that. He loved this body! He loved being a beautiful woman, and he wasn’t going to take any chances with it -- even if that meant some very long trips on public transit!

Favor

Chuck, Kyle, and Henry all agreed to be groomsmen for their good friend, Mark. The bachelor party was certainly fun, but then a week before the wedding Mark called in panic. He begged the trio if he could ask for a “big favor.” They all agreed, and Mark quickly explained how they were still going to be in the wedding party, but they wouldn’t be groomsmen. He started rambling about how his bride-to-be pissed off all her bridesmaids being a Bridezilla. Then the changes started, as Chuck, Kyle, and Henry all transformed into women.

They were panicked. Mark kept explaining that it would only be for a week as his bride did some final touches. They’d be able to transform back right after the wedding. Of course, if they tried to protest or if they didn’t show up, they wouldn’t transform back at all.

The three all showed up to the wedding in bridesmaid dresses, ready to go. None of them wanted to do this, but they knew it would be worse if they didn’t.

Snacking

“Michael!” Jane screamed at her boyfriend, “What are you doing?”

Michael couldn’t even imagine what he was doing wrong. Though it seemed that every since the Great Shift swapped him into Jane’s body, just about anything he did was wrong. He shrugged in response; he was at a loss.

“Chips will go straight to my thighs! Or your thighs! Stop eating those this instance of you won’t be able to fit into any of my clothes!”

Michael often snacked without thinking about it. It was true that he had gone into the kitchen to grab a bag to snack on. He made a mental note to add snacking onto the long list of things he should no longer do. Being in Jane’s body really wasn’t any fun at all.

Thug Style

Tyler had taken Swap Class because he needed he credits to graduate, and he had heard it was an easy A. Only a week into the class, and Tyler thought this A was going to be anything but easy. In part, this was because of who he ended up swapping with. Tyler liked to consider himself a self-proclaimed “thug,” a badass underachiever. Yet he ended up swapping with some nerdy Asian chick. He tried using contacts to replace her glasses and wearing his own clothes - even if they were pretty baggy on his now just over 5 foot frame. He even tried makeup, which his sister described as “ghetto fabulous.” He still assumed everyone was going to laugh at him; none of this was good for his thug image. He pondered shaving his head -- at the very least it would get rid of the annoying long hair he now had. He sighed. At this point, he couldn’t even drop out of school or at least drop the class, as if he did that, he’d never be able to get his body back!

Behind the Wheel

Enrico was in a state of shock when he suddenly went from being behind the wheel to instead being in the passenger seat. There was nothing he could do as the car drifted off to the side and plowed into various signs and other things on the roadside. Luckily, it did slow down and the person behind the wheel bolted. Enrico could only sit there shocked, soon realizing in that the car he was in was not his own before then realizing the body he was in was not his own either. He opened the door slowly and put his now dainty feet encased in high heels on the ground. His body felt so strange and his nerves were still shaken from the accident. Over time, he’d learn about the Great Shift that happened on that day. He wasn’t the only one with a wild experience, and he also wasn’t the only one to get such a dramatically different body either!

Nanobots

Ellen couldn’t help but laugh as he husband Steve leaned over the phone, waiting for a call from customer support. The two had purchased nanobots and had expected the small machines to transform their bodies into each other’s dream lover. Instead, they transformed into their own dream. Steve was horrified as the transformation, but Ellen certainly saw the humor in it. The first question she asked Steve was if he had a thing for Asian women that he hadn’t told her about. He brushed it off as just being curious and after five years of marriage, he just wanted to experiment with someone as different as he could imagine (without cheating, of course). Ellen suggested if he really wanted different, they could make love with their now gender swapped bodies. He retorted that he wanted different, but not THAT different. So they filled out the online form from the nanobot manufacturer and awaited a call. Then the bad news came. There was no rushing the program. Whatever requirements they set up to end the transformation would have to be met. And Steve remembered he requirement to end the transformation program, and he realized that he was going to have to now do exactly what Ellen had suggested...

Power

A few days ago, Brendon discovered he had the power to swap bodies. Unfortunately, this happened because he randomly started swapping bodies with people until he was able to calm down and focus. With a bit more focus, he realized he was able to return to his own body. After a bit of testing and experimentation, he thought he had it under control. As such, his life had started to get back to normal. However, he must’ve slipped up, as he soon found himself swapping into the body of a woman wearing a short blue dress and white heels. He tried to focus in order to get back to his own body, but it just wasn’t working. Maybe he was just distracted. He looked down, noting that he hadn’t really ever swapped with a woman before -- at least not for very long -- and no swaps with women had been part of his experimenting. Maybe he couldn’t properly focus because he wasn’t used to it. Maybe he just needed a bit of time like this. He was sure he still had his power, and he was convinced he wasn’t stuck like this. But it was still a slight concern in the back of his mind.

Teeth

Peter imagined he’d be spending a lot of time adjusting to the body he ended up with as a result of the Great Shift. It had happened a few hours ago, and many people around him grabbed their hair or ran their hands up their body. But Peter kept running his tongue along his teeth. They were just so much different. They were straighter and he now lacked the chip on his front tooth. He couldn’t believe how focused he was on the small minor details of his teeth when there were a lot of much bigger details he could focus on -- namely the fact that he was now a woman! He supposed he would get to all of it eventually, but considering he hadn’t yet moved on from his teeth, he imagined it would be a while.

Gone

It had been a few months since the Great Shift. People were mostly used to their new bodies and things were getting back to normal. But, of course, a worldwide body swapping event was likely to have consequences far into the future. Luke, for instance, was still curious about what had happened to his original body. He had been vacationing Asia at the the time of the Shift, yet he ended up in a body back in the States -- although it did happen to the body of an Asian woman. He was convinced his body had to be back there still. Visiting Asia was a little different this time around. Unlike his previous visit, this time people often assumed he was a native and that he spoke the language. Despite it all, he didn’t end up having any luck finding his body. Of course, he realized there were all sorts of possibilities. Something could’ve happened at the time of the swap or in the months following. It was hard to consider, but he had to accept that it was at least possible that his body was gone.

What the Hell?

“What the hell?” Both Ryan and Julia said in unison as they opened their eyes as they picked themselves up off the floor in the wake of the Great Shift. They both wondered why they were looking at themselves before realizing the true horror of being in each other’s bodies.

The were simply two strangers who had been working out next to each other at the gym. Ryan had been admiring Julia’s body -- hoping she wouldn’t notice he was checking her out -- but he certainly didn’t want it like this. Meanwhile, Julia was weirded out about being inside the body of the guy who she thought was sort of skeevy by the way he stared at her. She didn’t want to give him her number of tell him where she lived, but she was also realizing she probably wouldn’t have many options otherwise...

Research (Part 4)

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After leaving the library, Arthur was feeling in a better mood than he could ever remember. He dropped off the books but was no longer in a hurry to crack them. Instead, he bought himself a treat and took great pleasure in the ways people smiled at him and treated him with such warmth. He had to admit that being in Zoe’s body was actually pretty great. In fact, he was questioning whether he even wanted to try to swap back. Why should he go back to being an ugly nerd who everyone treated like dirt when he could be a gorgeous woman who was treated well everywhere he went?

Research (Part 3)

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Arthur began to pick the books up off the floor. Unexpectedly, a second set of hands began to help him. The hand remained extended, offering to help Arthur to his feet. Arthur refused, shooing the smiling man away. He was still crouched with the books on the ground, trying to fathom what had just happened. As an unattractive nerd, people generally just weren’t nice to him, but with Zoe’s attractive body? Well, the world suddenly seemed a lot different. He thought about his day, and he realized that while in Zoe’s body, people had actually been nice to him. He hadn’t noticed immediately because he really wasn’t used to it. But people had held doors for him, they smiled at him. Was being Zoe all that bad?

Research (Part 2)

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Arthur was no stranger to carrying stacks of books from the library, but doing it while wearing heels was another story. It felt like any second he was going to topple over. He thought about putting a few back, but he was sure they were all essential for his research. It wasn’t long before the books fell out of his hands and onto the floor. He cursed softly to himself as he crouched down to pick them all back up.

Research (Part 1)

Arthur needed to figure out what went wrong, so he the first thing he did was go to the library to get some books. Well, maybe not the first thing. The first thing that happened was he got yelled at by Zoe. It wasn’t his intention to swap bodies with her; she just happened to be nearby. The device he made was simply supposed to enhance his body by giving him bigger muscles or a more handsome face. As an unattractive nerd, these were the sorts of things Arthur hoped his invention would do to him. It seemed that instead of picking a subject of Arthur’s choosing, it picked one at random; instead of merely copying parts onto him, it also copied his parts onto the other target, and instead having copied parts onto him, it also copied his parts onto the other target. There wasn’t much he could say to calm her down or tell her how it worked. But he did tell her he was sure he could fix it; he just needed to do a bit more research to make sure things worked and avoid additional problems.

Gone Wrong

Dr. Henry Leithauser had been monitoring the work of his team careful. He was sure they could run their first test without incident. However, as soon as they flipped the large switch on the room-sized device, Henry knew something had gone horribly wrong. He found himself in a park a few blocks away, but the weird part was he was in an entirely different body. Temporal displacement was a possible bug with the device, but it shouldn’t have been this extreme. Luckily, the body he now had seemed to be in good shape; in fact, she had seemed to be out for a jog at the time, so he ran back his lab as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the lab did not appear to be in great shape by the time he got there. Flames were shooting from the building, and fire trucks surrounded it. He could only watch it burn, as he knew explaining who he was would only confuse most of the people working to extinguish the flame or those observing...

Swap Class

Ethan paused to take a break for the third time on his way home. For one, pedaling with heels was difficult. Getting off his bike and resting every once and a while just made sense. But he bigger reason was he wasn’t sure how his parents would react when he got home. Sure, they knew he was taking Swap Class and he was going to arrive home in a different body, but they probably didn’t expect that body to be a 35 year old woman! It turned out that this semester there was an odd number of student taking the class, and because Ethan was the only one over eighteen, he had to be the one to swap with the teacher, Miss Douglas. This was probably way more extreme than his parents were expecting. They had warned him against taking the class, and now he probably was going to hear it from them non-stop. Though if he was honest with himself, he was actually enjoying this body.

Luck (Part 4)

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For the next week or so, Keith got messages non-stop from the woman wanting her body back. She kept lowering the offer too. By midweek, it was down to $1000. And a few days later, she was asking for as little as $500. When he stepped out of the gym, Keith might find three or four text messages of pleading. He found it weird she never called. He began to wonder if it was actually some sort of scammer on the other end. He began blocking the number, then he just got texts from a different one. He blocked that one too. Eventually he realized he was just going to have to change his number to put a stop to this once and for all since there was no way he was going to switch back. Not now. Not ever.

Luck (Part 3)

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Three months later, Keith was pretty happy with where he ended up. Despite some initial worries, he was actually loving this new body. However, a text came in on his phone.

“Wonder if u want ur body back? Really need some cash. Sell to you for $5K?” The text read.

Keith couldn’t believe it. He had pined for his body back for a while, but now that he finally had the chance it seemed silly. This new body had worked out well for him. He had gotten a raise and promotion at work (not that he even needed it after his Vegas winnings). He couldn’t remember the last time his future looked this bright; he had to think part of that was due to this body.

He texted back, “No thx. I’m pretty happy now. Sorry!”

The reply on the other end took a while, but eventually resulted in a sad emoticon and the word “PLEASE!” in all caps.

This time, Keith just decided to ignore it.

Luck (Part 2)

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The next morning Keith woke up almost forgetting about the events of the previous day, but the long hair falling in his face quickly reminded him of his situation. It wasn’t all bad though. After losing his body and finding out he wasn’t going to be able to get it back, he turned his $100,000 winnings into even more. Maybe this body was good luck? He could just buy a new wardrobe, put a down payment on a house, put the rest of the money in a good investment, and just live a pretty good life with this body. It didn’t seem like a bad plan at this point.

Luck (Part 1)

After losing big in Las Vegas on the first day of his vacation, Keith never expected to be on the outskirts of the city literally selling his body. He got $10,000 for it. The buyer was a woman, and luckily her body was included in the sale, as Keith would’ve hated to end up becoming a brain in a jar like several others who had gone into the odd shop. He never asked her why she wanted to buy his body, but he had heard a typical practice was people buying the bodies of desperate people then charging a huge premium to get their bodies back. Keith realized he fit that description.

He was hooked into a giant machine with plenty of lights. One light got very bright for a moment until they dimmed and he found himself in a similar room with an inversed layout, and of course, he was now in the body of the woman he sold his body to.

He was paid promptly, and just as quickly he returned to the casino. He didn’t bother changing out of the leather dress -- not that he had anything to change into. He was ready to reverse his luck. And it started to seem to! He ended up turning $10,000 into $100,000. With the wad of cash now in his hand, he headed back to the outskirts to see about getting his body back. However, the shop informed him they couldn’t locate his old body. He’d have to seek out the woman who had purchased it first.

Mugged (Part 2)

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Things didn’t get any easier for Andrew after that. Even though he could easily outrun the man now in Jing’s body; he also happened to be in the body of a criminal chasing after what appeared to be a young woman. The next thing he knew, he was tackled by a police officer. As she cuffed him, she grabbed the purse from his hands. Fortunately, this triggered another swap. Now Andrew was in the body of the police officer while she was screaming from the mugger’s body. Unfortunately, Jing’s body was nowhere to be seen now. Andrew had narrowly avoided going away to jail, but now he was stuck in yet another body, had completely lost track of Jing’s body, and was also going to be forced to put the purse into evidence down at the station. This wasn’t getting any easier!

Mugged

“Freeze! And hand over the purse!” The mugger’s voice grumbled behind Andrew.

Andrew slowly turned around, clutching the purse tightly in both hands. He knew he needed to get this purse back to Jing if he ever wanted his own body back.

“I really don’t think you want to take this from me,” Andrew warned.

The mugger just laughed as he reached out to grab the small bag with a heart on it. Andrew was more than prepared for what happened next, so he made sure to continue to hold on tightly, regardless of the fact that he knew he would swap bodies with the mugger. On the flip side, the mugger was completely shocked to now be in Jing’s body. He immediately let go of the purse in shock, staring briefly at the pink manicured nails before stumbling away in horror as fast as he could with the heels now on his feet.

Andrew still had the purse -- the item inside would cause two people to swap bodies if they got close enough, which touching the purse at the same time always seemed to do -- but without Jing’s body, she’d likely be unwilling to swap with him. He was going to have to chase after it. Judging by how poorly the mugger was running in heels, it shouldn’t be that difficult to catch him.