Get Back Home (Part 4)

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Kyle didn’t know what else to do but ring the buzzer on his apartment. The door was unlocked without a word spoken over the intercom. He walked up three flights of stairs to see his own body in the hallway.

“Oh, thank God,” Kyle said before explaining everything about how he obviously swapped bodies, how he made it way back, and so on.

“I guess I’m sympathetic,” His own body replied, “But swapping bodies? I think I’d know if I wasn’t me. But do you need me to refer you to a shelter or a psychiatrist or something?”

Kyle was outraged, but he didn’t have the words. He knew he was who he was; why was the woman in his body playing him like this? And what could he say? Anyone who saw them surely wouldn’t believe him. Body swapping was something completely unheard of -- at least until it happened to Kyle this morning.

Get Back Home (Part 3)

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At some point Kyle ditched the heels. Walking in his bare feet was painful, but it was still less painful than continuing on in those uncomfortable shoes. He also realized he wasn’t far from his apartment complex anyway -- it was just on the other side of the highway. He groaned. Luckily, traffic was light but the trash (including quite a few broken bottles) on the side of the road made him regret tossing the heels out earlier. Still, he was pretty happy to have his goal in sight, even if he hadn’t yet figure out how he was going to get into his apartment...

Get Back Home (Part 2)

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Getting back home was not easy. Kyle didn’t seem to have any sort of purse or pockets, so he couldn’t find any wallet or phone. He was going to have to walk, and just use his best sense of direction. None of that was particularly easy. Remembering which streets went where was a challenge, and the heels were obnoxious to walk in. But what was the worst were the stares from guys he’d pass on the street. They’d look at Kyle in ways that made him uncomfortable in ways that he never imagined he could feel like. He wondered if he had ever doe the same to women. He told himself when he got his body back, he’d be a better person...that is IF he got his body back. A chill ran over him as he realized this feeling of being stared at might be something he’d have to get used to.

Get Back Home (Part 1)

What the hell is going on here? Kyle was taken aback to be standing on the sidewalk wearing heels and a yellow dress. He had just been at home relaxing, and now he was outside dressed as a woman? Or rather, it seemed, he actually WAS a woman. He could see the long hair on his shoulders, and imagined that he looked like some sort of dumb blond bimbo. He moved awkwardly at first as he got used to this body and the heels. He needed to get back to his apartment!

Accept the Reality

Bradley looked down and tried to fathom why he was suddenly wearing different clothes. The baggy red sweater and tight, shiny black pants certainly weren’t his style. They weren’t even pants, they were more like...leggings? He tugged on them gently, beginning to wonder why his legs looked so skinny. And were his nails painted? None of it seemed to make any sense. The reality of being in a completely different body was such an outlandish and impossible idea, that he hadn’t even accepted it as fact yet. But it was fact. He was now in the body of a woman...

Fortunate

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When Andrew caught the deadly disease, he knew he was fortunate enough to be able to afford the most expensive treatments available. However, attempt after attempt proved unsuccessful. The final solution was certainly extreme. He was placed under, his brain transplanted into a new body, and he awoke in the hospital several days later. The disease was cured, but he was now in the body of a woman. He couldn’t move yet; his brain was still figuring his new body out. But he knew it was only a matter of time until he continue on with life.

Weighted

With no doubts in her mind about it, Johanna absolutely hated the results of the Great Shift. She had been a personal trainer before the Shift, but she lost all of her clients once they saw her new body; Johanna had swapped into the body of an overweight woman. Her boyfriend, Sven, offered to help her out. He too was a personal trainer, and, coincidentally enough, swapped into Johanna’s old body. Working out with Sven was difficult. She couldn’t push her new body in the ways she was used to, an Sven always asked for more from her as well. Despite giving it her all, she never seemed to lose any weight either! It only got worse a few weeks later when Sven decided to break up with her. He told Johanna he found himself much less attracted to women now that he was one himself, but Johanna was convinced he simply wasn’t interested in larger women like her! He did, however, to stay on as her trainer. She wanted to cry. It felt like her entire world was falling apart.

City of Lovers

Paris is the city of lovers, and Mario had arrived just a few hours ago with his girlfriend, Lana, hoping to absorb the feeling. Unfortunately, not even the wonderful city of Paris was immune to the effects of the Great Shift. Mario soon found himself lost, swapped into the body of a random French woman.

Lana knew the city and the language better than him. He was mostly walking the streets alone, struggling with the high heels on his feet. Most people were too panicked to help him, or simply couldn’t or refused to speak English in order to do so. 

As the hours passed and people calmed down, a few guys (or maybe women now in guys’ bodies) seemed more willing to help. However, it seemed they were more interested in helping themselves make a love connection with Mario’s now gorgeous body than helping him find his girlfriend or hotel. 

Adjust

Chad bolted up quickly. He could just barely tell that he was in a hospital or maybe a doctor’s office. His head was spinning; he felt woozy and disoriented; his vision was blurry. Soon a nurse and doctor rushed in.

“Chad, you need to lie back down,” The doctor instructed him.

“What’s going on?” Chad paused, reflecting on the sound coming out of his mouth, “What’s wrong with my voice.”

“There’s nothing wrong. You were in a car accident. We were able to save you by transplanting your brain into a new body. We were afraid you wouldn’t wake up at all, but, please you are weak.”

“New body? What body?”

“Please, your still adjusting to it. You’re in the body of a young woman named Nadine. Things probably feel strange. Don’t worry; you’ll adjust with time...”

Which is it?

“Look, I get it. The last thing I wanted was to be a woman for the rest of my life, to be stuck in your body. But I’ve also got to think at this from a logical perspective,” Chris explained, “We were both kidnapped by that weird guy in the club. He locked us in this room, and ran experiments on us. He switched our freeking brains, for God’s sake, leaving me stuck in your body and you stuck in mine. We’ve been looking for a way out practically since we got here. I can’t explain how we got this window unlocked so suddenly, but I also don’t think we can pass up our chance to escape. I realize we’re probably going to be stuck like this, but do you really think that psycho would ever swap us back any way? Or ever let us go? You got to admit this is our best shot at a normal life. Now you can either come with me, or take your chances here by yourself, so which is it?”

Organized Chaos

When the Great Shift happened, Greg would’ve likely appreciated a moment to truly gather himself. He barely registered that he now had a body that was not his own when he realized he was also standing in front of a crowd with a microphone in his hand. It seemed everyone in the crowd had also swapped bodies, and the responsibility to calm them was in his hand.

“I know this is probably pretty scary for everyone,” Greg said before he even paused to swallow or acknowledge how high pitched his voice sounded, “But we should probably all be calm. I know I’m not in my own body right now, as I’m guessing most of you aren’t either.” Greg paused again to push long hair out of his face -- something he was certainly not used to, “I think I’m just saying don’t blame each other, and don’t panic. Try to find some way to identify who you were, and if you can find your former body, try to coordinate.”

Greg spoke for about twenty minutes, and it resulted in one of the most organized moments of chaos amidst the Shift. It wasn’t until he finished speaking that Greg truly noticed his new body aside from the small inconveniences that were getting in the way as he spoke. He was now a woman of Asian descent. The clothes he wore were tight and revealing; he couldn’t imagine the shorts he wore being any tighter. He had no purse that he could find, but he presumed someone had to know this body, as she had been on some sort of a stage holding the microphone he ended up using. He just had to figure it all out.

The Universe Is Collapsing

Doctor Bradley Ramirez had hoped the collider he had invented would unlock the mysteries of the universe. Instead, he was afraid that he accidentally doomed the world instead. After his first test, things around his lab started going missing. Then he’d find things in odd places -- like his computer mouse randomly being in the toaster. Then things got weirder as he noticed the words of a book printed on the inside of his toilet. The evidence was starting to be undeniable -- the world was collapsing in on itself. Nothing was truly disappearing, but things were being merged. Just as he hoped to bunker down to fix it, he too was merged. Luckily, it was with another human. He was lounging on a beach thousands of miles from his lab in a bikini. He had a woman’s body, but he was still himself on the inside. Before, he could even think, he was merged again. This time he still had on the bikini, but also a coat and snowboots. He was on a mountain somewhere, and still certainly a woman. This was driving him crazy. He couldn’t fix anything if he couldn’t stay in one spot! He also realized at any moment, he could be the one to lose his mind in a merge. He theorized the world had little more than 24 hours left.

But the oddest thing happened next. The merging slowly stopped. Sure, there were a few people like Bradley, in the wrong body, and other odd sights, like a bear with plants growing out of its back. But things had stabilized. Bradley was sure he had the time now to fix things, maybe even reverse things. But he worried about trying again. Could he make things worse?

Lecture

Professor Wilson Reynolds had students fall asleep in his lectures before, but a classmate did usually wake them up when it was time to leave. To say that Wilson was a little annoyed by the young woman slightly snoring in the back long after everyone had left the room would be an understatement. He walked behind her seat quietly and kicked. Just as he did so, he felt a jolt like he was waking up from a dream. He realized he was now sitting down in the seat he had just kicked; he was somehow now the body of his own student.

Despite his panic, the student in his body was even more broken up. She ran out of the room crying; Wilson was nowhere near fast enough to catch up. He strolled calmly back into the classroom. A new group of students would be filtering in soon, and he’d have to give his lecture despite having the body of this slacker.

His biggest concern was if the students would take him seriously. it was early in the semester, so most probably didn’t know him -- though he did have a bit of a reputation. Even still, he’d imagine it might be hard seeing a woman no older than they were giving a lecture on advanced physics.

It seemed, however, that most of the next class didn’t even show up. The swap didn’t just swap Professor Reynolds and a student, the entire school had been swapped around. People were panicking, and no one was going to class.

Snow (Part 2)

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With the snow coming down, Jason decided he had waited long enough, and proceeded to head back home. He figured he should’ve seen this coming. The reason they both had swapped in the first place was neither had felt comfortable in their own body, and he had to admit that the past week had felt very right. In Xue’s body, everything just felt right. He could only assume she felt the same way about being in his body.

He had lived her life for the week -- lived in her apartment, did her job. Despite some differences, none of it felt out of place. He could just keep it up indefinitely. He was no longer Jason in Xue’s body; she was Xue. That was who she was now, and the man she used to be was now Jason.

Snow

Swapping bodies with Xue was supposed to be temporary. After spending a week in each other’s bodies, Jason was not ready to swap back yet but still arrived at their meet up spot.

Xue hadn’t yet arrived, so he waited. He did his best to appreciate her body one last time, thinking she’d come any moment and they’d swap back.

He thought about the feel of the leather pants he chose to wear that day. They were a little sexier and more feminine than the jeans Xue usually wore, but a lot less so than a lot of dresses Jason had worn throughout the week. He did it out of respect; he knew Xue would probably be pissed to be wearing a dress when she got her own body back.

There was a lot to think about, and the minutes turned into hours. And after some time passed, it began to snow.

Jason was starting to think Xue wasn’t going to show up.

Mom, Please!

“Mom, please,” Mike begged, “I was mad at you and bad when you moved us here, but then I found that weird body swapping device in the barn in our backyard and things at least got interesting. You have no idea how many swaps I made before you caught me in there after I swapped with our neighbor, Lindsey. Then you activated the thing, and I never expected you to end up in her body, and I certainly didn’t want to be in your body. And, yeah, I guess it was fun for a while, but Lindsey wants her body back, Mom! Please!”

“Maybe I should keep this body a little longer to teach you a lesson,” Mike’s mom replied, “And maybe if you spend a few more days as me, you’ll understand exactly how hard it is to be me.”

“But you can’t punish, Lindsey, Mom! It’s not fair.”

“Fine. We’l go back to the barn, and I will swap with Lindsey. She’ll be normal; I’ll be you; and you can stay me for a little longer. Does THAT seem fair to you, young man?”

Someday

Today was supposed to be the happiest day of Stephen’s life -- the day he married Melissa, the woman he had been dating for nearly five years and proposed to last year. But a few weeks ago, a strange accident caused him to swap bodies with Melissa’s sister, Alana. Both he and Alana decided to keep the swap quiet; they hoped they could find a way to get back to their own bodies. As the wedding grew closer, they were both becoming resigned to the fact that may not happen. They knew canceling the wedding would break Melissa’s heart. Revealing the truth and having Stephen go through with the wedding in Alana’s body seemed out of the question; it would be be one thing to convince Melissa of the truth, but a whole other to not perceive the whole thing as two sisters marrying each other.

So they decided to continue lying. Alana would continue to pretend to be Stephen as long as was needed. She loved her sister well enough to work through any awkwardness, and Stephen loved Melissa enough to realize she deserved every happiness. Being in Alana’s body was still awkward for Stephen, but getting all dressed up for a fancy wedding as a woman was even wilder than he expected. He knew watching Melissa get married was going to be the hardest thing he ever had to do, and he knew living Alana’s life from this point forward was probably going to be the second hardest. But he was thankful that he knew Melissa would still be in his life in some capacity now that he was her sister, and he still help onto the hope he’d find a way to swap back...someday.

Bundled Up

Russell never used to be able to understand why his girlfriend started the bundle up the second the weather got just a tiny bit cooler. Heck, he’d be wearing shorts until November while she was wearing coats at the end of August. At least, he never understood it until the Great Shift swapped their bodies. Sure enough now that he was the one in her body, he found himself all bundled up in September. He hated it. The winters felt more bitter and colder than he ever remembered, and while he used to love a nice blast of AC in the summer, he now hated it. He figured it all something about her biology, but he was still having trouble getting used to it, even a year later.

Shoes

Matt still remembered what it was like before the Great Shift. He owned two pairs of shoes, one pair of sneakers and one pair of dress shoes. When the sneakers wore out, he’d buy new ones. But finding himself in a woman’s body as a result of the Shift, he found his thoughts on shoes changing. He now owned over a hundred pairs. He’d go to stores to look at shoes he’d dream of owning -- some much too far out of his budget. He couldn’t figure out why his attitude about this one fashion item had changed so much, and he couldn’t seem to stop himself either. Psychologically, he still felt like himself, the same Matt he always was. But it was just this one thing that was different.

Games

“Couldn’t we do something else besides playing video games?” Aidan questioned to his two friends, “I mean, we’d waste our time with these games when we were guys. Now that we have these women’s bodies -- I don’t know, it just feels like a unique opportunity.”

“Relax,” Thom retorted, “You can play winner, dude. You’ll get a chance.”

“That’s not what I was trying to say, but...fine.”

As Thom handed off the game controller to Aidan and he started playing, he couldn’t help but thinking back to swapping with these women, but it was still a little hazy.

“What if we don’t swap back?” Aidan asked, “What if we’re stuck like this.”

“As long as it doesn’t affect our game, I’m fine with it,” Jonathan finally interjected before added in reaction to one of Aidan’s moved, “No fair!”

HR (Part 2)

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In less than five minutes, John found himself swapped with Carmela. To his surprise, he was already in the middle of working -- which seemed weird since she wasn’t scheduled to arrive until late at night. That is, until he realized Carmela wasn’t working at his office right now, but in a different one; she had two jobs. He could feel his body was tired of working so much; he could feel his bones aching. However, he knew the rules HR had established. If didn’t suck up and bear it for the week, he’d be stuck in this body forever. He as just going to have to deal with it.

HR (Part 1)

“Do we really have to do this? This is ridiculous,” John complained as he sat in the HR office.

“It’s how sensitivity training is working this year, John. Everyone draws a name from this pile and swaps bodies for a week with the person whose name is on the card. Do you honestly think I’d be sitting here in Marcia’s body if I had a choice?” Howard explained.

John grumbled as he reluctantly drew a card and read it, “Carmela Diaz? Who the hell is that?”

“She works the late night cleaning shift. You might’ve seen her when you get in at 9AM as she’s leaving. Should be an interesting week for you.”

Boyfriend (Part 2)

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Julie looked all over for Marc, and she eventually found him down by the lake. He didn’t seem particularly happy to see her.

“What the hell, Jules?” He asked her. She immediately knew he was referring to the dress she was wearing.

“I didn’t have a choice! I had to come looking for you!” She replied.

“And you didn’t think, ‘Hey, let me find some clothes first to not make Marc look like an idiot?’ I’ve just been here the entire time; I didn’t want to make YOU look bad.”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. So then we should switch clothes or something?”

Marc’s heart sank. It was one thing for Julie to be running around his body wearing a dress. Yeah, that was embarrassing. But switching clothes meant that he was going to actually be wearing a dress. He wasn’t sure he could ever live that down -- even though no one else would really know. He knew he looked like Julie right now, so he should probably dressing like her anyway. Plus, it would get Julie out of that dress and into something less humiliating. He just wanted to be back in his own body and not have to think about any of this mess.

Boyfriend (Part 1)

Julie was scared. She had no idea what was happening to her. All she feel were sharp pains and her dress was getting tighter. By the time the pain stopped, she was glad she hadn’t burst out of her dress. She also couldn’t help but notice her now muscular chest and hairy legs. She had a man’s body! She rushed to a mirror to discover she wasn’t just any man; she had become her boyfriend, Marc.

She knew she had to go find him to try to figure out what had just happened, but she was also sure Marc would be very upset to have people see him out dressed like this. She knew there wasn’t much choice; she wasn’t at home where she could change. It was going to have to be a risk she had to take!

Drowned

John looked back to see his own body dead and floating in the pool. He supposed he could call an ambulance, but he paused for a moment to think about what had happened. He was a good swimmer; there was no reason why he suddenly started to drown. It was like he just forgot for a moment, then everything the flashed. The next thing he knew, he was standing at the edge of the pool, watching his former body drown. But he was doing it from another body -- a woman’s body. He could remember everything about himself -- about being John -- but he also realized he had forgotten one thing; he had forgotten how to swim. He knew he used to know, but the knowledge just didn’t seem to transfer to this new body.

And so he slowly continued out of the pool and called for help. He pretending to not have any connection to his former body. Heck, he didn’t know much about his new body, so it probably wasn’t a lie. There were going to be a lot of questions, and John needed to start finding answers.

Family Therapy

“This is the dumbest family therapy session Mom has ever signed us up for.” Kevin whined to his sister, “Swapping bodies with each other for an entire week? Who came up that? I can’t believe I’m stuck as you, Crystal. Do you even know what I just had to go through?”

“Yeah, Kevin,” Crystal retorted calmly, “I’m fully aware of my cycles, and you know I have to go through that every month, right?”

“Ugh, it’s gross.”

“Well, I’m not exactly happy being in Mom’s older body either, but I think I’m also picking up parts of her personality. I feel calmer, wiser, more patient -- and I think you might be picking up some of my bitchiness. God, I can’t believe I’m admitting that about myself.”

“I’m bitchy because I’m experiencing PMS for the first time, Crystal. It sucks.”

The Wedding

The Great Shift took place only two months before Walter and Laura’s wedding. While Laura ended up in Walter’s body, Walter ended up the body of a woman they didn’t know -- and couldn’t seem to identify. Despite the craziness of the world and their now new bodies, the couple decided to go through with the wedding regardless. A few plans needed to be changed, such as getting Laura’s dress altered to fit Walter’s new body. But as the ceremony grew closer, Laura and Walter realized something else’s about Walter’s new body -- it was pregnant.

It meant Laura’s dress would need to be altered once again, and Walter felt more than a little nervous about giving birth in a few months. Before the Great Shift happened, they had talked about trying to start a family after the wedding. Now it seems that it was going to happen a little bit sooner than either of them would have anticipated; and of course, neither would’ve expected it would be Walter the one giving birth.

Freedom

Paul and Claire tried to make their relationship work after the Great Shift, even though they were now both in the bodies of women. Paul still felt like he was attracted to women, and Claire had always considered herself a little bisexual, so they assumed it would work. 

As time passed, Paul was still fairly committed. He certainly realized he was now attracted to men as well, and more than a little curious about experimenting with one, he knew he still loved Claire. On the other hand, Claire, despite knowing how attractive Paul’s female body was, realized she just wasn’t interested. Her current body’s hormones seemed interested in men exclusively; though she certainly gave the relationship with Paul her best efforts.

Eventually, Paul moved out. He realized he didn’t own much; most of it could fit in a suitcase. Even most of the clothes he wore had been borrowed from Claire with just a few outfits he bought himself sprinkled in. Luckily, she let him keep a few. He realized he was starting a new life on his own. He could be anyone he wanted, go anywhere, do anything. In a way, he finally felt an odd sense of freedom.

Gifted

Mike never would’ve described himself as a good father. He didn’t even know he was a father until an ex of his contacted him on his daughter’s two year old birthday. He tried to just ignore her existence, and even that worked for another year or two. He tried a bit, but his heart just wasn’t into the girlie things his daughter wanted to do. On her fourth birthday, he figured he’d just buy her a nice present and be done with the child.

He wasn’t quite sure what compelled him to stop in the odd shop or why he was drawn to the music box with a ballerina inside. But it was a reasonable enough price, and the exactly the sort of thing his girlie daughter would love. On her birthday, he gave her the gift and simply headed out, thinking he’d never see her again. He was wrong.

The next morning, he awoke on a wooden floor with pink fluffy pillows all around. The light in the room seemed to be shaped like a keyhole. He quickly realized he was wearing silver heels, a pink tutu, and a tiara. He looked for a door, but there seemed to be no way out. Mike was panicking when a floor of light shone in the room. He felt compelled to dance, and he couldn’t stop himself from giving a robotic ballet performance to tinny music. As he looked around, he could see his young daughter towering over him, and he realized the horror of his situation. He was the miniaturized ballerina in his daughter’s music box!

Day Trip Through Time

“Is this safe?” Norma nervously asked her husband, Al.

“If my invention works as it should,” Al explained, “Your mind will travel fifty years into the future. You’ll inhabit someone else’s body for a day, then you’ll return. For me, it’ll feel like no time has gone by, but for you, well, you’ll be able to tell me all about your day trip to the future! Should we get started?”

Norma nodded. Al pressed the button.

“Did it work?” Al asked.

Norma took a moment to respond. When she did, she seemed to be speaking with a Brooklyn accident. “Did what work? What the f*ck is wrong with my voice? Why do I have f*cking tits? What the f*ck did you do to me? Where am I?”

Al quickly realized his miscalculation. Instead of sending his wife’s mind into the future for a day, he captured a mind from the future which was now inhabiting his wife’s body -- and he certainly hoped it would only be for a day! Calming the man down was no easy feat -- he was certainly not happy about being a woman -- but Al eventually managed to explain the situation. The man seemed skeptical, but he figured he could survive one day in the past as a woman.

Run Away (Part 2)

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The pain wasn’t going away easily, but Luke realized one good thing about the pain was that it distracted him from his new body. Even rubbing hairless legs was a little weird, but he’d be surely focusing on the parts he now lacked or gained as a result of becoming a woman. Thinking about running after his own body, and how his chest would likely bounce as he did, also seemed quite strange to him. He knew he’d have to get used to these things in the short term; he just hoped he would be able to do something about them soon enough.