Could Be Pretty (Part 1)

Even though she was a bit of a nerd, Josh always though Sabrina was pretty -- or at least she could be conventionally pretty if she was always wearing such dumpy clothes. It was like she was hiding herself for whatever reason.

He tried to coax her into wearing something besides baggy jeans and hoodies, but she wasn’t having it. Out of frustration she shouted, “Maybe YOU should wear something more conventionally beautiful!”

He spat just as quickly, “If I had a body as nice as yours, maybe I would!”

And that’s how they came to the agreement to swap bodies for a month -- with an option for an extension. And why Josh was now the one sitting in Sabrina’s body, wondering just exactly what he was going to choose to wear...

Retro Junk

The retro video game consoles at the yard sale for practically nothing seemed like a really good deal. The only catch was that they were all wired togther in a really strange way, so I had to buy them all and bring them home to untangle them.

My girlfriend shouted as me for buying junk, and she wasn’t listening as I told her that I could sell even one of these online for way more than I bought it for. Then the strangest thing happened; the consoles all started humming and glowing. Then that glowing engulfed both my girlfriend and I, and it caused us to swap bodies.

In our new forms, we accidentally knocked a few of the consoles off the table, shattering their cases. My girlfriend shouted at me to fix it and then went to our room to go cry. But as far as fixing it? I had no clue how they had been connected before falling to the floor; I certainly had no idea how decades old video game technology could be turned into a body swapper. I looked things over, but as far as I could figure, we were going to be stuck like this.

Fix This

Jun didn’t think it was possible that the gorgeous blonde woman heading in his direction was doing so to speak with him, yet she approached without skipping a beat. She pulled out a remote and asked, “Can you fix this?”

“What is it?” Jun asked.

“Right. You don’t remember.” She paused. “You invented it. And it turned me into a woman. I used to be your best friend, Harold.”

“I, uh, don’t know a Harold.”

“Because the remote made you forget me, just like it made you forget the remote. It also made me blonde, a woman, and -- most importantly -- kinda dumb. So, like, I can’t fix it on my own anymore, and I need your help.”

Jun shrugged. He wasn’t sure if this woman was trying to play some sort of prank on him, but he was interested in seeing where this would go...

Game On

It was my third date with Michelle. We had seen two movies together, which hadn’t really given me a good chance to talk to her, so I thought we should probably do something different. I still couldn’t tell you what I was thinking when I chose the arcade. I had always remembered liking arcades, but she instantly rolled her eyes.

About fifteen minutes in, I was having fun, but I could tell she was bored. A noticed a strange blue light coming from one of the machines, but it disappeared at almost the exact moment I saw it. In that moment, I realized how terrible the arcade was and turned to ask Michelle if she wanted to go shopping at the mall instead.

But she wasn’t there. Instead, she had picked up a gun from one of those shooting games and actually seemed to be enjoying herself. I found just getting more and more bored, and trying to focus on her instead. I realized I wasn’t even interested in her body anymore -- but her outfit. I knew it would look absolutely stupid on my male frame, but I really wanted to wear it. She paused from playing her game for a moment, gave me a smile as if she knew, and said, “We can go to the bathroom and switch if you want. I’m not comfortable wearing this either. I have no idea why I even own an outfit like this, let alone chose to wear it tonight.”

Did the Math

Alvin did the math. There was no way he was going to be able to afford retirement at this rate. He needed more time to earn more, and a new technology seemed to offer a solution -- he could simply buy a younger body to swap into. A thirty year old body would be expensive, but it would buy him decades of more time in the workforce -- enough to recoup the loss from purchasing the new body and save for retirement after that.

Of course, he tried to keep the cost of his new body as low as possible. The budget wouldn’t allow for specific selections beyond age. The head and face were extra, so he opted to keep his own.

In hindsight, he probably should’ve spent a little more for additional specifics as he was quite unhappy with the results of his purchase with the plump, feminine body he now possessed below the neck. He couldn’t even afford to try again, at least not yet. He’d be paying off this body for about ten years, then he could give it another go.

Dimensional

“I thought you called me that you had some sort of explanation as to why we swapped bodies,” Ying said with a scared stutter, “Now you’re telling me this is my body!?”

Gerald sighed, “I did the math. Like I said, we didn’t swap bodies all; we got sucked into a different dimension where these bodies have always been our bodies. I am the Gerald of this universe with the Gerald body. It just so happens that body in this universe looks exactly like you. And visa versa. It explains why your clothes still fit. It explains how almost everyone is dressed.”

“But it feels gross. I still want my body, not some pale nerdy white guy body that has my name. I want to be me again.”

“Like I said, you technically are you...just a very different version of you. But the good news is that this changes how I approach the problem, and hopefully it means I’m one step closer to a solution.”

Big Wish

“Maybe it’s like that movie ‘Big.’” Stephanie suggested, “You know, that kid made a wish and became Tom Hanks? Then he just needed to find the Zoltar machine to reverse the wish.”

“Is there one of those machines even on this Boardwalk?” Tom asked, “I didn’t see one. I certainly didn’t make a wish at one. And I would’ve never wished to be a woman.”

Stephanie was oddly silent.

Tom asked, “What did you do?”

“I’m sorry,” Stephanie confessed, “I just don’t have any female friends. I wished I could have at least one. And you were always my best friend, but I didn’t know it would pick you -- and that’s the honest truth. I’m sorry. But it was my wish, so I’m going to fix this, okay?”

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Avoid It

The first thing Lewis did after the Great Shift was cut his hair short. He told himself there had to be something he could do about being in the body of a woman, and -- quite honestly -- the short hair gave him some confidence back. It also got him thinking.

His new female body was skinny, but it was also quite rectangular. The chest was below average, which he was very thankful for. Maybe he could just bulk it up a little bit by working out. Sure, he’d technically still be a woman, but he didn’t have to act like one or look like one. At least, he could try his best to avoid it.

Fell

Reggie fell to the ground with a thud due to the unfamiliarity of heels suddenly on his feet and the restrictive dress. It probably would’ve been more of a scene and people probably would’ve rushed to his aid if not for the fact that just about everyone else was dealing with being in the wrong body just like he was.

And what a body he was in! It was clearly a runway model in one of the fashion shows inside the tents. Of course, his job just moments ago had been emptying the trash cans outside, but he wasn’t sure anyone needed to know that. Maybe he could even play it like he was supposed to be in this body -- though he’d have to learn how to walk in a tight dress and heels pretty quickly if he was going to pull off that ruse...

Body Swap Chronicles (Season 2)

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Lunch Break

I used to hate work. It was boring drudgery every single day to earn just enough money to survive. Then the Great Shift happened, swapping everyone’s bodies, and somehow turning work into the best eight hours of the day.

The main reason? Well, I had swapped bodies with my girlfriend Natalie, and it was a break from the way she insisted I act now that I had her body. I still had to dress the she picked out in the morning, but she couldn’t stand over my shoulder all day while we were apart.

I could slouch. I could have a cup of coffee. Most importantly, I could eat what I wanted to eat. I told her I was buying salads at CHOPT, but in reality I was going to places like McDonalds. If she knew, she would freak out, but I absolutely cherished those moments with those burgers when I could still feel like myself.

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Checkmate

Dimitri was ranked as one of the best chess players in the world. While on vacation, a bubbly young woman sitting at a chess table outside asked if she wouldn’t mind playing a match against her. He laughed, thinking she had no idea who he was or his skills in the game. He even offered her anything she wanted if she was victorious.

He didn’t expect her to win; he certainly didn’t expect her to demand his body; and he certainly didn’t expect her to have the means to actually take his body from him. He begged for another game. He told himself that she just must have gotten lucky. She agreed, but she also upped the stakes.

Dimitri knew he’d have to concentrate this time, and he told himself he should be able to win his body back. Or at least he hoped so. This would be his one and only shot of it, because the thing he had wagered was 90% of his intellect. If he lost here, he simply wouldn’t be smart enough for another shot at it.

Dynamite

When the Great Shift happened, everyone at the karaoke lounge started out by treating it as a temporary blip and not a long term realignment. But as minutes turned to hours, the tension grew.

Soo Mi had been working as the hostess at the time, checking people into various rooms. Now she had to watch as the man swapped into her body got drunk. She rarely ever had alcohol, so it was hitting him hard. She saw her own face turn red with flush. She thought about telling him to stop or instructing the staff to cut him off, but she was worried how he might go from happy to belligerent while in her body.

Of course, she’d soon learn that someone being too happy while in the body of an unfamiliar gender had its own of drawbacks that she would have to watch her body engage in...

Old Bones

Svetlana had been sore ever since her performance yesterday, which was never great for her since she worked as a contortionist at the circus. Still, she thought she’d be better after a day of rest; however, when she woke up the next morning, her back was even more sore than the night before.

As she sat backstage, holding her sore back, a pudgy middle aged woman entered. She spoke in a soft voice, “I believe I have something that might belong to you,” and then proceeded to lift herself into a pose Svetlana couldn’t imagine doing right now.

The older woman continued, “I was at the show yesterday. I remembered being jealous, and as I was leaving I saw a strange blue light out of the corner of my eye. I felt more spry, but I couldn’t place why until I found myself moving in impossible ways this morning. I believe I have your contortionist ability.”

Svetlana put her hand on her side. Something inside her knew it was true. It explained the pains; she had the aching bones of a middle age woman now for some reason.

Paper Constellations

Out of all the music videos I've done, this is still probably one of my favorites. I re-uploaded to Tiktok because the album is out NOW!

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Subway Take

The subway rumbled along the tracks, and I suddenly lost my footing an had to grab onto one of the nearby poles. Of course, this was odd since I had been sitting down at the time. Now, it seemed, I was suddenly standing. And, it also seemed, that my body was no longer my own.

Instead, I now inhabited the body of a Hispanic woman. I felt so self-conscious about it, and I thought everyone was looking at me.

Of course, I soon leaned it was all in my head, and everyone was more concerned about their own body swap than a man inside the body of a woman about to fall on his own behind.

Reading and Research

It was a question I had been asking myself ever since I swapped bodies with Caroline -- why was she even in college? She didn’t seem to care much about reading or researching how or why we could’ve swapped bodies, leaving all the work to me. She did, however, seem greatly concerned with how I was choosing to dress her body while we were swapped. I still couldn’t believe that was more worried about that than finding a solution.

Several months later, I was still looking for answers; she was failing all my classes in my male body. However, at this point I was beginning to think I would be spending the rest of my life s Caroline, and I was starting to think I would have to get used to it. At least she no longer picked out the clothes I would wear each day, and I could go to the library in something comfortable....

Pretend

Martin had just dropped his kid off at daycare and was alone with his thoughts for the day. He felt like a fraud. This wasn’t his life; this wasn’t his body; that wasn’t even his kid that he just dropped off. Because of the Great Shift, he had swapped into the body of a young mother, and he just didn’t have the heart to tell the kid the truth. And so he just picked up her life; he pretended to be unswapped.

He had his doubts about the woman’s husband, who was also claiming to be unswapped -- and even the kid sometimes. He thought they were both just pretending, just like him. But it’s not like he was going to be forthcoming with the truth of who he was anytime soon, so why should they? Until that point, he guessed they’d all just continue to pretend to be the family they appeared to be....

Sit. Stay. Swap.

Big

Had Mia’s butt always been this big? It couldn’t have gotten bigger since they swapped bodies, right? That would be impossible -- then again, a day ago, Grant probably would’ve said swapping bodies was impossible. He decided to brush it off as he got out of bed, telling himself that it was just his new perspective which made it appear bigger than he recalled.

Going through Mia’s wardrobe to get dressed for the day ended up being another reminder of just how big Mia’s back side was. Squeezing all of this into a pair of tight jeans felt like a bad idea, but what were his choices? A skirt? Stretchy yoga pants?

His final decision was just to meet up with Mia wearing the same sweatpants he had slept in. Maybe they could figure out a way to reverse this swap sooner rather than later...

Doing Okay (Part 2)

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I had agreed to meet the woman I swapped with at the bus stop outside the deli. There was a certain weirdness to it, because I was literally living in her apartment so she knew where I lived.

Still, I read online that there was a safety concern about meeting your former body in a public space, particularly for those now in the bodies of women. I supposed it made sense. I didn’t know anything about this woman; technically, I didn’t know if she was a one-to-one swap. The person in my old body could just be pretending, and I wouldn’t know. I suppose that was part of the whole safety aspect.

I felt good about being five minutes early. I was still feeling like I had this all figured out, and that I was completely on top of things.

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Mall Madness (Part 4)

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So if Justin was now free to do whatever he wanted inside this body, why did just continue shopping? He didn’t know, but he was certainly enjoying himself! He knew he hadn’t been into this kind of thing in his own body, but now it was a pure, simple joy.

He couldn’t believe the thrill he was getting simply by picking out a pair of shoes -- especially ones that would’ve never fit his personal aesthetic before. He began to wonder if her body was starting to have an effect on his brain -- and he questioned if he even cared.

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Coaster

Jason’s legs were shaking as he stepped off the ride. Everything about this was wrong; this body wasn’t his. The ride was less than three minutes long, yet it was enough time for clouds to form, for lightning to fill the sky, and for a bolt to strike the ride.

It didn’t make any sense, but that electrical jolt seemed to be enough to cause everyone riding the coaster to switch bodies with one another. Jason could feel something was off when it happened, but the full extent of what had happened wasn’t obvious until the ride stopped. His brain had time to catch up with what happened to his body. People were screaming now, probably louder than they were during the ride. Jason was too afraid to even scream; he had become a woman.

Keep a Secret

Trevor had just spent twenty minutes explaining to Miko that he hadn’t be able to figure out a way to reverse the body swap. She left in tears, and I expected that to be the end of it. But Trevor pulled me aside.

“Do you think she bought it?” He asked me.

“What?” I answered his question with a question.

“Dude. My machine is totally fixed. I can swap back with her any time I want. i just couldn’t give this up.” Trevor then proceeded to lift his leg up above his head and explained, “This doesn’t even hurt. Look, I know you’ve had a crush on her forever, and she’d never date you. But me? In her body? Let’s just say I’m open to it if you can keep this secret between us, okay?”

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Melissa

It wasn’t just that I had become a woman -- that was strange, but I could certainly deal with that fact. The problem was that I was losing my mind. I remember that I used to be a guy, but one of the first things I forgot was my name. It was so unsettling, but it just seemed to fall out of my head without any lingering knowledge of what it might have been.

Then it was things about being a guy. What was it like to not have this weight on my chest? What was it like to use the bathroom standing up? Why couldn’t I remember any of these things!?

And then others things started to slowly replace them. Unhooking a bra stopped being a struggle; I just knew how to do it, for instance. The name Melissa formed in my head. I didn’t want to be Melissa, but I guess I was...

The Cave

Alvin bought the woman a second drink. There was just something different about her. She talked about sports and video games; she seemed like one of the guys. He felt like she could be his soul mate until that moment she turned to him with a very masculine stance after swigging down half the glass of beer.

“I got a confession,” The woman said, “I’m not actually a chick. I mean, I am right now, but I wasn’t originally. I’m not trans, and this is all 100% real and natural.”

Alvin responded only by his jaw dropping.

The woman continued, “There’s this cave. You go in with someone, and you swap bodies. I can’t explain it. This woman is back in her room crying her eyes out with my body. But I’ve seen some benefits to being her -- heck, YOU bought me TWO free drinks! But I’m thinking of a deeper plan. Drinks are fine, but there are literal millionaires on this beach, if you follow me...”

Missed Connections

Island Life

The Great Shift occurred when Rich was on vacation, and everyone was surprisingly chill about it. People just explained to each other who they really were, and everyone just got on with their lives. Rich had swapped with a local woman, but his vacation mostly continued as normal -- despite having to borrow some clothes to fit his newly feminine form.

Of course, when he returned to the mainland, he soon discovered that reactions to the Great Shift weren’t quite as relaxed as they were on the island. People were (still) in a panic, and it often seemed like society was on the verge of collapse now. He wished they could take some lessons from the island atmosphere that just sort of went with the flow of all the changes.

Self-Conscious

It didn’t take Glen long to learn many of his expectations about swapping bodies with a woman were wrong. There was nothing particularly gratifying about the experience.

He thought he’d be wowed by amazing curves; instead it just felt different and weird. In fact, he felt like his new butt was somehow both too big and too flat, and he took great lengths to hid it by tying a sweater around his waist. The pants didn’t even seem to fit right. He thought the fact that they were tight might make him feel good about the shape of his body, but it only served to make him feel worse.

There was nothing about his new form that didn’t make him feel self-conscious.

Dark Thoughts

George sat on the beach where it happened, where his body had been found washed ashore. The police were unwilling to declare it an accident as they couldn’t rule out intentional suicide. George hated how he understood this feeling. He had struggled with low self-esteem and depression throughout his life. A lot of that seemed to transfer to him in the new female body he ended up in after the Great Shift, but he wondered if all those thoughts and insecurities lingered in his own body as well. He hadn’t been happy before, but he wasn’t happy like this either.

He thought about how his body had been found the day before the government announced a new technology that would allow people to swap back to their original selves. That was obviously not in the cards for George anymore, thought its not like he thought that would make him feel any better.

He looked out into the ocean. He could throw himself into the abyss as well, but instead he turned aroun and walked back up the beach. He was down, but he could still fight the dark thoughts.

Shoulder

I blinked several times as I pushed down the shoulder of the leather jacket to rub the smooth skin on shoulder. I think I may have injured it in the fall, but it was the least of my concerns; I was just as concerned about the slender shoulders I now possessed and the leather clothes I now seemed to be wearing.

It was all new to me -- these clothes, this body. I’d come to learn this happened because of a body swapping event that the media dubbed “The Great Shift,” but at the time I just remember being confused and disoriented. Suddenly being in new body was what caused my fall and subsequent shoulder injury.

My mind was dealing with the fact that I was now a woman on top of all that. And yet things were strangely calm and quiet.

I'm Not Supposed to Be a Woman (Part 5)

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Closer

Sharon had asked her boyfriend about getting closer -- maybe by moving in together or something like that -- but John hesitated. Was he ready for that sort of thing? He didn’t even have time to come up with something to say rejecting the idea before the oddest thing happened -- Sharon and John started to merge into one being.

“What are you doing?” John shouted.

“I didn’t want to be close like this!” Sharon yelled back. “What’s happened to us!? I can feel everything.” Then she paused before adding, “You were going to say no?”

John didn’t have time to respond again. The merge had completed. They were feeling both sets of thoughts of Sharon and John and all the contradictions that entailed. Their merged body was an average of male and female, of the two beings now one. And the argument about being closer continued in their head, even as there was no possible way to be even closer.

I'm Not Supposed to Be a Woman (Part 4)

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True Form

We let the old man join our adventuring party because he claimed to be a wizard, though he often felt like more of a liability than an asset. His magic often misfired, he got tired quicker than the rest of us, and it just didn’t feel like he pulled his weight on this quest. I think most of us were ready to leave him behind next time we got into a town.

Then one day when we had just gotten up from a long rest, we noticed the old man wasn’t in camp. We searched around thinking he must have wandered off. Then we encountered her. We thought about recruiting her to join as well, but then we noticed she was holding the wizard’s staff.

At first we thought she killed him; we weren’t exactly ready for a fight. But then she tried to explain she WAS the wizard, that she was becoming closer to her true form. We had never heard anything like it before, but we also all agreed that the wizard in this form couldn’t be worse than the wizard in the old man form.

New Jersey (Part 1)

Darnell was trying to figure out what the hell was going on here. His skin was pale; he was carrying a purse; he seemed to wearing sweatpants; he obviously had a woman’s body. But the worst part of all this was that he was clearly now in New Jersey.

At least this seemed to be the platform to take the train into the City. He could get on, find his original body, and figure this whole mess out.

It didn’t take long for him to discover he wasn’t the only one in the wrong body. He heard people talking. He tried to get as much information as he could, but it seemed everyone was just as confused as he was. However, he figured one advantage his current body had was that this stuck up suburbanites were more willing to answer questions from what looked like a petite white woman instead of his original tall, male, Black body.