More Often

I always used to think high heels on women were hot, and I wondered why they didn’t wear them all the time. My perspective on this immediately changed after swapping bodies with one.

After an accident at work, I had become Moon -- an Asian woman with a somewhat frumpy fashion sense. I told myself I’d be ditching her ballet flats for a pair of heels the next day.

I regretted the choice almost instantly, but still not quick enough.

I thought the initial pain would be temporary, that’d I’d adjust to the feeling in no time. By lunch, I felt like my feet were just two gigantic blisters on the end of my legs.

And somehow I understood...no more high heels for me! Of course, just because I came to that realization, it did NOT give me my body back...

Fast

Eric had never had to work a day in his life before. He had grown up rich and inherited a company. Even when it felt like he was making decisions, they were corrected and modified by a hundred analysts. The money kept flowing, and life was good. That is until one day when he woke up inside the body a woman working a minimum wage job at a fast food place. He assumed it would at least be easy.

It wasn’t.

There were a lot of different things to learn; things could get chaotic; the oil from the fryers felt like it covered his entire body by the end of the day. There were people shouting at him over the smallest mistakes, and it just sucked.

All he could think about was how to get his old life back.

Gaslit

Weight, Don't Tell Me.

When the Great Shift happened and I found myself in this body, I told myself that I was going to take good care of it. Then I slipped into old habits of fast food, frozen pizza, and a general lack of exercise. And I soon found that my new body gained weight much more easily than my old one. Couple that with the fact that my new body was female instead of male, I felt pressured to lose the weight.

I started to look at the fresh produce in the grocery store, but the thought of cooking and preparing meals seemed daunting. I wondered if I could eat those Weight Watcher means -- though they ended up tasting gross.

I couldn’t help but think I may end up overweight no matter what body I wound up in...

Explain

Albert watched the City fade into suburbs as his commuter rail travelled north. His wife was certainly going to be surprised to see him like this. He had thought about texting her to prepare her for the shock, but what was he going to say?

“Sorry. Accident at work. Now inside the body of our 21 year old female intern.”

He still didn’t believe it himself, and he was living the experience! He shifted in the seat as the conductor checked his ticket; this usually meant there was only one more stop until his station. Then he’d drive home, and at that point, he’d have to explain this mess.

He wasn’t looking forward to it.

Survive

There were still some thoughts running through David’s head, even if he could only make grunts and had the desire to feast on brains like everyone else affected by this virus -- though his story was quite different.

It started fifty years ago during a fertility emergency when the government mandated many men to have their gender changed. For over a decade he was forced to give birth to babies that were handed out to others. As his own body began to age, many of his parts were replaced with artificial android ones to extend his child-bearing years.

Then the virus came. That’s what turned people into zombies like in the movies. David’s human parts were susceptible to it, but his android parts allowed him to continue having human thoughts despite his monstrous behavior. It meant that unlike other zombies, he could be patient and he could plan. Others would walk aimlessly to their doom, but David survived -- just like he always had.

I'm Not Supposed to Be a Woman (Part 6)

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Mall Madness (Part 2)

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When Justin saw the woman now in his original body arrive, he forced a smile. He knew it was going to be an awkward moment, but he had no idea quite so awkward. She started grilling him on the swap, but he didn’t have any answers. It just happened.

But he had questions of his own, too.

“Can I keep these?” He asked as he held up the bags, “It’s not like I have any other clothes to wear, and they fit your body.”

He didn’t expect her to storm off in anger at the question. However, that left his options wide open. Without her around, he could pretty much do anything he wanted.

Big Red Button

It was probably not all that smart for Harriet to press the big red button labeled “Body Swap,” but she was never the brightest bulb in the closet.

Once she pressed it, the helmets came down and the electrical energy began to swirl. Her eyes rolled back in her head. She didn’t even see Rich standing behind her and the same thing happening to him.

It took only seconds before they realized they were now in each other’s bodies. Harriet was absolutely horrified that she had become Rich, but Rich immediately saw an upside the whole situation.

Even Better

Tammy had found Adam to be a more than a little annoying. She had only agree to tutor him for one simple reason -- he paid her, and it was a very generous amount. She certainly never expected to swap bodies with the guy in the middle of one of their study sessions.

“Oh, Dude!” Adam exclaimed as he looked down at Tammy’s body, “This is awesome!”

Tammy had been looking in the mirror, horrified that she was now inside Adam’s body, but the statement caused her to snap her head back to look at him. “You’d better not do anything weird while in my body,” She said.

“Oh, no! Nothing like that! I’ll be respectful and, like, a perfect gentleman. I won’t even do anything when in the shower or using the bathroom or nothing! But this situation is even better than all that -- because now I don’t need to study; you can just take the tests for me!”

The Faintest Idea (Part 2)

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Despite the woman in front of him looking like Lakshmi, sounding like Lakshmi, and certainly was Lakshmi up until a few seconds ago, she still insisted otherwise. Krish decided calling the hospital was still the best course of action.

Of course, Jeff -- the person who Lakshmi’s body was now claiming to be -- didn’t think the hospital was a bad idea either, perhaps they could explain the body swap.

The hospital couldn’t find anything physically wrong with Jeff/Lakshmi. There was some concern about her mental state, but told Krish not to push it.

When they returned home, Jeff changed into Krish’s clothes, not Lakshmi’s, and she kept trying to convince Krish that she really was a guy from thousands of miles away named Jeff. He did his best not to argue, per the doctor’s advice, but it was quite difficult to hold his tongue.

Space Quest: The Body Swapping Frontier

Noodles (Part 3)

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As the days went on and more stores opened, I began to fill up the cabinets in her kitchen -- or, well, I guess I thought of it as my kitchen now. I started with the lower shelves, and it didn’t take long before I had to keep moving up.

But even the next shelf up to reach was difficult for my new body. I felt so short as I had to find a step stool just to reach it, and even then it was a challenge.

I tried not to dwell on it. Things were finally starting to feel normal again and realizing that I was much shorter now wasn’t on the list of things I felt like I needed to worry about. There was proving my identity, for one. Programs were being put in place that helped people reclaim everything that was theirs and returning to my own home might be nice.

The City That Never Sleeps

The streets of New York had gotten eerily quiet in the hours since the Great Shift, which was particularly shocking considering how loud and chaotic things had been in the immediate aftermath.

I probably screamed at first too in a pitch that would have been impossibly high coming from my former mouth. But I had a new mouth now, a new body, and a new gender. The ID in the bag I carried was for an address in Queens, though my immediate surroundings seemed to be more of a Bronx vibe.

Amongst the chaos, I began to walk. The air was sticky; I found myself wishing this body hadn’t picked skinny jeans to wear this morning. I abandoned her heels after a few blocks, preferring to walk barefoot on the disgusting City streets while trying not to think about it. And that’s how the hours passed; how things settled down while others found there way inside while I continued to walk; how the City that Never Sleeps became silent.

Pirates!

They opened the chest and immediately the two pirate’s eyes began to glow purple and then transform from male to female in a blink of an eye. The rest of the crew tried to run, but the curse had already escaped from the chest and was now affecting them one-by-one.

There were probably curses out there that were much, much worse than being transformed into women. After all, once their gender changed, the pirates pretty much all just continued on like before -- if anything, their new bodies gave them an edge, as any ship they encountered was certainly caught off guard to be plundered by a bunch of lasses.

She Swapped Bodies with a College Student

Is it Stealing?

“Is it really stealing?” Lucas asked while sticking his head out the van’s window. “Think about it: We’re stuck in these bodies in the middle of nowhere, the only thing around is this van, the keys are in the ignition...the van has to belong to these bodies, right?”

Gwen was less sure. She hated this whole situation. She hated that she was in the wrong body, a guy’s body. She hated that Lucas was in the wrong body, a woman’s body. Technically, she didn’t even know if the person in that body was really Lucas. They just nodded when Gwen had asked. She hated the idea of just taking this van to get back to civilization. But then again, did she have a better idea to figure out what the heck was going on? No. Not in the slightest.

Oddity

Trying to think about the past few days was a lot for Malcolm to consider. It started with his body being stolen by a cab driver with a magic taxi -- which sounds insane enough -- but then he learned he’d have to steal someone else’s body in the exact same way.

And that’s how he ended up in her body. He didn’t know her name. She didn’t have a purse or any identification. She paid in cash with the typical $50 tip as he stole her body.

But now that he was her? He was at a loss! She had asked to come here, but why? Why had she paid with cash with seemingly nothing else on her? Not even a phone, which was quite the oddity these days...

Apart-Together

We went back to my apartment, and he leaned against the wall with a confident, masculine swagger. It was weird seeing my body move like that, but that was just the situation we were dealing with.

“So this is where I’m going to be staying for a while?” He asked.

I hadn’t really thought about it. He had my body; he’d be wearing my clothes; he’d need my feminine necessities. It all made sense, but the idea of leaving the random guy I swapped bodies with at the gym alone in my apartment still made me uncomfortable.

“Maybe I could pack a day bag from some things at your place, and we could stay here together?” I suggested.

“Whatever floats your boat,” He replied in an almost too casual tone.

It was already so weird; I had a feeling it was going to get weirder.

Quiet

When Jonah wished he could become a woman, this wasn’t exactly what he had in mind. He thought he’d become a wild, sexy woman -- not a quiet and reserved librarian. He often tried to be a bit more extroverted, but was it didn’t last long before he was forced to retreat due to the overwhelmingly shy nature of this body.

He realized he didn’t mind it. He was still a woman at the end of the day, and that was the most important piece of all this. Having a steady job with a lot of peaceful moments was also a pretty good thing. He could slip away for a bit, and no one would even notice he was gone.

He was still not entirely sure how it had happened. This whole identity just seemed to appear out of nowhere after he became her. But he still loved every minute.

Double Date

My girlfriend and I had agreed to go on a double date with John and Chloe...if you could still call it that.

You see, John and Chloe had recently undergone a process called “The Merge” to affirm their commitment to each other. The whole thing seemed a little weird to me, as they were now one single person with Chloe being the left side and John beng the right. They spoke as a single entity now, with seemingly singular interests. They complained about buying a bra for a chest that was completely flat on one side. They talked about wearing a heel on one side to even the height of their legs. I didn’t want to ask about intimacy or using the restroom; I didn’t even want to think about it.

After lunch, I felt a little sick to my stomach thinking about John and Chloe. But then my girlfriend turned to me and started to ask about when WE were going to merge.

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