Taking a break

I am taking a break for a while. Not sure how long. Maybe forever.

Daily

How long had it been since it started that one day when Neil awoke in someone else’s body for the first time? Maybe five years ago now or more? It didn’t even feel weird anymore to wake up in a new body each morning anymore. He was sure he’d ruined many people’s lives at first by just staying in bed, refusing to go to work, or anything. But these days, he’d hop out of bed and get ready. He was pretty sure he was now an expert on figuring out a person based on their room and wardrobe. Though he had obviously been born a guy, he’d been both men and women for enough time to figure out that he actually preferred being a woman. This morning he was excited to be a woman once again, as he selected a cute, black leather dress from the closet. He slipped it on, then adjusted his hair and makeup as he admired the cute Asian face lookng back at him. He knew he’d be someone else again tomorrow, but he often fantasized about finally keeping a body for longer than a day. This body would be top on his list; it was perfect. But he also knew not to hope too hard.

Get Back Home (Part 5)

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It didn’t make sense. None of it made sense. Why did Kyle swap bodies with this woman? Why did she pretend to not be swapped as all. As he left his apartment and stood in the parking lot to contemplate it all, he heard a loud, “FREEZE! Put your hands up!”

Kyle did as instructed as it all came together in his head. This woman had committed some sort of crime. She had taken his body as a means of escape -- perhaps even completely at random. She probably didn’t even expect him to get all this way, so she had to pretend to be dumb. But still, he knew the cops wouldn’t believe him. Whatever she did, he was going to have to be the one to face it. This was all terrible, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Get Back Home (Part 4)

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Kyle didn’t know what else to do but ring the buzzer on his apartment. The door was unlocked without a word spoken over the intercom. He walked up three flights of stairs to see his own body in the hallway.

“Oh, thank God,” Kyle said before explaining everything about how he obviously swapped bodies, how he made it way back, and so on.

“I guess I’m sympathetic,” His own body replied, “But swapping bodies? I think I’d know if I wasn’t me. But do you need me to refer you to a shelter or a psychiatrist or something?”

Kyle was outraged, but he didn’t have the words. He knew he was who he was; why was the woman in his body playing him like this? And what could he say? Anyone who saw them surely wouldn’t believe him. Body swapping was something completely unheard of -- at least until it happened to Kyle this morning.

Get Back Home (Part 3)

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At some point Kyle ditched the heels. Walking in his bare feet was painful, but it was still less painful than continuing on in those uncomfortable shoes. He also realized he wasn’t far from his apartment complex anyway -- it was just on the other side of the highway. He groaned. Luckily, traffic was light but the trash (including quite a few broken bottles) on the side of the road made him regret tossing the heels out earlier. Still, he was pretty happy to have his goal in sight, even if he hadn’t yet figure out how he was going to get into his apartment...

Get Back Home (Part 2)

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Getting back home was not easy. Kyle didn’t seem to have any sort of purse or pockets, so he couldn’t find any wallet or phone. He was going to have to walk, and just use his best sense of direction. None of that was particularly easy. Remembering which streets went where was a challenge, and the heels were obnoxious to walk in. But what was the worst were the stares from guys he’d pass on the street. They’d look at Kyle in ways that made him uncomfortable in ways that he never imagined he could feel like. He wondered if he had ever doe the same to women. He told himself when he got his body back, he’d be a better person...that is IF he got his body back. A chill ran over him as he realized this feeling of being stared at might be something he’d have to get used to.

Get Back Home (Part 1)

What the hell is going on here? Kyle was taken aback to be standing on the sidewalk wearing heels and a yellow dress. He had just been at home relaxing, and now he was outside dressed as a woman? Or rather, it seemed, he actually WAS a woman. He could see the long hair on his shoulders, and imagined that he looked like some sort of dumb blond bimbo. He moved awkwardly at first as he got used to this body and the heels. He needed to get back to his apartment!

Accept the Reality

Bradley looked down and tried to fathom why he was suddenly wearing different clothes. The baggy red sweater and tight, shiny black pants certainly weren’t his style. They weren’t even pants, they were more like...leggings? He tugged on them gently, beginning to wonder why his legs looked so skinny. And were his nails painted? None of it seemed to make any sense. The reality of being in a completely different body was such an outlandish and impossible idea, that he hadn’t even accepted it as fact yet. But it was fact. He was now in the body of a woman...

Fortunate

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When Andrew caught the deadly disease, he knew he was fortunate enough to be able to afford the most expensive treatments available. However, attempt after attempt proved unsuccessful. The final solution was certainly extreme. He was placed under, his brain transplanted into a new body, and he awoke in the hospital several days later. The disease was cured, but he was now in the body of a woman. He couldn’t move yet; his brain was still figuring his new body out. But he knew it was only a matter of time until he continue on with life.

Weighted

With no doubts in her mind about it, Johanna absolutely hated the results of the Great Shift. She had been a personal trainer before the Shift, but she lost all of her clients once they saw her new body; Johanna had swapped into the body of an overweight woman. Her boyfriend, Sven, offered to help her out. He too was a personal trainer, and, coincidentally enough, swapped into Johanna’s old body. Working out with Sven was difficult. She couldn’t push her new body in the ways she was used to, an Sven always asked for more from her as well. Despite giving it her all, she never seemed to lose any weight either! It only got worse a few weeks later when Sven decided to break up with her. He told Johanna he found himself much less attracted to women now that he was one himself, but Johanna was convinced he simply wasn’t interested in larger women like her! He did, however, to stay on as her trainer. She wanted to cry. It felt like her entire world was falling apart.

City of Lovers

Paris is the city of lovers, and Mario had arrived just a few hours ago with his girlfriend, Lana, hoping to absorb the feeling. Unfortunately, not even the wonderful city of Paris was immune to the effects of the Great Shift. Mario soon found himself lost, swapped into the body of a random French woman.

Lana knew the city and the language better than him. He was mostly walking the streets alone, struggling with the high heels on his feet. Most people were too panicked to help him, or simply couldn’t or refused to speak English in order to do so. 

As the hours passed and people calmed down, a few guys (or maybe women now in guys’ bodies) seemed more willing to help. However, it seemed they were more interested in helping themselves make a love connection with Mario’s now gorgeous body than helping him find his girlfriend or hotel. 

Adjust

Chad bolted up quickly. He could just barely tell that he was in a hospital or maybe a doctor’s office. His head was spinning; he felt woozy and disoriented; his vision was blurry. Soon a nurse and doctor rushed in.

“Chad, you need to lie back down,” The doctor instructed him.

“What’s going on?” Chad paused, reflecting on the sound coming out of his mouth, “What’s wrong with my voice.”

“There’s nothing wrong. You were in a car accident. We were able to save you by transplanting your brain into a new body. We were afraid you wouldn’t wake up at all, but, please you are weak.”

“New body? What body?”

“Please, your still adjusting to it. You’re in the body of a young woman named Nadine. Things probably feel strange. Don’t worry; you’ll adjust with time...”

Which is it?

“Look, I get it. The last thing I wanted was to be a woman for the rest of my life, to be stuck in your body. But I’ve also got to think at this from a logical perspective,” Chris explained, “We were both kidnapped by that weird guy in the club. He locked us in this room, and ran experiments on us. He switched our freeking brains, for God’s sake, leaving me stuck in your body and you stuck in mine. We’ve been looking for a way out practically since we got here. I can’t explain how we got this window unlocked so suddenly, but I also don’t think we can pass up our chance to escape. I realize we’re probably going to be stuck like this, but do you really think that psycho would ever swap us back any way? Or ever let us go? You got to admit this is our best shot at a normal life. Now you can either come with me, or take your chances here by yourself, so which is it?”

Organized Chaos

When the Great Shift happened, Greg would’ve likely appreciated a moment to truly gather himself. He barely registered that he now had a body that was not his own when he realized he was also standing in front of a crowd with a microphone in his hand. It seemed everyone in the crowd had also swapped bodies, and the responsibility to calm them was in his hand.

“I know this is probably pretty scary for everyone,” Greg said before he even paused to swallow or acknowledge how high pitched his voice sounded, “But we should probably all be calm. I know I’m not in my own body right now, as I’m guessing most of you aren’t either.” Greg paused again to push long hair out of his face -- something he was certainly not used to, “I think I’m just saying don’t blame each other, and don’t panic. Try to find some way to identify who you were, and if you can find your former body, try to coordinate.”

Greg spoke for about twenty minutes, and it resulted in one of the most organized moments of chaos amidst the Shift. It wasn’t until he finished speaking that Greg truly noticed his new body aside from the small inconveniences that were getting in the way as he spoke. He was now a woman of Asian descent. The clothes he wore were tight and revealing; he couldn’t imagine the shorts he wore being any tighter. He had no purse that he could find, but he presumed someone had to know this body, as she had been on some sort of a stage holding the microphone he ended up using. He just had to figure it all out.

The Universe Is Collapsing

Doctor Bradley Ramirez had hoped the collider he had invented would unlock the mysteries of the universe. Instead, he was afraid that he accidentally doomed the world instead. After his first test, things around his lab started going missing. Then he’d find things in odd places -- like his computer mouse randomly being in the toaster. Then things got weirder as he noticed the words of a book printed on the inside of his toilet. The evidence was starting to be undeniable -- the world was collapsing in on itself. Nothing was truly disappearing, but things were being merged. Just as he hoped to bunker down to fix it, he too was merged. Luckily, it was with another human. He was lounging on a beach thousands of miles from his lab in a bikini. He had a woman’s body, but he was still himself on the inside. Before, he could even think, he was merged again. This time he still had on the bikini, but also a coat and snowboots. He was on a mountain somewhere, and still certainly a woman. This was driving him crazy. He couldn’t fix anything if he couldn’t stay in one spot! He also realized at any moment, he could be the one to lose his mind in a merge. He theorized the world had little more than 24 hours left.

But the oddest thing happened next. The merging slowly stopped. Sure, there were a few people like Bradley, in the wrong body, and other odd sights, like a bear with plants growing out of its back. But things had stabilized. Bradley was sure he had the time now to fix things, maybe even reverse things. But he worried about trying again. Could he make things worse?

Lecture

Professor Wilson Reynolds had students fall asleep in his lectures before, but a classmate did usually wake them up when it was time to leave. To say that Wilson was a little annoyed by the young woman slightly snoring in the back long after everyone had left the room would be an understatement. He walked behind her seat quietly and kicked. Just as he did so, he felt a jolt like he was waking up from a dream. He realized he was now sitting down in the seat he had just kicked; he was somehow now the body of his own student.

Despite his panic, the student in his body was even more broken up. She ran out of the room crying; Wilson was nowhere near fast enough to catch up. He strolled calmly back into the classroom. A new group of students would be filtering in soon, and he’d have to give his lecture despite having the body of this slacker.

His biggest concern was if the students would take him seriously. it was early in the semester, so most probably didn’t know him -- though he did have a bit of a reputation. Even still, he’d imagine it might be hard seeing a woman no older than they were giving a lecture on advanced physics.

It seemed, however, that most of the next class didn’t even show up. The swap didn’t just swap Professor Reynolds and a student, the entire school had been swapped around. People were panicking, and no one was going to class.

Snow (Part 2)

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With the snow coming down, Jason decided he had waited long enough, and proceeded to head back home. He figured he should’ve seen this coming. The reason they both had swapped in the first place was neither had felt comfortable in their own body, and he had to admit that the past week had felt very right. In Xue’s body, everything just felt right. He could only assume she felt the same way about being in his body.

He had lived her life for the week -- lived in her apartment, did her job. Despite some differences, none of it felt out of place. He could just keep it up indefinitely. He was no longer Jason in Xue’s body; she was Xue. That was who she was now, and the man she used to be was now Jason.

Snow

Swapping bodies with Xue was supposed to be temporary. After spending a week in each other’s bodies, Jason was not ready to swap back yet but still arrived at their meet up spot.

Xue hadn’t yet arrived, so he waited. He did his best to appreciate her body one last time, thinking she’d come any moment and they’d swap back.

He thought about the feel of the leather pants he chose to wear that day. They were a little sexier and more feminine than the jeans Xue usually wore, but a lot less so than a lot of dresses Jason had worn throughout the week. He did it out of respect; he knew Xue would probably be pissed to be wearing a dress when she got her own body back.

There was a lot to think about, and the minutes turned into hours. And after some time passed, it began to snow.

Jason was starting to think Xue wasn’t going to show up.

Mom, Please!

“Mom, please,” Mike begged, “I was mad at you and bad when you moved us here, but then I found that weird body swapping device in the barn in our backyard and things at least got interesting. You have no idea how many swaps I made before you caught me in there after I swapped with our neighbor, Lindsey. Then you activated the thing, and I never expected you to end up in her body, and I certainly didn’t want to be in your body. And, yeah, I guess it was fun for a while, but Lindsey wants her body back, Mom! Please!”

“Maybe I should keep this body a little longer to teach you a lesson,” Mike’s mom replied, “And maybe if you spend a few more days as me, you’ll understand exactly how hard it is to be me.”

“But you can’t punish, Lindsey, Mom! It’s not fair.”

“Fine. We’l go back to the barn, and I will swap with Lindsey. She’ll be normal; I’ll be you; and you can stay me for a little longer. Does THAT seem fair to you, young man?”

Someday

Today was supposed to be the happiest day of Stephen’s life -- the day he married Melissa, the woman he had been dating for nearly five years and proposed to last year. But a few weeks ago, a strange accident caused him to swap bodies with Melissa’s sister, Alana. Both he and Alana decided to keep the swap quiet; they hoped they could find a way to get back to their own bodies. As the wedding grew closer, they were both becoming resigned to the fact that may not happen. They knew canceling the wedding would break Melissa’s heart. Revealing the truth and having Stephen go through with the wedding in Alana’s body seemed out of the question; it would be be one thing to convince Melissa of the truth, but a whole other to not perceive the whole thing as two sisters marrying each other.

So they decided to continue lying. Alana would continue to pretend to be Stephen as long as was needed. She loved her sister well enough to work through any awkwardness, and Stephen loved Melissa enough to realize she deserved every happiness. Being in Alana’s body was still awkward for Stephen, but getting all dressed up for a fancy wedding as a woman was even wilder than he expected. He knew watching Melissa get married was going to be the hardest thing he ever had to do, and he knew living Alana’s life from this point forward was probably going to be the second hardest. But he was thankful that he knew Melissa would still be in his life in some capacity now that he was her sister, and he still help onto the hope he’d find a way to swap back...someday.

Bundled Up

Russell never used to be able to understand why his girlfriend started the bundle up the second the weather got just a tiny bit cooler. Heck, he’d be wearing shorts until November while she was wearing coats at the end of August. At least, he never understood it until the Great Shift swapped their bodies. Sure enough now that he was the one in her body, he found himself all bundled up in September. He hated it. The winters felt more bitter and colder than he ever remembered, and while he used to love a nice blast of AC in the summer, he now hated it. He figured it all something about her biology, but he was still having trouble getting used to it, even a year later.

Shoes

Matt still remembered what it was like before the Great Shift. He owned two pairs of shoes, one pair of sneakers and one pair of dress shoes. When the sneakers wore out, he’d buy new ones. But finding himself in a woman’s body as a result of the Shift, he found his thoughts on shoes changing. He now owned over a hundred pairs. He’d go to stores to look at shoes he’d dream of owning -- some much too far out of his budget. He couldn’t figure out why his attitude about this one fashion item had changed so much, and he couldn’t seem to stop himself either. Psychologically, he still felt like himself, the same Matt he always was. But it was just this one thing that was different.

Games

“Couldn’t we do something else besides playing video games?” Aidan questioned to his two friends, “I mean, we’d waste our time with these games when we were guys. Now that we have these women’s bodies -- I don’t know, it just feels like a unique opportunity.”

“Relax,” Thom retorted, “You can play winner, dude. You’ll get a chance.”

“That’s not what I was trying to say, but...fine.”

As Thom handed off the game controller to Aidan and he started playing, he couldn’t help but thinking back to swapping with these women, but it was still a little hazy.

“What if we don’t swap back?” Aidan asked, “What if we’re stuck like this.”

“As long as it doesn’t affect our game, I’m fine with it,” Jonathan finally interjected before added in reaction to one of Aidan’s moved, “No fair!”

HR (Part 2)

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In less than five minutes, John found himself swapped with Carmela. To his surprise, he was already in the middle of working -- which seemed weird since she wasn’t scheduled to arrive until late at night. That is, until he realized Carmela wasn’t working at his office right now, but in a different one; she had two jobs. He could feel his body was tired of working so much; he could feel his bones aching. However, he knew the rules HR had established. If didn’t suck up and bear it for the week, he’d be stuck in this body forever. He as just going to have to deal with it.

HR (Part 1)

“Do we really have to do this? This is ridiculous,” John complained as he sat in the HR office.

“It’s how sensitivity training is working this year, John. Everyone draws a name from this pile and swaps bodies for a week with the person whose name is on the card. Do you honestly think I’d be sitting here in Marcia’s body if I had a choice?” Howard explained.

John grumbled as he reluctantly drew a card and read it, “Carmela Diaz? Who the hell is that?”

“She works the late night cleaning shift. You might’ve seen her when you get in at 9AM as she’s leaving. Should be an interesting week for you.”

Boyfriend (Part 2)

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Julie looked all over for Marc, and she eventually found him down by the lake. He didn’t seem particularly happy to see her.

“What the hell, Jules?” He asked her. She immediately knew he was referring to the dress she was wearing.

“I didn’t have a choice! I had to come looking for you!” She replied.

“And you didn’t think, ‘Hey, let me find some clothes first to not make Marc look like an idiot?’ I’ve just been here the entire time; I didn’t want to make YOU look bad.”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. So then we should switch clothes or something?”

Marc’s heart sank. It was one thing for Julie to be running around his body wearing a dress. Yeah, that was embarrassing. But switching clothes meant that he was going to actually be wearing a dress. He wasn’t sure he could ever live that down -- even though no one else would really know. He knew he looked like Julie right now, so he should probably dressing like her anyway. Plus, it would get Julie out of that dress and into something less humiliating. He just wanted to be back in his own body and not have to think about any of this mess.

Boyfriend (Part 1)

Julie was scared. She had no idea what was happening to her. All she feel were sharp pains and her dress was getting tighter. By the time the pain stopped, she was glad she hadn’t burst out of her dress. She also couldn’t help but notice her now muscular chest and hairy legs. She had a man’s body! She rushed to a mirror to discover she wasn’t just any man; she had become her boyfriend, Marc.

She knew she had to go find him to try to figure out what had just happened, but she was also sure Marc would be very upset to have people see him out dressed like this. She knew there wasn’t much choice; she wasn’t at home where she could change. It was going to have to be a risk she had to take!

Drowned

John looked back to see his own body dead and floating in the pool. He supposed he could call an ambulance, but he paused for a moment to think about what had happened. He was a good swimmer; there was no reason why he suddenly started to drown. It was like he just forgot for a moment, then everything the flashed. The next thing he knew, he was standing at the edge of the pool, watching his former body drown. But he was doing it from another body -- a woman’s body. He could remember everything about himself -- about being John -- but he also realized he had forgotten one thing; he had forgotten how to swim. He knew he used to know, but the knowledge just didn’t seem to transfer to this new body.

And so he slowly continued out of the pool and called for help. He pretending to not have any connection to his former body. Heck, he didn’t know much about his new body, so it probably wasn’t a lie. There were going to be a lot of questions, and John needed to start finding answers.

Family Therapy

“This is the dumbest family therapy session Mom has ever signed us up for.” Kevin whined to his sister, “Swapping bodies with each other for an entire week? Who came up that? I can’t believe I’m stuck as you, Crystal. Do you even know what I just had to go through?”

“Yeah, Kevin,” Crystal retorted calmly, “I’m fully aware of my cycles, and you know I have to go through that every month, right?”

“Ugh, it’s gross.”

“Well, I’m not exactly happy being in Mom’s older body either, but I think I’m also picking up parts of her personality. I feel calmer, wiser, more patient -- and I think you might be picking up some of my bitchiness. God, I can’t believe I’m admitting that about myself.”

“I’m bitchy because I’m experiencing PMS for the first time, Crystal. It sucks.”

The Wedding

The Great Shift took place only two months before Walter and Laura’s wedding. While Laura ended up in Walter’s body, Walter ended up the body of a woman they didn’t know -- and couldn’t seem to identify. Despite the craziness of the world and their now new bodies, the couple decided to go through with the wedding regardless. A few plans needed to be changed, such as getting Laura’s dress altered to fit Walter’s new body. But as the ceremony grew closer, Laura and Walter realized something else’s about Walter’s new body -- it was pregnant.

It meant Laura’s dress would need to be altered once again, and Walter felt more than a little nervous about giving birth in a few months. Before the Great Shift happened, they had talked about trying to start a family after the wedding. Now it seems that it was going to happen a little bit sooner than either of them would have anticipated; and of course, neither would’ve expected it would be Walter the one giving birth.

Freedom

Paul and Claire tried to make their relationship work after the Great Shift, even though they were now both in the bodies of women. Paul still felt like he was attracted to women, and Claire had always considered herself a little bisexual, so they assumed it would work. 

As time passed, Paul was still fairly committed. He certainly realized he was now attracted to men as well, and more than a little curious about experimenting with one, he knew he still loved Claire. On the other hand, Claire, despite knowing how attractive Paul’s female body was, realized she just wasn’t interested. Her current body’s hormones seemed interested in men exclusively; though she certainly gave the relationship with Paul her best efforts.

Eventually, Paul moved out. He realized he didn’t own much; most of it could fit in a suitcase. Even most of the clothes he wore had been borrowed from Claire with just a few outfits he bought himself sprinkled in. Luckily, she let him keep a few. He realized he was starting a new life on his own. He could be anyone he wanted, go anywhere, do anything. In a way, he finally felt an odd sense of freedom.

Gifted

Mike never would’ve described himself as a good father. He didn’t even know he was a father until an ex of his contacted him on his daughter’s two year old birthday. He tried to just ignore her existence, and even that worked for another year or two. He tried a bit, but his heart just wasn’t into the girlie things his daughter wanted to do. On her fourth birthday, he figured he’d just buy her a nice present and be done with the child.

He wasn’t quite sure what compelled him to stop in the odd shop or why he was drawn to the music box with a ballerina inside. But it was a reasonable enough price, and the exactly the sort of thing his girlie daughter would love. On her birthday, he gave her the gift and simply headed out, thinking he’d never see her again. He was wrong.

The next morning, he awoke on a wooden floor with pink fluffy pillows all around. The light in the room seemed to be shaped like a keyhole. He quickly realized he was wearing silver heels, a pink tutu, and a tiara. He looked for a door, but there seemed to be no way out. Mike was panicking when a floor of light shone in the room. He felt compelled to dance, and he couldn’t stop himself from giving a robotic ballet performance to tinny music. As he looked around, he could see his young daughter towering over him, and he realized the horror of his situation. He was the miniaturized ballerina in his daughter’s music box!

Day Trip Through Time

“Is this safe?” Norma nervously asked her husband, Al.

“If my invention works as it should,” Al explained, “Your mind will travel fifty years into the future. You’ll inhabit someone else’s body for a day, then you’ll return. For me, it’ll feel like no time has gone by, but for you, well, you’ll be able to tell me all about your day trip to the future! Should we get started?”

Norma nodded. Al pressed the button.

“Did it work?” Al asked.

Norma took a moment to respond. When she did, she seemed to be speaking with a Brooklyn accident. “Did what work? What the f*ck is wrong with my voice? Why do I have f*cking tits? What the f*ck did you do to me? Where am I?”

Al quickly realized his miscalculation. Instead of sending his wife’s mind into the future for a day, he captured a mind from the future which was now inhabiting his wife’s body -- and he certainly hoped it would only be for a day! Calming the man down was no easy feat -- he was certainly not happy about being a woman -- but Al eventually managed to explain the situation. The man seemed skeptical, but he figured he could survive one day in the past as a woman.

Run Away (Part 2)

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The pain wasn’t going away easily, but Luke realized one good thing about the pain was that it distracted him from his new body. Even rubbing hairless legs was a little weird, but he’d be surely focusing on the parts he now lacked or gained as a result of becoming a woman. Thinking about running after his own body, and how his chest would likely bounce as he did, also seemed quite strange to him. He knew he’d have to get used to these things in the short term; he just hoped he would be able to do something about them soon enough.

Run Away

Luke barely had time to process what happened. He had been jogging in the park when a woman came running up behind him. He wasn’t quite sure what happened next, but he found himself in her body. Judging by the smirk on his former face, he had a feeling she was responsible. Before he could react, she kicked him in the shin and ran off.

Luke wanted to give chase. He wanted to get his body back. However, his leg was hurting, and he needed to take care of that first. After all, what was this woman’s endgame? If she went back to his place, he knew where he lived. If she went back to her own place, he was sure someone knew this woman and where she lived. Where could she run to?

Not Ready

Finding himself in a woman’s body as a result of the Great Shift was shocking for Gerold. He wasn’t sure if he was ready for things like makeup and skirts, not to mention things like PMS and periods. As he prepared himself for the latter, he was surprised that it still hadn’t happened after a month, and still nothing a month later. It wasn’t until his belly started growing out that the true nature of his predicament was apparent; he was pregnant! It must’ve happened days before the Shift, and now he was the one with a new life growing inside of him. He had tried to mentally prepare himself as soon as he became a woman, but this was more than he was ready for! This couldn’t be happening to him!

While You Wait

“The way I see it, you’ve got two problems here,” Elliot explained, “The first is the problem with your car’s engine. I can fix it in a few hours. That’s easy. The other problem is the fact that we somehow switched bodies when you walked into my shop. That one I can’t help with; I’ve got no idea how it happened. I’m not saying I can complain. It feels good to be about twenty years younger again -- not that I would’ve ever chosen to be a woman. I can still fix your car while we wait to see if this all works itself out, or we can just wait if you’d prefer not to see your hands get a little dirty. It’s up to you.”

Powers

William had gotten into witchcraft a few years ago, but he had never been particularly good at it. He kept practicing spells, but anything complex would fizzle out or underwhelm. Then he found a simple spell that would supposedly boost his powers. He went into the park in the middle of the night to cast it.

He blacked out and woke the next morning. He didn’t feel more powerful, but he did feel quite strange. As he looked down at his body, he realized why. The damn spell had transformed him into a woman! And not only that, he appeared to have a pretty nice body with a small, red, leather dress. He figured he must have messed up.

He sighed. But then he tried another spell -- teleportation to get back home. He knew it was a long shot, as that spell never worked for him; however, this time it did. It seemed weird, but maybe transforming into a woman was in fact, a way to boost his powers...

Warned

Jenny turned away. She still couldn’t believe what had happened. Her friends had warned her not to sleep with Gavin; they told her about the rumors he was into weird stuff. But she never expected that weird stuff to include body swapping. She pressed him on some ground rules about what they could do or couldn’t do in each other’s bodies, but he didn’t care. He claimed her body was his now, and he was going to do whatever he wanted. She didn’t want to watch as he was the one now in control of her body. It felt too weird. Sure, Gavin had been cute, but she never wanted anything like this. This was going to be a problem!

Average

It had been an error, a simple miscalculation when activating his invention, but as a result, Milton had spent the past month waking up each day in a different body. In the first week, he calculated a way to stop the swapping at any time, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t seem to increase the probability of getting back into his own body. By the two week mark, he realized he’d have to settle for a body that was merely suitable enough -- this, however, turned out to be quite difficult.

One day he woke up as a baby, the next an old man, and one day an adult film star. He was starting to think he’d be swapping forever. And one day he woke up the body of a woman around his same age. He dismissed it at first, he was pretty sure he didn’t want to be stuck as a woman for the rest of his life. But as the day went on, he realized it might not be so bad. She had mostly plain clothes, her proportions weren’t outlandish like a few bodies he had in the past, she seemed genuinely average. There was a comfort in average.

On the street, he looked down at his unremarkable outfit and decided this was it. This was the body he was going to keep. He only needed a few small parts to construct what he needed, then this would be who he was forever...

The Solution to All of Life's Problems

When Aaron passed out and he awoke to not only find himself in a strange house but also in an unfamiliar body, he thought he was dreaming. As time passed, it felt less and less like a dream. When he turned on the TV and saw all sorts of news reports about some sort of body swapping event, he realized he wasn’t dreaming. He was a woman now, and he just had to deal with that. Of course, he decided quickly that the best way to deal with that was to go into this woman’s kitchen and open up a bottle of wine. It didn’t solve this problem, but it certainly didn’t make it any worse!

Around the World (Part 2)

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Getting home turned out to be not so easy for Jason. He had to prove he really was to not only his home country, but also to the country where he ended up to a bunch of people who didn’t speak the same language as him. The process took time, he needed to figure out where the woman he now was lived at so that he wasn’t homeless while everything was processed. It took nearly a year before he got the call.

Finally getting home again felt great. He loved reconnecting with all his (now also swapped) friends. There were also things that felt weird. Food tasted different -- almost weird. He wasn’t sure if this was his new body’s differing taste buds, or if he just got used to the flavors overseas in the past year. He found himself dropping foreign words into his conversations. He had never learned the language, but he did pick up a few things -- mostly swears. He would often daydream about going back...

Around the World

When the Great Shift happened, most people swapped bodies with someone within a few feet of them. Over 99% of people swapped with someone within a mile radius. Every now and again, someone swapped bodies with someone a considerable distance away. 

Jason, for instance, found himself halfway across the globe in a new body as a result of the Great Shift. While most people were challenged by the fact that they found themselves in a new body, Jason had the added complication of trying to understand what was going on with no one around being able to explain in a language he knew that the same thing was happening to them. He felt lost and confused, and he knew he had nowhere to turn for help.

His only saving grace seemed to be due to the fact that he had swapped into a body located near a major tourist attraction, and he eventually found someone who could speak the same language.

Holler (Part 2)

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It all slowly cam back to him. Jake remembered the job he had at the PR firm, and the cupcakes he needed to pick up for the girls in the office. He remembered his name was actually Aida now, which is what his mom would’ve named him if he had been born a girl.

Luckily, it seemed he wasn’t forgetting anything about being Jake or who he had been. Instead, he was like all this new information was just building on top of everything he knew about himself.

Sure, now he knew how to style a client, but he still remembered everything about miter joints. He could rehash all the latest celebrity gossip and the cheat codes of his favorite video games. He knew how to deal with a period while remembering peeing standing up.

He was very worried that old knowledge would fade, but it never seemed to. In fact, there was a sort of curse to that, because he still couldn’t shake how bad he felt for catcalling that woman the morning his transformed. He couldn’t shake it no matter how hard he tried.

Holler (Part 1)

Jake had always been a little uncomfortable when the guys at the construction site hollered at a passing woman. But after a few weeks, they all started making fun of him for not joining in. And so, against his better judgement, the next time he saw an attractive woman pass, he decided to lead the charge. The other guys cheered him on. Jake immediately felt bad as the woman seemed to frown and increased the speed in her step. It started with a bad feeling in the put of his stomach. It grew from there. After about an hour, he was getting tingles and he felt parts of his body go numb. 

A little more time passed and things got really weird. Jake could tell the hair on his head was now rapidly growing out. He swore his beard was thinning too. His arms and legs felt more slender.

By lunchtime, the changes were undeniable. He had become a female version of himself. And once lunch was over, even his clothes had changed to a fashionable version of what he had been wearing. His boots were now heels, his overalls now a cute leather outfit.

He walked back to the construction site, but instead of being welcome, he was greeted to the same sorts of hoots and hollers that women got when passing by. Jake realized this was no longer where he worked, but much like his physical changes, the mental affects of his transformation were happening slowly.

Gambling Problem

“Ally, I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry,” Ed begged.

“I told you to stop gambling,” Ally replied calmly, “You said you stopped gambling. Yet somehow you managed to come home today with the body of some white girl because you wagered your own body in a card game? How did you even do that? How is that even possible? You’re lucky I even believe you. Have you thought about what you’re going to tell your work? Your boss? Do you think they’ll magically believe you and let you keep your job? You fucked this up, Ed. You are going to lose that job. We’ll probably lose this house. It’s still entirely possible you’ll lose me. You need to fix this.”

Something Wrong

Jared pulled his friend, Peter, into the women’s bathroom and slammed him against the wall, demanding answers.

“You said we’d be swap with our sisters for 24 hours, and it’s been a week,” Jared yelled, “And each day, it’s getting worse. I can apply makeup perfectly, I can coordinate outfits -- I find myself CARING about coordinating an outfit -- I don’t even want to tell you the way I’ve been looking at guys these days. It’s not just that this weird spell you cast transformed my body into Alice’s, I think I’m becoming Alice...even down to the way I think. You need to undo this. You need to reverse this. I need to get back to normal.”

“You will,” Peter said nervously, “I mean, you are. That’s sort of how the spell works. Your personality, your memories, everything about you will become like Alice so that it’s like you never swapped at all. It was all just supposed to happen faster, so that we wouldn’t even notice. I don’t know what I did wrong.”

Sweet Candy

“No! I want the candy from the top shelf!” Jake demanded.

Ron reached up to comply before suddenly turning around to snap back, “You know, just because you swapped into the body of some brat doesn’t mean you have to act like one. And just because I swapped into the body of that brat’s mom doesn’t mean I have to listen to you! In fact, maybe I should be telling you what to do in this mother-child relationship!”

Jake looked like he was about to cry, but Ron wasn’t buying it.

“No,” Ron continued to insist, “I know what you’re doing. You’re trying to play off my new motherly hormones, and it’s kind of working. But I also know we’re both grown men here, and I know that you’re still checking out y new ass while turning on the water works. It’s gross, man! If I could abandon you here, I would, but as long as I’m in the body of this mom, I guess I have to play the part. But that doesn’t mean I have to buy you this goddamn candy.”

Hands Up

After hearing a sharp yell the moment he rested his hands on his knees, Matt quickly put his hands up and turned in the direction of the shout.

“Okay, okay,” He sighed, “See! Your hands aren’t touching any part of your body. But, seriously, I’m going to have to at some point -- we swapped bodies, Carla! At some point I’m going to have to change clothes or use the bathroom or shower, and then these hands are invariably going to touch some place you feel uncomfortable with me touching. I’ve respected your wishes so far, but you’re going to have to be a little bit reasonable here as well.”

Carla scowled in Matt’s direction. She knew he was right, but the thought of Matt being inside her body still grossed her out. She didn’t want him in there, and she certainly didn’t want him touching anything while he was. The best she could hope for was that they’d swap back as mysteriously as they swapped in the first place and soon...

Free Vacation

Zach had been pretty psyched to win a vacation to an exotic island. Of course, after embarking, he soon found out the resort was more than a little odd, it was downright magical.  Upon arriving on the island, each guest would swap bodies with another arriving guest. Finding himself in a woman’s body was completely unexpected for Zach, but he decided to roll with it as best he could. However, just because he was a woman now didn’t mean he knew anything about actually being a woman.

Evan doing something like putting on a bikini was a near impossible task. The bikini bottoms were logical enough, but the way the straps crossed on the top made it difficult for Zach to figure out. He did his best. It felt a little tight and he was pretty sure something was wrong, but everything was covered up enough to hit the beach.

He realized there were likely to be plenty of other things that were going to be difficult to figure out, but this vacation was only for a few weeks. And, plus, it was free, after all.

On Hold

“Look, I think I’ve been holding long enough,” Mitch said with growing impatience, “I think you sent me the wrong product and I need --”

Mitch grumbled as he was put on hold again. He had been on the phone for over an hour now. It was only two days earlier when he went online to buy a product guaranteed to bulk him up. Thanks to advances in technology, workouts were a thing of the past. Now you could just order a product that could use tech to instantly give you six-pack abs, bigger muscles, or lose inches off your waist -- and would even morph your clothes to match. Of course, sometimes screw ups happen. Mitch was sent the wrong product and now from the neck down, instead of looking like a male bodybuilder, he looked like a female super model -- and was, in fact, female in all the ways that counted. To compound the problem, he couldn’t seem to get anyone on the phone to help him fix the problem. When they finally gave him a solution, Mitch wasn’t happy with what he heard.

“Eight weeks?” He shouted, “What do you mean it’s back-ordered? I’m going to be stuck like this for eight weeks?”