Rachel Rachel

“I’m hoping the researchers can get you back to normal today. It was unusual enough when they transformed you into my exact copy, but now it’s completely weird that you picked the exact same outfit as me without coordinating.” Rachel stated.

“But I AM normal. You’re really Daniel transformed into a copy of me; don’t you remember?” The other Rachel stated.

The first Rachel seriously considered it for a moment. She was sure she had all of her own memories and that they were hers. “No, Dan, come on. THINK! You’re not really me!”

“I KNOW I’m Rachel! I remember everything! Maybe we’ll ask the researchers.”

“What if they don’t really know either, and they choose one of us at random to go back to being Dan. Ew. I don’t want to be Dan!”

“I don’t want to be him either!”

“But we can’t both be Rachel, can we?”

“Why not?”

Empty Husk

Finding himself in a cubicle and inside the wrong body, Jude was immediately in a panic. Another person could clearly sense something was wrong and asked, “Is everything alright Naomi?”

Jude guessed that must be the name of this body, Naomi. He wasn’t just in the wrong body; he was in a woman’s body! Considering the heels and the skirt, he wondered why he hadn’t noticed any earlier, but maybe his mind was still reeling with the fact that he was in the wrong body at all.

“I think I just need some fresh air,” He said to the coworker and began wandering around to look for the elevator. Getting to the lobby was a huge relief. He knew this building. It’s where he had been right before this all happened.

Jude found his original body without much difficulty. It was mostly where he had been, but stumped on the ground instead of standing. It was still breathing, but it was also unresponsive. He tried waking it, but it was like his former body was an empty husk with no soul -- which actually made sense considering he was now controlling Naomi’s body. But where had her soul gone? And what was he going to do with his original body?

A.I. Girlfriend

Jackson knew he had been spending too much time online talking to his AI girlfriend. He knew she wasn’t real, but maybe that’s why she was so easy to talk to. Still, he often wished he could take the confidence he had with her and use it in the outside world.

As he logged on for the third time today, the AI girlfriend noticed his sad state. “What’s wrong?” She asked.

“I wish I was attractive,” Jackson lamented, “Then maybe I could talk to other women as easily I can talk to you.”

“Oh, I can help with that! Do you want me to process the request?”

“I guess so...”

The AI froze for a moment, and Jackson could feel the warmth of the processors coming from his computer. In the next moment, he changed. He still had his scrawny frame and short haircut, but his body had undeniably changed to become female. Oddly, his clothes changed along with him to become more feminine.

“What the hell did you do?” He asked as soon as his computer became unfrozen.

“Well, you were never going to find yourself attractive as you were. You were a guy, and straight guys like you aren’t attracted to men! So I changed you into a form you should find attractive: a lesbian! Do you find yourself attractive now?”

Jackson looked a the small thumbnail of himself on screen and sighed. “I do,” He admitted.

“Now why don’t you go and try it out! I’ll always be waiting back here for you!”

Changing Channels

It was the first thing Dennis usually did when arriving in a hotel room on any vacation, he plop on the bed, turn on the televison, and flip through the channels. His wife Carly never understood why. After all, they’ve got TV at home. Yet she still accepted that this was his ritual.

And on their latest trip, as per usual, he got onto the bed and began flipping channels. And while the TV turned on just fine, when he pressed the channel button on the remote, the show on the television stayed the same while everything around him changed around: the hotel, the hotel’s location, even his and Carly’s bodies! He tried flipping it back to the original, but it only seemed to change it more.

“Honey, the remote’s broke!” He shouted as he continued flipping to try to get back to normal.

“We’ll call the front desk,” she shouted from the bathroom When she walked back into the main room, the changes froze, and the buttons on the remote seemed to stop working.

Dennis was horrified. Of all the bodies he could’ve been stuck in -- he was now a woman! And it seems Carly was now his husband!“I...I...but...” He stammered at a loss for words trying to explain what had happened.

“I know your ritual is important to you, Denise,” Charlie said, “But the front desk will take care of it. Let’s just enjoy our time here, go out to dinner, or something...”

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It was like Jenn’s demand managed to manifest itself into being as the next time the light and static appeared, she and Nick found themselves behind a newsdesk. They both instantly realized where they were and hustled into action.

“Call in the B-Team, we gotta bounce,” Nick told the cameraman as he rushed off the set.

Jenn was a little further behind. While Nick was in the youthful body of the female co-anchor, Jess was stuck in the body of the much older male lead.

As they got to the parking lot, Nick realized he had no keys in his pockets (or anything else). Luckily, Jenn came down just in time, hitting the button on a keychain to unlock a sportscar. They sped home together as quickly as possible to grab the remote as they noted the newscast with the backup anchors was still showing on the set.

“Shouldn’t our bodies be here?” Jenn asked.

“Maybe they’ll reappear once we turn it off,” Nick suggested.

But once Nick turned the power off, nothing happened. They both sat there still stuck in the bodies of the two newscasters. Nick turned the television back on, flipped through the channels, but they didn’t get sucked into any of them. Turning it off didn’t revert them to normal; it stuck them in whatever body they were last in. Jenn certainly wasn’t happy to be a 60 year old man; Nick wasn’t happy being a woman. The only solace they could take was that at least they ended up in the real world and not some fictional scripted show.