Changes (Part 2)

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Jim arrived at the beach feeling exhausted from the run. He had been in pretty good shape, so he could only assume that along with his race and gender, his athleticism had swapped with someone as well. Another issue soon arose. If his wife had experienced the swaps like everyone else, how would he even be able to recognize her?

Fortunately, he didn’t have to. After walking around aimlessly for a bit, he heard his name being shouted. He turned to see a man laying there wearing his wife’s bikini (and still filling the top out nicely with the bottoms now being filled out in a manly way). Much like everyone else besides Jim, she was thinking this was all perfectly normal. As Jim took a seat next to his wife, he tried to think of a way to convince her of everything that wouldn’tmake him seem crazy.

Nerdy Stuff

Adam rushed back into the lab as fast as he could. He looked straight into the eyes of his own body and asked, “Please tell me you didn’t touch anything.”

“Naw,” His own body replied, “And why do you have my face?”

“If you haven’t figured it out yet, you have mine as well,” He explained to the woman he had swapped bodies with, “The experiment should have been confined to this lab, but seeing as you and I swapped bodies, well, clearly it was not.”

“Well, I don’t want to be in some nerd’s body, and I don’t want some nerd in my body neither. Can you fix it?”

“I think so.” Adam went to the computer to look at the logs. Typing with the fake nails that were on his fingers proved to be an unexpected challenge for him. In an instant, an incorrect key was pressed, resulting in a massive data loss. What should have been fixed in a few minutes would now likely take days. And he was going to be stuck in this woman’s body in the meantime. He wasn’t happy about that, and he was absolutely certain she wouldn’t be either.

Tea Party

I wish my mom never had another kid. I was fifteen when my sister Maddie was born; don’t most parents stop once their kids are that old? I have nothing against siblings either! It’s just that Maddie is pure evil. I don’t mean that in a mean way either! I actually love my little sister a lot, but she has literal magic powers that I can only describe as evil. We first noticed them when she was around four years old. Anything she said or wanted could become reality. The only saving grace seemed to be the power didn’t work when she was having a temper tantrum.

That being said, even coming from a good place could quickly become a nightmare. I was off at college when she was six, but she wanted me to attend a tea party. And then she wanted me to wear a pretty pink dress. And then she wanted me to be a princess for a far off land. Sure enough, that’s exactly who I became.

I played along (it was usually easier to play along). At the end I asked, “Can I go back to being your brother now?”

Maddie thought about it for a long time, and finally said, “No.”

And now I’ve been attending her daily tea parties in between the task of running a small, distant country as a princess.

Working (Part 1)

Bruno had started working at the factory in his early 20s. He worked hard, but in an unfortunate accident, his hand got crushed by a machine. The company, however, had an interesting benefit and offered to replace Bruno’s hand with a robotic part. It was weird having a robotic hand, but he found that he could actually do some things better than before (and it had no danger of being crushed). As he aged and his health faded, the company offered to replace more parts, often times these were robotic parts but sometimes they were bilogical transplants from other humans. The company didn’t allow Bruno to be picky. Everything just kept getting replaced, even as he aged. After 150 years working there, Bruno realized the human parts were more female than male, and he was easily more machine than man. He often dreamed of retiring, but the replacement parts weren’t free. He could never afford to stop working. He just had to keep going like this forever.

Dirty Laundry (Part 3)

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Meanwhile, Mike’s dad was having a great time inside the body of Mike’s girlfriend, May. In fact, he couldn’t remember the last time he felt so young and alive. Of course, this was likely due to the fact that he actually was several decades younger now. The fact that he was a woman now barely phased him. For the most part, he didn’t even think about it (except when a few frat guys made rude comments at him). Heck, he realized he wouldn’t even be sad if he stayed like this forever. At least, as far as he was concerned. He did realize it was unfair to Mei for him to keep this body if he had any way of giving it back. But, as of right now, that wasn’t even an option, so why not enjoy it?