Becoming April

"When I came to, I hurt. Everything hurt, literally everything. Opening my eyes, I found myself slumped over in the tub, completely dry. Even my tangled hair was dry. Closing my eyes again-even they hurt-I just breathed and tried to move. Straightening and gripping the sides of the tub I felt stronger than before, and the lightheadedness was gone. And my nose told me I'd pissed myself sometime after the tub had drained.

"What had that been? I'd never felt anything like it before; not even my heart attack had felt like that, like every muscle in my body had been seizing and dying. Dying couldn't hurt that bad.

"Pushing strands of hair out my face and pulled myself up onto the edge of the tub to put both feet on the tiles. Standing I kept a hand on the wall and stepped into the shower. I fumbled with the nob until the cold water hit me, and then just stood there, aching and eyes closed, as the water warmed, rinsing me off and chasing the last of my chills away. Shutting the water off I reached for a towel, missing on the first try and leaning in to grab hold and pull it to my face.

"I opened my eyes. Under the fading whole-body ache something felt really, really wrong. The towel touched bare skin on my chin and where it fell against me it abraded my nipples like I'd scraped them on something. I looked down.

"And screamed in someone else's voice."
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They're called Changelings, and Becoming April tells the story of David's sudden transformation and long, slow journey to understanding and acceptance of her new life, an exploration of gender-switch themes (and sex) with sci-fi elements. Warning: This story is sexually (and anatomically) explicit, is not about a man suddenly becoming a woman and instantly getting in touch with their inner Hot Girl, and may contain too much feels and fluff.