Thought About It

Originally posted on January 23, 2014.

Joel had thought about taking his own life almost every day since the Great Shift swapped him into Laura’s body. The only thing that ever stopped him was that he felt it wouldn’t be fair to Laura. She was traumatized enough by the swap; he didn’t want to think of what it would do to her to see her own body in a coffin. And what if he did this and the next day someone found a way to swap everyone back? Still, he thought about it. A few times he came close, dangling a foot off the end of a building top. He was just having so much trouble coping. He knew he wasn’t the only one struggling; he knew he wasn’t alone, but it was just so hard being in someone else’s body...