They say that the Great Shift affected over 95% of the population -- that almost everyone on Earth swapped bodies with someone else. However, on the night it happened it felt like I was the only one. It was true in a way. I had just gotten home after tutoring some of my students who needed extra help in their studies. I had expected to relax. Instead there was that familiar flash and I was thrown onto a cold cement floor with loud bass beat thumping in my ears.
I had gone from being a quiet, male professor to being a scantily clad woman in a dance club. Out of everyone in the entire club, I was the only one who had swapped bodies with anyone else. People had thought I collapsed due to drinking or exhaustion. I had no idea that I should’ve just told them the truth. It had seemed impossible at the time, but as it turned out the same thing happened to just about everyone on the planet.
In hindsight, I couldn’t help but think about how long the odds were for something like that. As someone who teaches math, numbers are kind of my thing. Statistically, it was certainly POSSIBLE for me to be the only one affected, but the probability was still so unlikely that I’m sure there was something about that club that was worth a study by the scientists researching the Great Shift in subsequent years.
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