Scared and Confused

The news reports would begin flooding in the hours after the Shift. People were glued to their screens with the stories of violence and fighting, but in my own experience, most of us were just confused and scared.

The bus had been late, and there were a lot of us waiting. I was thinking about how none of us would get a seat and probably most of us wouldn’t even fit. It seemed like such a simple, innocent thought in hindsight.

The flash came at the same time as a breeze and I felt an odd cool air rustle the fabric on my legs. I looked down, my whole body seemed thin and unfamiliar. I inspected my now female body, touching it to make sure it was real -- unsure how this could be mine now. It seems the others waiting were all doing the same. We weren’t angry at each other; we weren’t fighting like the news reports later told us; we were all just scared and confused.