Motivation

Ever since he turned forty, Mark’s wife had been urging him to workout more and to get in shape. Mark did try a few times, but it always seemed to go the same way. He’d go the gym for a day or two, then give up for months at a time. His wife would pester him again, then he’d give it another go. It was just so hard to stay motivated.

Then The Great Shift gave his workout routine a shot in the arm. Suddenly, he was swapped into a new body -- about twenty years younger than this own. It was a lot more fit and had a lot more energy; it also happened to be female. Suddenly, however, it seemed he now had the motivation to workout much more frequently. He went to the gym for an hour every day, and he often found himself workout out at home, finding his new body could stretch in such wondrous ways.

His wife looked on in jealousy. He found herself in a new body as well. While it was about the same age as her previous one, it was also significantly heavier by at least 100 pounds. She now understood why Mark was so unmotivated earlier. It was just so hard to start.

Not Dreaming

When Ronald first woke up on that March morning, he thought he was still dreaming. It was, after all, the most likely explanation. He was in a fancy hotel room he had never seen before, but the more obvious indication that he was dreaming was the fact that he now had the body of a woman.

It all felt so real -- probably more real than any dream he could recall. Maybe all dreams felt like this, and they didn’t feel like a dream until he woke up. Of course, that was his initial course of action, to try to wake up. Nothing seemed to work, so instead he grabbed a bottle from the room’s fridge and started drinking.

He honestly couldn’t remember feeling drunk in a dream before either, but it was happening this time. Speaking of which, shouldn’t something more be happening if this was a dream? Otherwise, it would seem to be a boring one. Then again, what if he wasn’t dreaming?

Win-Win

Evan approached the young woman in the bar, trying his best moves to get her into bed. She scoffed but made him an offer. If he could beat her in billiards, he could do whatever he wanted to her body. If she one, he had to leave and never see her again forever. Evan figured this was a pretty good bet, and began gloating as soon as he cleared the table.

Evan was smirking, but the woman’s smile seemed downright devilish. The next moment, Evan collapsed onto the pool table. He awoke feeling quite strange.

“Congratulations on winning the bet,” He heard a familiar voice say, “True to my word, you can now do whatever you want with my body.”

Evan soon realized the reason the voice was so familiar -- it was his! But how? Then Evan began to notice he had swapped bodies with the woman.

“Turn us back!” He shouted.

“No way. A deal’s a deal. Now that you are me, you can literally do anything you want with that body. A nice side effect is that I can do whatever I want to yours. As a bonus, I also get my prize as I make my exit and never have to see you again.”

2540

By the year 2540, technology had become mundane. There wasn’t anything you couldn’t do. For instance, Xavier would look in his mirror in each morning and completely transform his look -- and that really meant a complete transformation. While most people would use the technology to appear a little younger (but still mostly themselves), Xavier took it to an extreme. Today, he decided to be a brunette woman. He didn’t have to worry about makeup, the mirror did that for him. Even his entire body was transformed by the tech. He then got into his autodresser to have the machine select an outfit most flattering to his daily body before teleporting to work.

His co-workers were certainly used to seeing Xavier show up each day looking like a completely different person. In fact, no one was really sure what he actually looked like. The only way they could tell it was him was by his still manly voice. Sure, there was tech that could change that too, but Xavier kind of like the contrast on a day like this...

Men Were Men and Women Were Women

Jeb had been raised in a very conservative household, and even into his 40s he held onto the beliefs that “men were men and women were women.” He didn’t understand many around him who embraced what he considered to be sinful. Things got weird for him when The Great Shift hit, however.

Suddenly, he was now a woman. At first, he tried to embrace this. He figured since he was a woman, he should be as feminine as possible. He considered his new body a “looker” as well, so he thought it made sense to show off and whatnot. This didn’t bother him as much as he thought it would; in fact, he kind of liked it. But when things settled down and social lives kicked in, the idea of dating a fella still seemed weird to him. He knew he was a woman on the outside, but on the inside, he was still a guy. He finally began to consider his views, wondering if maybe some of his friends hadn’t been so crazy after all...