Dog Gone

Cassie had been disoriented after the head swap. Finding herself on the body of a dog was a difficult situation to navigate! The dog didn’t have nearly the hard time she did and ran off almost instantly. It took her quite a while to find it again.

Except the dog’s head was very clearly not on her body anymore; it was on the body of some guy. She was now more concerned. Did this mean some guy was now running around the park with his head on her body? And if so, why would he let the dog just run off.

A chill ran down Cassie’s now canine spine. What if the man’s plan was to steal her body all along? What if he was doing something weird with it right now? No. No, it was impossible. He was sure to show up with her body any minute now. And maybe he’d know something about how or why they all swapped. Maybe he’d even have a way for them to get back to normal!

Karaoke Room (Part 2)

View Part 1 of Karaoke Room.

I didn’t think to look up right away after it happened. I probably should have. I guess my bros didn’t either. When we finally did, we soon realized we were all in the same situation. I immediately recognized their clothing, but their faces took me a minute.

“They checked in right after us. They’re in the next room.” I said finally realizing who we were, my voice sounding sweet and feminine with a slight accent -- though I couldn’t pull any useful language from my memory to go along with that accent.

“Yeah, the Asian chicks. I think I’m the cute one,” Pete said, still wearing his hoodie.

“They all look the same to me,” Nick replied.

“Dude, don’t be racist!”

“It’s not racist! I’m Asian now! It’s fine.”

They were both clearly as drunk as I was.

Gossip

I guess the news had dropped on one of those gossip sites while I was in transit. It was true, of course, but any time a reporter got close enough to ask me with a microphone I denied it.

Body swap? Of course not!

Was I actually a man in the body of a famous supermodel? Do you know how stupid you sound?

How did it happen? What sort of sci-fi bullsh*t tech do you think exists where body swapping is real?

It was easy to dismiss them. Body swapping did still seem insane and impossible. Yet I was living proof it could actually be done, I just didn’t want any of THEM to know that.

Liminal Spaces | Backrooms

Mixed (Part 1)

As I watched the blue glow fade into the distance, I knew it wasn’t coming back. I don’t know how I knew that; it was sort of similar to how I was the only one who noticed the changes it caused -- and now those changes were done. Whatever purpose it had in mixing my roommate up in the way it had, it was done with us now.

And Zuri and I were definitely mixed up. It had simply swapped our bodies at first -- and that was weird enough -- but then it started giving things back to me. My eyesight changed first when I got my original blue eyes back with their perfect 20/20 vision. Then my hair became blonde and more wispy -- it was inexplicably still able to maintain Zuri’s curls and style. Then it gave me back my pale skin while I maintained Zuri’s Black features. I saw the opposite changes on my body that Zuri now possessed -- though as I mentioned, I was the only one who noticed any of this.

I hoped it would continue changing us back, but that’s when it stopped. Obviously, I was stuck as a woman now, but I had no idea how to even begin to describe my new racial identity; maybe that was the exact thing the blue glow was trying to figure out...