Below
is an excerpt from "A Better Man"
from DEAD
SOULS published by Shocklines
Press.
Copyright 2003 by David G. Barnett
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Tony
wanted nothing more than to be normal. But he kept changing. He had been
for some time now and he couldnt stop it. Yesterday he had been
a twelve-year-old girl. Tony
had woken up lost in his own clothes. He had woken up smaller before,
but never this small. When he sat up his T-shirt covered his body like
a tent. His shorts fell off as soon as he stood and his watch fell to
the floor with a loud clunk. Oh,
great, he thought when he stood on his tiptoes to see into the bathroom
mirror. He only managed to see himself from the neck up. Two large, doe
eyes, ice blue, stared back at him. Tonys hair fell around his face
in soft, light brown curls. He had a small, upturned nose--a little piggish.
Puffy cheeks and soft pouting lips. Well,
at least Im cute, he thought and shrugged. Unlike when he had woken
up and found himself in a collapsed bed and rolls of fat pooling out around
him. Tony didnt like being a 500-pound woman with a bladder problem.
He had lain there trying to fall asleep for hours, hoping hed wake
up normal again. Or normal in the way his fucked up life was normal. Which
wasnt very, but it wasnt wallowing around in his own filth
because he was too fat to get up. And not being able to get up meant he
couldnt go outside and meet and talk to people, live as the person
for a while. It was what he was meant to do and if he did then he would
change back to himself sooner and hopefully when he changed back this
time it would stick. So when he was stuck in bed, he was stuck there for
a long time. So, being a 500-pound woman, bedridden and filthy, sucked
because it really wasnt fair. Of course none of this was fair...
Or maybe it was. At
least in this body he could go out and see what it was like to be a little
girl for a day. So, there were times when Tony just couldnt go out
at all, but there were also the times he just didnt want to. Sometimes
he changed into someone society couldnt handle and the psychological
pain suffered from peoples stares was worse than the physical pain
he had sometimes received. Tony did have the benefit of knowing that he
wouldnt be in the body for long, but who knew what he would be next.
It could be a thousand times worse. So
being a little girl was fine. This could be fun, Tony thought while touching
the small buds of breasts on his chest. Im
blossoming into a beautiful young woman, he laughed. Then the first
cramp hit him. And the laughter stopped. Tony
dropped to his knees, screaming, Holy shit! Then another hit
and Tony was soon dry heaving over the toilet. Goddamnit!
he yelled between heaves. Of course this couldnt be easy--could
it, you fucker? And from somewhere--a distant echo trapped in Tonys
mind perhaps--Tony could hear a soft chuckling. And under his breath,
Tony said again, You fucker, as he slowly collapsed to the
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