
This Is Not How I Imagined It (Story Idea Submitted By Anon)
Crap, I thought this would’ve worked out better. I had everything planned out to become some jock at the gym, but yet it still went wrong. I’ve always wanted to be muscular because I never was, I was on the skinny size and I couldn’t life weights or get big in any way. I tried to find many solutions to the problem but none of them ever worked, not even this one. It wasn’t until I walked into a store one day and the cashier told me to meet him in the back. I was skeptical but I went on with it and followed the cashier.
“I had the same problem as you once. But look at me now!” He said as he flexed his muscles, which were quite big. He caught my interest now. I was about to ask him how, but he interrupted me as he reached for a shelf. He grabbed some sort of glass with liquid in it. It was transparent but something was different about it.
“Just trust me, find some sort of clothing from a man you would want to be, put it on and drink this. Results will surely come. Oh and about your payment, come see me in your new body and we will talk about a price. Good luck!” That was all he said, he walked out of the back room and I never saw him again, he didn’t even go back to working as a cashier.
I knew exactly where I wanted to go. A little excited, I rushed to the nearest gym which was just some Lifetime that my dad had a membership to. I signed in and nearly ran to the locker room. I saw some guy, and man I knew that he was the one I would want to be. It was perfect. I just needed some clothes of his. There were some shorts beside him and I assumed they were his. He walked away in just a towel to the shower leaving his stuff there. I didn’t want to get caught stealing clothes so I grabbed the shorts sitting there and ran to a stall. I stripped down, I didn’t know how the liquid worked so I didn’t want to take chances. I pulled up the shorts, which were much to big for me. I held onto the shorts with one hand to keep them from slipping down, and opened the glass.
“bottoms up” I said to myself as I drank the liquid, It tasted awful. Possibly the worst thing I’ve ever drank. My body started to contort, stretching and contrasting all over. It was slightly painful, so I closed my eyes wincing from the pain. It took about a minute until the transformation was over. I opened one eye, expecting to see some muscles. I looked down slowly, seeing flab instead of muscle. I nearly tripped running out of the stall trying to see what went wrong. I found the first mirror and saw my new reflection. I was much older, fatter and hairier. I ran back to the stall looking for the glass, seeing if I missed something. There was no liquid left but there was a warning label that read:
If you are unhappy with the results, you can forget memories of your past life so you aren’t aware of what occurred and life your new life as if you have always been in your new body. Just think of the new memories of the life you now possess and let it push your old memories out.
I guess there was no going back or drinking another one of these. I didn’t want to forget just yet. In case something came up. I went back to where I found the shorts, and I saw my old body there looking down at itself, rubbing my much skinnier body. He looked up when he noticed me. He laughed at me and my misfortune. He got a much better end of this deal. I didn’t want to take it anymore. I wanted muscle not this. I grabbed the vial and read the label. It was time, I didn’t want to remember my mistake. I tried to access the memories of this guy. His name was Steven Parsons, he had a wife and three kids. The life didn’t see that bad all of the sudden. I started to smile as I remembered ‘my’ kids. The last of the memories poured in as my old memories disappeared.



