Hands (Part 1)

Michael was just pulling his car out of the driveway to head out on a week long business trip when it happened. He suddenly found himself back inside his own living room, sitting down on the couch. He lifted one hand.

It wasn’t his hand.

He recognized the hand. It was the one he had placed a ring on when he had gotten down on one knee to propose decades ago. It was the same hand that stopped wearing that ring after her hands had swollen up while pregnant with their first child twenty years ago.

How was he now have his own wife’s hand? How was he the one in control of it? The revelation hit slowly. It wasn’t just her hand.

Then he heard the crash.

The Witness

Nefarious

The sudden swap jolted Aaron. He didn’t know why he had become a woman, but he didn’t want to waste any time trying to figure it out. His first thought was simply to go find his original body. However, he soon found standing with the heels on his feet difficult, and walking would likely be impossible.

The solution of simply changing shoes seemed obvious enough, but that option was blocked when he discovered the shoes firmly locked onto his feet. He was starting to think this swap might be more nefarious.

He tried not to be deterred by the locks. Maybe there was a key somewhere, or maybe he could find a knife or scissors to simply cut the boots off of his feet. Of course, moving around to find any of these things wouldn’t be easy....

Not Angry

“It’s pretty safe to untie me.” Jeremy said calmly, “I’m not angry about this body swap thing. I’m actually kind of happy about being in this body.”

“How do I know you won’t try to kill me?” The mad scientist replied. “No one is happy to have their brain transplanted into a different body.”

“Maybe I’m the first. And maybe you don’t have a reason to trust me, but are you really going to just leave me tied up forever? What was the long term plan here?”

“Fine. Just be patient...”

Investment (Part 1)

Junior often threw his inheritance around on poor investments, usually nerds with big promises and poor follow-through. So today, he had decided to do some surprise visits.

He brought his girlfriend Audrey along, and their first stop was a guy named Roger. Junior had invested close to a million dollars on Roger’s mind-brain machine -- whatever it was.

To Junior’s surprise, Roger explained the device was ready for testing, but two volunteers were needed. Junior pointed to Audrey and Roger and counted: one, two. Roger tried to protest, but Junior wouldn’t take no for an answer. He was paying for this, and he wanted to see results.

And so Audrey and Roger stepped into two pods in the warehouse, and after some lights and other stuff they stepped out. Both of them claimed they swapped bodies. But Junior was skeptical.

Roger in Audrey’s body laughed while trying to affirm the swap happened. Audrey in Roger’s body nodded meekly in agreement.