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Post-Shift Street Interviews 3

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  The third in a series of street interviews with real people to see how they’ve adapted to the Great Shift! (Photo for internal use only. Not for distribution) How did the Great Shift affect me? Wait, this    isn’t live, is it? My parents don’t know I’m out    this late. No? Alright, I’ll do it if you don’t run my photo along with it. Ever since the Shift put me in my neighbors body, my parents have been watching me like a hawk making sure I “Respect her body” until they find a way to swap back. Like we’re ever going to swap back, hello? The woman in my body’s doing just fine as a teenage boy now, I even saw her bring a girl over to the house a while back. So I figured, you know, If she can do it why can’t I? As far as my parents know, I’m going to support meetings twice a week in the evenings. It’s practically the only alone time I get. What, it’s not like I’m lying to them? I just forgot to mention that these meetings usually start off with a glass of wine in...

Work wife

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“Knock knock, coworker!” Adam leaned against the doorway flirtily, grinning as he saw Ashley look up from her desk, returning the smile. “Wanna get lunch? I got some post-shift gossip for you! Apparently someone spotted Jess-Sorry, *James* in Accounting out on a date on saturday with that manager that ended up in his secretary’s body! Adam almost didn’t want to admit it, but secretly, at least a small part of him was a little thrilled that the Great Shift had landed him in the body of his coworker Ashley while she had ended up in his. They had been almost inseparable ever since she started working at his office last year. Of course, he could never admit it to his girlfriend but he had developed a killer crush on her in the meantime, to the point where he looked forward to going into the office every morning just so he could see her more.  Well, now he’d be seeing a lot more of her. At the office, at home, in the shower, every time he looked in the mirror…  His relationship had...

First moments of the Great Shift

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“Oh my God, no, this can’t be right…” Alex stood rooted to the street, entranced by the two inch tall reflection in the compact mirror he now found himself holding. More specifically, at the gorgeous black woman in the reflection now copying his every move. A few moments ago, he had been off the street, in an office building four floors up as he printed out papers by the copy machine for a meeting. Now, he was suddenly standing on the sidewalk, the blink of an eye being all the time the Great Shift had needed to push his mind out of his body and into the body of a random passerby on the street below, a woman who had stopped for a moment to check her makeup before walking into the modeling agency downstairs. Still in shock, Alex licked his lips, the faint taste of cherry lip gloss sticking to his tongue as the woman in the mirror did the same. All at once, he began taking into account all the strange sensations now registering across his unfamiliar new body: the slight stickiness of the...

Humans of the Great Shift 3

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  Isac (23) “Alright kiddos, I’ll pick you up at 3 ok? be good for the teacher!” “Sorry about that, anyways, where were we? It’s funny, i didn’t exactly expect to be raising a family at 23. I mean, i was fresh out of college, dating a few girls here and there but nothing long-term. I always figured that would be a “later in life” kinda thing. To be fair though, i didn’t exactly plan on the Great Shift putting me in the body of a 40 year old asian woman when i was out at the store getting groceries either. Didn’t exactly help that i have no idea what happened to the woman I swapped into - Maybe she’s in a baby’s body or something, i heard that could happen. Anyways, she had her two kids along with her when it happened and it wasn’t like i could just abandon them. Funnily enough the twins ended up in each others’ bodies so I don’t think they even realized what happened! I ended up taking them to    my new body’s house to see if anyone she knew would pick them up, but when n...

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...

Thanksgiving Swap: Marcus

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“Oh God, what the hell has she done now?” Marcus thought, his mind racing to explain what he was seeing in front of him. Staring face to face with his own daughter in the mirror, Marcus’s first thought was that some kind of freaky friday-like event had swapped his mind with Anaya’s in order to teach each other more about empathy or whatever that movie was about - The two had been at odds with each other ever since Shayne had come home from college for Thanksgiving break, bickering like usual over her choice of clothes, her falling grades, and the fact that she seemed more interested in planning events with her sorority than going to class consistently. Their latest argument had been over the outfit she had picked out for Thanksgiving dinner, something he had deemed way too revealing for a family event and all but forced her upstairs to change while he busied himself setting out the food for the rest of the guests. He paced back and forth for a few more minutes, working up the courage t...

Vacation Roulette

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Ever since Eric had come into possession of the Medallion of Zulu, he had been using it as an escape from his daily life. All it took was touching the medallion to a piece of clothing worn by someone else, and it could change his body into a perfect replica of whoever had worn it last. He worked from home most days, and it wasn’t uncommon for him to spend days at a time as someone else: Friends, neighbors, anybody whose clothes he could get his hands on. So much so, that his usual bodies had started to get boring. He needed to step up his game if he wanted to keep the excitement fresh, and he had the perfect idea to spice it up: A game he liked to call vacation roulette.   The rules were simple: He booked a flight somewhere, brought nothing but his ID and the clothes on his back, and swiped a piece of unclaimed luggage off the carousel on his way out the airport. After he checked into his hotel, all he had to do was press the medallion onto some clothing from the suitcase, and he h...

Medallion of Zulo: Stuck

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“Oh shit…” Kevin’s smile froze on his face as he reached his car only to find the back window shattered and its contents clearly gone through. “Shit, shit, shit, this can’t be happening!” He shouted as he ran to unlock the door, frantically searching the backseat for the only thing in there he cared about, a small duffel bag with an ornate medallion inside of it, but it was no use. The bag was gone, stolen by some petty thief who had no idea the magnitude of the find he had just lucked into. Kevin had found the medallion weeks ago, a recent come-up at a thrift store that had caught his eye. It hadn’t been until he got home and accidentally turned into a copy of his roommate that he truly realized the power of what he had just bought. The medallion, when pressed into one’s hand along with a piece of clothing, was able to transform the holder into a perfect copy of whoever had last worn those clothes, using up its power for the next twelve hours or so before it was able to be used again....

Doing college all over again

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“I shouldn’t be saying this,” Joe thought as he admired his body in the mirror one last time before heading out, “But god i hope Kendra never wants to swap back.   If he thought about it, he knew he should have been mad at the situation he was in. I mean, who wouldn’t be? His college age neighbor wanted to get a jump start on life and decided the best way to do it was to swap bodies with the 30 year old man next door. Better yet, She had done it during summer break the night before she was due to return back to class, giving Joe a very disorienting morning wake-up . His first few hours post-swap had involved a woman he had pieced together as his mother shouting at him for sleeping through some alarm before throwing some bags in the back of her minivan and shuttling Joe down to the airport for an 8am flight, barely letting him get a word in edgewise as she worried to herself about how close they were to missing Kendra’s flight back to campus. Over the next 4 hours, Joe had nothing e...

Pretending to be his date

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“Wow, I know you agreed to pretend to be my date for my reunion but… Damn! I had no idea you were hiding those” Mike exclaimed, struggling to keep his eyes off of his friend’s body “Hey, just because i usually wear hoodies and sweatpants doesn’t mean a girl can’t dress up every once in a while! Austin laughed, clearly enjoying the effect he had on his friend. “Although, at some point we should probably address why the only female friend you felt comfortable asking was the roommate that caught the Gender Virus…”  “Sorry, right, i know it’s awkward but i know Sarah’s gonna be there and i gotta make her jealous that i moved on from her so quickly. I owe you one!” Mike responded. “Anyways, this is a favor to you so let’s go over the ground rules: no groping, squeezing, or staring for too long. you get one kiss on the lips for the night so choose your timing wisely, and you’re buying all my drinks for the night. Got it?” Mike nodded, still clearly distracted by the view in front of him....

Won the shift lottery

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As wrong as it sounded to think it, Max felt like he had won the Great Shift lottery. The shift struck during one of his midday meetings with upper management at his company - A whole boardroom filled with rich old men and he happened to end up in the body of a model auditioning for a photoshoot for the advertising agency two floors down. He had tried calculating the odds before, but in the end, all that mattered to him was that In the blink of an eye, he went from being a balding, middle aged white man to having the body of a gorgeous black woman half his age!   Once he got used to dealing with all the maintenance that went into keeping up appearances as a woman, Max was only happy to quit his company to keep up his body’s chosen career as a model - The pay was much better than his old job, and with a body like his, it would be a sin not to show it off! Plus he didn’t mind the added benefit of working around male models all day - A couple of office relationships never hurt anybody...

A little fun

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I could almost feel the virus rushing through my bloodstream, changing everything about me as it went. A drunken kiss with a girl at the bar was all it took to pass it on to me, a few seconds of pleasure that would end up stripping me of any traces of masculinity i had. My lips are a little softer today. It’s a small change in the grand scheme of things, but i guess it’s the little things that stick out the most when you’ve already changed so much. They’re more sensitive now than they were before, bigger too. I purse them into a pout in the mirror, trying to link the features i see to my mental image of myself. It’s hard to believe I had been a man just a few days ago when i looked at myself now. Everything, from the curve of my lips to my soft, glowing skin denied that now. I wasn’t even white anymore, my skin darkening more every day until it settled on a rich bronze, one that better matched my new black features. Not a trace of the old me was left. Even my eyes looked different; Sof...