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Humans of the Great Shift: Accepting Applications!

Hey y’all! Thought I’d do another quick “Humans of the Great Shift” post since it’s been forever since my last one. I’ll do a round 2 soon and I’d love your input! Let me know who you were pre-Shift and what you’re up to now and you might be featured on the next one!

Humans of the Great Shift 2

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Ayomi (22) When I came here from Nigeria, The last thing my parents said to me before I got on the plane was to not let America change who i was. (Laughs) Somehow, I do not think this was what they were imagining! I came here to study to be a doctor. I had only been on campus for a few days before the Great Shift hit, taking me out of my Anatomy lab and placing me into the body of a woman at a Sorority event nearby. Suffice to say, I ended up studying a very different kind of anatomy that night! Thankfully, the girls at Kappa Delta have helped me adjust to my new body and all of the upkeep it takes. I even attend some of their on-campus events now when I’m not studying, but it’s still a shock to people over here when the white girl starts speaking with a thick Nigerian accent! Alan (44) It’s funny, I had been trying to break into social media for years with no luck. Now I get more views on my videos in an hour than I did my in a year pre-shift. I guess it’s all down to timing - I start...

Still time to cancel

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Mark stretched his arms above his head, feeling the weight of his new breasts shift on his chest as he slipped the tank top over his bra. He paused for a moment, anxiously adjusting the top so just the right amount of cleavage peeked out and checked his makeup in his phone camera one last time. He still had time to cancel, the thought ran through his mind. A single text would be enough, and he could just spend the night in his dorm room like any other. He toyed with the idea, nervously fretting with a strand of hair. A new habit he had picked up in the few months he had been in Sabrina’s body. Had it been that long already? He had realized he was almost halfway through the semester now, something that had seemed ages away when Sabrina had stolen his life at the start of the year, leaving him high and dry in his neighbor’s college-age body while she lived out his life free from the stress of university classes and overbearing parents. The only thing she had left him was a halfhearted ap...

Probably avoidable

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“Ok, relax, we can meet up again after you get off work today but it’s not like we’re gonna find anything new! That storm that swapped our bodies was days ago, so if you have any idea how to make it happen again i’m all ears - And yes, actually, i’ve been completely respectful of your body, and your rules. I’ve literally just been watching tv all day waiting for you to get back. You think i want to be stuck as you any longer than i have to?” Ken smiled as Arielle finally hung up the phone, lazily laying back in bed. “Thank god, i thought she’d never get off the phone. Now… Where was I?” He couldn’t blame her though. Maybe it wasn’t the most ethical thing in the world, but he had practically gone down her post-swap dos and don’ts like a checklist Do: Act like me if you have to talk with anyone. Check. He had a few slip ups at first, but as the days passed he was actually starting to get the hang of pretending to be her. Thankfully, Arielle worked from home and had made up an excuse not ...

Memory lapses

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Josh sighed, looking around his house for a suitable shirt to wear from his shrinking wardrobe before giving up and taking a seat by the stairs to catch his breath. It had seemed like the perfect opportunity: Work an online job from the US, earn in dollars, and move somewhere in Latin America where the local currency went a lot further. He had even managed to rent out a beautiful house in the historic district of town for a steal after another expat had broken his lease early and moved out unexpectedly. It had been great at first, although, he had been having second thoughts recently. His lease was coming up soon and as much as he was saving money by living in Colombia, he was starting to get worried about how quickly time was flying by. He hadn’t noticed it at first, but now it seemed like entire days would go without him remembering a single thing he’d done. The memory lapses had started about two weeks in, about the same time he started losing weight. It started off small, finding f...

Kinda being a buzzkill

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“How are you acting so calm? First i can barely contact you, now you pull up with a smile on your face like there’s nothing wrong! Do i need to remind you that if we don’t track down whoever stole our bodies and left us in these, we might never get our old lives back?” David asked, shocked at his friend’s nonchalant smile across the table. “Wake up dude, This time last week i was up to my eyes in paperwork at the office going nowhere. Now it’s the middle of the workday and I’m having brunch. I’ve never had a chance to get brunch in my life! And once we’re done here, I’m gonna put the bill on someone else’s credit card and go home to my giant house. I don’t know about you, but i’m not trading this in for my old like anytime soon! “Doesn’t your body have a husband? I can’t believe you’re ok with this!! “Grow up dude, being a trophy wife isn’t so bad actually, you wouldn’t believe how much better the sex is from this side anyways. Maybe if you got some dick in your new body you’d start wo...

Long Distance Great Shift 13: USA to Jamaica

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It was time for Joey to face the truth:   There was nothing stopping him from going home: His Identity was in place, he had regained access to his bank account, he had even received his temporary travel documents in the mail weeks ago as the world slowly returned to a post-shift “normal” around him. He had every opportunity to book a flight back home and return to his old life, but… he hadn’t. And every day he procrastinated it seemed less and less likely that he would.  The Truth was, the Great Shift had landed him in paradise on earth, literally. He had gone to bed in his cramped studio apartment in New York and woken up in a beachside resort in Jamaica in the body of one of its staff members. Seeing as there were no flights off the island, he had managed to negotiate a deal with one of the resort’s owners once the initial shock of waking up in a strange woman’s body had worn off. Tourism had ground to a halt as countries around the world slowly regained control of the situa...