Adaptation

When doctors explained what had happened, Miles didn’t believe it. The idea of a brain transplant was just something he couldn’t accept. He didn’t believe his own reflection and his body still felt numb from the surgery. It wasn’t until he saw his original body that it all set in.

Then it all hit him: his new smaller female body, his soft voice, all of it.

His old body still looked so healthy. It was weird to think it was so close to death. Then again, so was this woman’s brain that was now inside that body. Meanwhile, his own brain inside her body could live on -- but what kind of life would it be? How was he going to adapt to all of this?

Downward Mobility

Aaron had noticed Elin at one of his trips to Walmart. He felt a little bit weird about the fact that he had memorized her name, but he also couldn’t get her out of his head. He thought she was beautiful, and he had to accept that he might just be a little bit obsessed. Of course, he also tried to put that all out of his head, considering she was working at Walmart and he guessed she was in her early 20s; he was in his late 30s and was comfortably enjoying upward mobility at his office job.

But then he had to face his obsession head on when he woke up one day in Elin’s body.

Perhaps the most difficult thing for him to accept was how much of her beauty was because of her makeup routine, which he was not able to replicate. That meant as long as he was in her body, her tired eyes would be very clear; any flaws in her skin would be seen. When he arrived to her job at Walmart, he didn’t exactly feel beautiful. He didn’t even feel like Elin, no matter what the nametag said.

Split

“Well, this isn’t fair. I didn’t want to be a woman! How come I had to become the woman.”

“We’re both still me...or us? I think that machine just sort of split us into two people -- supposedly the two sides of us. Maybe you’re our feminine side?”

“I don’t feel feminine! I feel wrong! And that’s supposed to be art? I can’t wait until we re-merge at the end of this.”

The exhibit was certainly a unique one. Each person would go in as one person, come out as two -- their personality split down the middle in some meaningful way. Brian was certainly shocked to have one of his persons come out as female -- with the Brian in the female body particularly concerned about it...

Seahorses

My wife and I had both signed up for the human-animal hybrid experiments about a year ago. Some people got some pretty cool abilities from the program -- echolocation or amazing night vision and things like that. My wife and I didn’t notice any immediate changes, but our intimate time in the bedroom was more wild than I think either of us anticipated.

I also never anticipated that I would be the one to get pregnant from all those escapades -- but the growing belly was undeniable.

We ended up going back to the lab that conducted the experiments and found out our DNA had been fused with seahorse genes. As it turns out, they are the only species where the males actually get pregnant. So while other people got all these cool traits and abilities -- I got male pregnancy!

Like a Frankenstein