What To Do Next

Gary waited on the bench for an hour before Betsy finally arrived. The entire time he waited stuck in her body was uncomfortable, but he was so relieved when she finally showed up, he overlooked her tardiness.

“Thank God,” He said, “Now we can finally search for a way to swap our bodies back.”

“I don’t think so,” Betsy retorted, “I’m enjoying your body.”

“But people will get suspicious...my wife will figure it out in a second...and my job!”

“I told your wife. She doesn’t care that I’m the one in here now, and from what she tells me, your job isn’t that hard -- no matter how you try to make it sound like it is.”

And so Betsy left, leaving Gary sitting there alone once more. He had no idea what to do next.

Explore Together

Mark and Jan were the young couple who moved into the house next door in July, and my wife and became fast friends -- even though our kids had recently graduated and they were just looking to start a family. Jan and my wife started going to the same book club; Mark and I would watch the game together on Sunday.

When the Great Shift happened, I ended up in Jan’s body while Mark ended up in my wife’s. I wasn’t exactly comfortable being a woman, but there were worse swaps than ending up in the body of a good friend.

It only got weird several weeks later once the season restarted. Mark and I were hanging out when he made a suggestion to “explore together.” He told me it wouldn’t be cheating -- he’d be with his wife, and I would be with mine...technically. He had even told me he asked Jan, and she was okay with it.

She may have been...I was certainly not!

Turning My Dad into Me

Amalgamation

Ryan’s body had become an amalgamation of his various neighbors. He recognized the dress as one that Elle would wear heading down the elevator to a night at the club, the tattoos clearly belonged to Jorge, and the overall body was definitely Mrs. Shu’s.

The only thing left that Ryan could claim as his own was his mind. Though he could feel the other’s inside of him, begging for a moment of control. But what had caused him and several neighbors to merge into a single person? It didn’t make any sense; however, as he stepped out into the hallway of his apartment building, he soon discovered he wasn’t the only one in this strange situation.

Eggs

“What’s that awful smell?” My girlfriend asked as she walked into the kitchen shortly after waking up the morning after the Great Shift.

“I tried to cook us breakfast,” I explained. “I thought that since I was in a woman’s body that I’d know how to cook and stuff now.”

My girlfriend burst out laughing. “How can you possibly think there’s something inherent about someone’s gender that would make them good at cooking? I’m surprised you got dressed already. How did you manage to hook the bra?”

“What the bra?”

The way she looked at my chest sent a chill up my spine. I wasn’t sure if it was because she was looking at me and judging me the way a woman would judge another woman or if she was looking at me the way a man would look at a woman’s chest. Either way, the fact that she laughed again right after suddenly made me feel much more uncomfortable.