Re-Invent

It is often said that college is a time to re-invent oneself. Whether you were cool or a nerd or the class clown in high school, no one in college would be aware of any of it. That was especially true in the years following the Great Shift when people had a particular interest in trying to forge a new life with whatever new body they might now have.

Sydney was particularly happy when he arrived at college, and people perceived him as the bookish woman he appeared to be. He never had to tell people he was once a jock or the star of the football team. He felt like he would finally be appreciated for his brain, and he was more than happy to play up the part. He acted shy with nervous waves; he wore skirts when he went out. No one even asked who he was before, and no one cared. And he loved that.

Self-Betrayal

It had been less than five minutes since Luke had become a woman due to his choices while driving the Magic Taxi; he was already regretting it. When his own body was stolen about a week prior, the decision to become a woman was not immediate. Becoming a man, of course, made much more sense. But it was his own attraction that likely betrayed him.

There was nothing exciting or alluring about the men that came into his cab. The same wasn't true of the women. Picking the most interesting was going to be the real challenge.

He saw her even before she hailed the cab as the blonde took short little steps on her chunky heels. Now that he was in her in her body, he understood those movement intimately. It wasn’t just the heels that contributed to the small steps, but also the short tight skirt.

There was no way he was able to keep up the gorgeous feminine mystique of her body as he moved it around like a clumsy, awkward man.

Bad Luck to See the Bride

Pete’s family always said it was bad luck to see the bride in her dress before the wedding, but he was never one for any sort of superstition. And so with minutes before the ceremony, he went to check in on his bride-to-be. A strange flash of light, and the worst luck of all befell Pete as he found himself in the body of his own bride-to-be.

To complicate the matter, whoever was now inside his body seemed to be a clear lunatic. He told himself that if this was a simple body swap, it might’ve been easier -- but it started to seem like everyone he encountered had swapped bodies with someone else.

He was blaming himself. All because he wanted to see the love of his life for a moment before their wedding! Of course, it really had nothing to do with that; it was all just merely coincidentally timed right in line with...The Great Shift!

Disturbia (Part 1)

It had to be the weirdest day at work that Patrick could recall. Technically, he was still just an entry level employee, but he had swapped bodies with one of the managers -- a middle aged blonde woman by the name of Cheryl. She had been nice enough to give him a sweatshirt to cover up, as he felt quite exposed by the sleeveless white dress she had chosen to wear that day.

The company researchers promise to have everyone back in the right body tomorrow, and the lawyers promised a big bonus if everyone could keep a secret. An so Patrick found himself on a commuter train back to the suburbs that night. Cheryl had given him a rundown of anything he might need to know.

Though she had two kids, they were both off to college already, and fortunately her husband was out of town on a business trip. Patrick told her about his crappy apartment in the City with the roommate he never talks to. He was hoping for a very uneventful evening and that the swap back would happen first thing in the morning.

We Are One

Face to Face

About a week after the Great Shift, they were making us all come back into the office. None of us really wanted to, but they tried to say explain it by telling us people working in grocery stores or at the docks didn’t the luxury of working at home at all. They tried to ease us in by easing the dress code. It wasn’t much comfort.

Based on the way she looked at me in the break room, I don’t think Marie liked seeing me dress her body in sneakers and gray sweats. Of course, she might just not like seeing me in her body at all, but what could I do about that?

The Great Shift had plopped me into her body and that was that. It was probably easier for both us back when we only had the rare interaction on a Zoom call, but running into each other face to face? Yeah, it was awkward.

Speeding

Officer Nelson could tell the woman he had just pulled over for speeding seemed nervous. He asked for her license and registration as she began to dig through the mess in her front seat. Ultimately, given the fact that she was about twenty and just so nerve-racked, he decided to tell her to forget it and give her a warning.

As he turned to walk away, she pleaded. “Please don’t go!” She said, “I don’t think you understand. I don’t know where my license or registration is because this isn’t my car. This isn’t even my body.I had no idea I was speeding, because I just suddenly found myself behind the wheel. I didn’t even notice yu when I pulled over; I was just pulling over, regardless. I don’t know how this happened. I’m a 43 year old man!”

Officer Nelson was now thinking this woman was simply crazy. That is, until he started to hear others start saying the exact same sort of thing.

That's Rich

The medallion had allowed Anthony to steal Mandy’s life. He thought it would be better than it turned out to be. She lived in a mansion in the hills; she came from a rich family.

He knew he should’ve been suspicious when she didn’t seem upset after the swap. It didn’t take him too long to realize that it seemed Mandy’s life was falling apart. It seems her parents weren’t as rich as they seemed with their assets caught up in poor investments, which was revealed upon their deaths a few months ago. The mansion was a mess inside and falling apart; Mandy didn’t have the finances to properly maintain such a large property.

Once the twelve hours were up, Mandy had no desire to switch back. Fortunately, Anthony still had the medallion. He could probably trick someone else into taking Mandy’s life, but who?

Need for Speed (Part 1)

Tyson sat at the side of the rink contemplating what had just happened. Whereas he had been watching the speedskating competition of the teleivision moments ago, he soon found himself on the ice moving at incredible speeds. He had no idea what he was doing, but somehow managed to fall without hurting himself.

Discovering he was in the body of one of the female speedskaters, he just as quickly discovered he was not alone. Everyone in the entire area was in the wrong body.

He wasn’t able to think much about his new body; it was in too much pain. At first, he thought it might have been from the fall, but it was too focused in his legs. No, this was the sort of pain an elite athlete felt from pushing their body to the absolute limits. And that body was now his.

Books

If there was going to be anything in this college library about how to reverse a body swap, this seemed to be the correct section. Of course, Daniel had never been in this part of the library before; he had never even considered such a section would even exist in this library.

Maybe he was able to find it because he was currently affected by magic after swapping bodies with Maggie. Or maybe he just lucked out.

But amongst all this spooky stuff, there had to be a book about magical body swapping though, right? He pulled one of the books out, and was sorely disappointed. It was an outdated text on 1700s biology. In fact, while most of the books were rare, old, and interesting -- the subject of magic just wasn’t among the topics...whatever happened to him and Maggie that caused this body swap, he was likely stuck like this!

Work-Life Balance (Part 1)

Kim and Evan lived a pretty good life. They were married and living in a suburban neighborhood with their 5-year-old daughter. Evan made enough for the family, but Kim had been trying to get back into the work force. It had been difficult with the gap on her resume, but Evan kept encouraging her.

It was likely an idle wish about getting back to work that caused the swap. Kim, now in Evan’s body, was happy to be going into an office and was sure she could do the job with ease. Evan didn’t exactly hate being in Kim’s body either. He was going to finally get some additional time to bond with his daughter before she started school after his hectic work scheduled for the past few months.

It was nerve-wracking to have swapped bodies, sure. But for a little while at least, it didn’t seem like it would be that bad.

Drawn Out

Jake had been drawing the webcomic for a few years now. Mei had been introduced as a side character. People online had fallen in love with her, and Jake quickly shifted the series focus to her character. Because he used a gender neutral pseudonym, people assumed the comic was autobiographical and that he was Mei. He knew everyone would be disappointed to learn the artist was actually just some dumb white guy. He often thought about revealing who he was, but he was so hesitant.

As he grappled with the decision, the changed began to start. They were subtle at first, like needing to shave less often or a slight change in his taste in clothing. When he finally felt confident to take a selfie and post a bio to his site, he was startled by his own reflection. He looked almost exactly like his character Mei. It was surreal. It had all happened so slowly. Yet here he now stood in the body of an Asian woman. At least there was no reason for him to hide anymore.

Extra Credit (Episode 2)

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Keep It Safe

Shayne held the orb in his hand. It granted him the power to manipulate physical reality in any way he saw fit, and understanding the extent of what this meant was still hard to wrap his head around.

And yet he hadn’t made any changes with the orb for several days now. Once he used it to transform himself into a woman, everything else didn’t seem to matter much. It was the one thing that had made him whole and content; what more could be possibly want?

But he also felt it was his responsibility to keep the orb safe now. If someone else got a hold of it, there was no telling what damage they could do. They might have more desires than he did; perhaps evil desires. The orb would stay with him; he would keep it safe.

Too Many

Evey now and again on Fictionmania, there used to be these really self-serving captions. I am certainly playing into that with this one -- mostly due to history -- but I do really appreciate those who subscribe on DeviantArt, and you should too! They really do help offset the cost of creating all these captions, maintaining this site, etc. I also gave a shout out to some friends who have been encouraging!

Elliot realized he was probably visiting too many caption sites. After actually subscribing to Alicia’s captions on DeviantArt, it was the final straw, he had actually transformed into a woman.

Of course, it seemed it was a rather plain and boring woman. Perhaps it wasn’t that he ws visiting too many caption sites -- maybe he wasn’t visiting enough! If visiting this many had merely transformed him, it only seemed logical that visiting more would transform him even more, right?

He didn’t even consider just simply finding a dress or putting on makeup, he just started hitting other caption sites hard, starting with Alicia’s YouTube and then moving onto things from Rook Realms and Twisted TG Captions...

Hate to Burst Your dotcom Bubble

Gilbert always knew Eunice was a brilliant coder -- probably one of smartest at the company where they both worked -- but this was next level! Creating software that swapping his brain into her body over an at-home dial-up connection? It was next level!

He wasn’t even angry about it, he simply saw it as a challenge to flex his own programming ability. After all, she was a good developer, but he could think of at least one better: HIMSELF!

Hacking through several key files, he almost laughed at how easy some of her security systems were to crack. But when he thought he had found a breakthrough into her code, he found a spreadsheet instead. It was a list of layoffs scheduled at the company. Eunice’s name was among them. He realized she had swapped with him out of self-preservation, and she had managed to outsmart him, too. What he thought was a path for getting his body back was actually her plan to show him this file. He knew she didn’t deserve to be laid-off, but to go to this extreme? There had to be a reason!

An Adventure

“I’m not sure if I’m still upset about swapping bodies with you, or if its simply the biological nature of drow to be pissed off all the time,” Ibrim said, “But we need to find that wizard to have him undo this body swap spell.”

Araj agreed, “The stench of your human body bothers my nostrils -- even as I am breathing with human nostrils. And to be in a male body is so degrading. I never should’ve travelled to the surface, but I had no other choice in order to restore my family’s house.”

“Whatever. I get it. We all have our own reasons for adventuring. But they won’t likely care for you too much in the Underdark if you return there still inside my body. And I have no interest running around in your body or clothes any longer than I have to myself. So let’s just get a move on, okay!?”

The Kiss

It had been a fun enough week, but Glen was ready to swap back to his own body. He felt like he probably would appreciate some of the difficulty that Sarah had to go through on a daily basis better now, but he might still have some lingering jealousy about some of the pieces of womanhood.

They’d switch back in the same way they swapped in the first place...with a kiss! They stood in the exact right spot. Glen closed his eyes and could feel Sarah’s breath close to his face. Then he puckered up.

His eyes opened when he heard footsteps running away in the distance. It seems Sarah wasn’t quite ready to swap back into her own body yet. It was okay. He was sure she’d come around in due time. I mean, she had to, right?

Misdownload (Part 5)

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2002 (Part 1)

“Wait, are you guys...you?” Orion asked the two women standing in front of him.

“I’m Adlai,” Adlai replied looking down at the pink jacket he now wore.

“And I’m Xavier,” Xavier said while tugging on a green braid, “These aren’t the bodies we were supposed to teleported back into, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the year we selected either.”

“Ugh, cheaping out on time travel vacations is always a bad idea. What year is it?” Orion asked.

“You aren’t going to like it. But there’s a paper over there that says 2002.”

“2002? But that’s long before Chrono-cells were invented. If you travel back that far...”

Adlai interjected, “...Then you’re stuck in the past.”

“And we’re stuck as women, too!”

Guilt Trip

“Did you follow me down here?” Miguel looked up at the figure towering over him.

“You seemed upset,” Patti replied, “I just wanted to see if you were alright.”

“I come down here to think. This whole Great Shift thing has been a lot for everyone to deal with. Some people have to deal with being old or losing loved ones. The only thing I have to deal with is being a woman. I shouldn’t even give it a second thought, and yet...”

“It’s okay to be upset about changing gendes.”

“But that’s the thing! I’m not! I’m not upset at all! I actually love being in this body! That’s the problem! While everyone else is panicking or upset, here I am...happy!? It’s a guilt trip, and it’s terrible!”

Unicorn Rainbow Latte

It was called the Unicorn Rainbow Latte, and I ordered it with soy milk. My brother would laugh when he saw he drinking it and say things like, “Soy turns you gay.” I ignored him; he was always a jerk anyway.

But after a week, I did certainly notice the effects the drink had on me. I did now, in fact, enjoy watching cute boys buy coffee as I sat at the shop sipping on my Unicorn Rainbow Latte, though I don’t think it could technically be defined as “gay” anymore, as my body had been completely transformed.

I was no longer a 21-year-old guy fresh out of college, I had a become the most adorable 21-year-old woman you’d ever seen! I liked pink and being cute and accessorizing and everything! I let my inner unicorn rainbow shine! I was everything I dreamed I could be!

Paradise Lost (Part 1)

Not many people swapped into a body thousands of miles away from their own as a result of the Great Shift, and Chase had to imagine that even fewer found themselves in the body of someone living in a tropical paradise -- and even among those, to find themselves in the body of a beautiful woman lounging on the beach in a bikini? Well, Chase actually felt pretty good about this whole “Great Shift” thing.

It just felt laid back and different here. Far from his stressful job and cramped apartment in the city. Everyone even seemed chill about swapping bodies and helped each other out -- which was certainly helpful considering he swapped into a body whose identity he didn’t know and not wearing very much.

This was paradise.